Presentation for UKSG webinar, April 2013

1. Louise Cole
Kingston University

2.  Shift from print to e (both journals and books)
 E-resources – currency, convenience, reliability
 Journals important because of primary research
outputs and REF results
 Types of journal
◦ Print only / Print and e / E-only / Born digital / Freely
available / Open access or hybrid

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Commons - photo by ekai of Paik’s
‘Electronic Superhighway’

4.  Pricing models of e are changing:
◦ Historical print spend
◦ Pay per view
◦ Patron-driven (or demand-driven)
◦ Usage-based
◦ FTE based
◦ Open access/hybrid open access
◦ Chapter or article delivery
◦ Rolling archives
◦ ‘Seat-based’ pricing

5.  Resource Discovery Systems
◦ Goodbye to the A-Z …?
 Removing the distinction between the ‘type’ of
content – to just ‘content’
◦ ‘Published’ – what does this mean?
 How to reach the customer who is not physically
in front of you
 Mobile devices and apps
◦ What, where, when, how, who, why

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– OpenClipart.org

7.  Budgets often separated into ‘print’ and ‘e’
◦ Books and journals?
◦ E-books and e-journals?
◦ Databases (full-text, A&I)?
 Budgets shrinking or not keeping pace with journal
inflation and continued full VAT on e-only products
 Cost per use: value for money
 A resource, in whatever format, has to earn its
place

8.  Authentication – proxy, Shibboleth, Athens
 Browser compatibility
 Digital Rights Management (DRM)
 (Payment models …)
 Licence agreements – contract law, complex Ts &
Cs, interpretations, systems
 Licensee responsibilities

9.  PORTICO, CLOCKSS, etc.
◦ “Digital preservation” & “electronic archiving”
 Post-cancellation access (PCA)
 Definition of e-journal – ‘scholarly journal’ or
‘intellectual magazine’ only?
 Definition of digital content – music, images and
information to be downloaded or distributed
electronically
◦ Who is preserving all this? Do we have a role?

10.  Usage should not represent the be all and end all,
but data must be accessible
◦ Think about how customers use the resource and what
that represents in terms of value
 Consider how best to manage this area
◦ Time, staffing, storage, usability
 COUNTER project
 The role of the subscription agent?

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12.  Consortia are there to help – use them!
◦ Discounted pricing
◦ Central point for management of information
◦ Strength in numbers, whether local or national
◦ Products and services
 Are the consortia negotiators now in competition with the
subscription agents?

13.  The Electronic Resource Management system, or
ERM
◦ Effective management of the e-resources life cycle
◦ One place to assemble all relevant data relating to e-
content (subscribed or not)
◦ A home for links out to content, delivered through RDS or
OPAC
◦ A commercial alternative to intranets and spreadsheets
to manage e-resources
 But ‘can they fix it’?

14.  Acquisition (pricing, trials, licensing)
 Providing access (link resolvers, A-Z lists)
 Administration (URL maintenance, admin)
 Evaluation and monitoring (usage, user feedback,
software needs, incident log)

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16.  http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/03/07/e-journal