INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EJOURNAL MANAGEMENT Evelinde Hutzler University

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN E-JOURNAL MANAGEMENT Evelinde Hutzler, University Library Regensburg Don Panzera, Library of Congress ALA, Boston 2005

Presentation Overview • The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) -Electronic Journals Library -- and the Library of Congress • Cooperative e-journal management in the EZB • EZB user functionality • EZB and vascoda • Joint project • Q&A/Discussion ALA, Boston 2005 2

EZB is a Cooperative Library Service…. • Developed and managed by the University Library Regensburg, Germany • Supported by German Research Foundation and Federal Ministry of Education and Research. • 291 members: 290 European, 1 North American ALA, Boston 2005 3

…Building Access through Collaboration • Constant enlargement of the title content • Cooperative collection of the e-journals • Tools for license and access information administration for each of 291 EZB member institutions • Integration of local requirements ALA, Boston 2005 4

Collaboratively Maintaining the Database • Collaborative maintenance of the bibliographic metadata • Effective updating of the URLs • Saving of labor for each EZB member • High database quality and user satisfaction ALA, Boston 2005 5

LC’s “Sutton Strategy” • EZB Database = Research value – 20, 600 e-journals • 8, 000 full text at no direct cost • 2, 300 born digital – supplementary 21, 000 titles in aggregator databases ALA, Boston 2005 6

Exchanging Digital for Print? • LC exchange receipts in 2004 = 32% of the 1994 total • LC/ELAD’s serial exchange receipts dropped by 8000 titles – 50%+ -- between 1998 and 2004 • How many have gone digital? ALA, Boston 2005 7

Scholarly Communication & the EZB free e-journal database • • • Academic publishers: 35% Non-profit organizations: 30% Governments: 9% Commercial publishers: 12% Corporations: 6% “Other”: 8% ALA, Boston 2005 8

Non-Commercial Content. … • EZB freely accessible e-journals – Place of publication: • • • Germany: 24% U. S. : 23% 19 other countries: 53% – Language • English: 46% • German: 30% • Spanish: 15% • 6 Other: 9% ALA, Boston 2005 9

EZB Membership Has Its Rewards • Free access to the EZB database • Persistent URLs • License and holdings data from the other 290 members • E-journal metadata: MARC 21 bibliographic records from the Deutsche Bibliothek • Contact with other German national and research libraries ALA, Boston 2005 10

EZB Costs • Direct cost of membership: $0. • Database maintenance: . 25 FTE • Other membership responsibilities: . 25 FTE ALA, Boston 2005 11

E-Journal Management • EZB collaborative e-journal management • EZB user functionality • EZB as part of digital libraries – Connection between EZB and library catalogs – EZB Linking in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 12

EZB user functions EZB offers: • Stuctured access to scholarly e-journals • Freely available e-journals together with licensed ones under a standardized user interface • Browsing in subject and alphabetical lists • Search functions • User information about access ALA, Boston 2005 13

Browsing by subject lists 41 subjects ALA, Boston 2005 14

Biological e-journals ALA, Boston 2005 15

Direct link to the homepage Direct link to the journal homepage ALA, Boston 2005 16

Access Information access information ALA, Boston 2005 17

License / Access Information Access information in the EZB is shown by a traffic light symbol Green: free e-journal the full texts are freely available Yellow: licensed for the library full texts can be accessed by the institutional users Red: without a subscription full text access is not possible Yellow/Red: The institution has no continuous subscription on this journal. Therefore, only some of the published volumes are accessible as full texts. ALA, Boston 2005 18

Readme links provide detailed access and user information ALA, Boston 2005 19

EZB search functions ALA, Boston 2005 20

EZB web pages for each member EZB / University Library Regensburg EZB / Library of Congress Local access information for each EZB member ALA, Boston 2005 21

EZB as part of digital libraries • Link between the EZB and library catalogs • Connection between EZB and digital libraries, e. g. vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 22

Linking to library catalogs From the catalog entry via persistent URL to the EZB to the journal homepage ALA, Boston 2005 23

EZB and vascoda • vascoda: interdisciplinary internet portal for scholarly information in Germany (www. vascoda. de) • vascoda is the nucleus of the German Digital Library • Partners of vascoda – More than 40 rsearch libraries, technical information centers and other information institutions – EZB is a partner of vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 24

Connecting vascoda and EZB From the search in vascoda digital libraries ALA, Boston 2005 25

EZB linking in vascoda to the result list in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 26

EZB linking in vascoda From the result list in vascoda via EZB Link ALA, Boston 2005 27

EZB Linking to the EZB License information for the article Link to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005 28

EZB Article Linking From EZB to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005 29

EZB Linking via Open URL • EZB connects bibliographic references to full texts in e-journals • EZB informs users about the accessibility of the article • EZB links to the full texts in e-journals on various levels – Deep article linking for 8. 000 e-journals – Linking to issues, volumes or to the journal home page – Linking to free and licensed full texts ALA, Boston 2005 30

International Electronic Exchange (IEX) Pilot Project • Purpose: Share the burden of obtaining, maintaining, preserving, and providing ongoing access to information products of research value – Reduce processing costs – Provide more timely access • Scope: Government e-journals ALA, Boston 2005 31

IEX Participants • Library of Congress • U. S. Government Printing Office • (NLM) • (NAL) • Die Deutsche Bibliothek • State Library in Berlin • EZB • (Bavarian State Library) ALA, Boston 2005 32

IEX Pilot Project • Objectives: – Exchange access to content – Exchange intellectual property rights to enable downloading and maintenance – Exchange pertinent metadata – Develop (more) interoperable IT systems – Cooperative reference service ALA, Boston 2005 33

Why Germany? • EZB partnership • Interest on the part of the national libraries • Develop a business model that will work for other national libraries ALA, Boston 2005 34

Thank you for your attention ! • Contact / LC – Don Panzera Library of Congress e-mail: dpan@lov. gov • Contact / EZB – Dr. Evelinde Hutzler University Library Regensburg e-mail: evelinde. hutzler@bibliothek. uni-regensburg. de URL of EZB: www. bibliothek. uni-regensburg. de/ezeit/ ALA, Boston 2005 35