Presentation given at Digital Library Conference of FGV in Rio

1. The e-only Library
Mission Impossible?!
Patrick Danowski

2. Patrick Danowski
• Computer Scienticts
• ZLB Berlin
• Staatsbiblothek zu Berlin
• CERN Library
• IST Austria
Map by Open Street Map

3. Patrick Danowski
• Library 2.0
• Open Access
• Creative Commons Licences
• Repositories
• Open Linked Data
• Open Source

4. IST Austria
• research institute
• basic research
• Campus opened 2009
• Goal: Excellent research in Austria

5. Maps by Open Street Map

6. IST Austria 2010
• Employes: 50 (20 Scientists)
• Books: 0
• eJournals: 500

7. IST Austria 2014
• Employes: 400 (280 Scientists)
• Books: ~1000
• eJournals: ~ 5800

8. Areas of Research
• Chemistry
• Computer Graphics / Vision
• Cryptography
• Evaluation Biology
• Math
• Molecular Biology
• Neuroscience
• Physics
• Plant Science
• Statistics
• Theoretically Computer
Science

9. Good Morning, Special-Librarian Ethan Hunt,
your mission, if you should you choose to accept it:
Build an e-only library
for our researchers
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10. The Team

11. !
James:
Journal
Expert
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Chris
Book
Expert
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Claudia:
Scientists
Expert
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12. Mission Report &
Obstacles

13. James: eJournals
• Market well established
• exeptance rate in Science
very high
• no discussions
• all journals subscripted eOnly
Success!
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14. Claudia: Tradition
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15. Claudia: Working processes
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16. Chris: not available
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17. Example
• Basic Text Book in Molecular
Biology
• Published by Garland Science
• owned bei Taylor & Francis
• no e-Version available
• Our library hold 5 copies
(C) Garland Science

18. 4.Price models
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19. Models
• Packages
• Evidence Based Acquisition
• Patron Driven Acquisition
• Aggregator
• Pick and Choose
• …

20. 5. Different usage
Cory Doctorow
A thoroughly annotated MAKERS, McNally Jackson, Soho, NYC, NY, USA
https://flic.kr/p/85LMDD
romana klee
#360 perhaps you do not need
to write all over library books
https://flic.kr/p/95PJke

21. Conclusions
• Scientists still like books
• Print is (sometimes) still needed
• Usage, working process and reading is
changing but totally change yet

22. Conclussion
A hybrid library is needed to fulfill all user needs

23. Mission aborted…
for now…

24. Please Wait
Restart coming soon

25. To be continued …

26. Questions?
Comments?
patrick.Danowski@ist.ac.at
@patrickd
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