Marshalling the Troops Tools that Facilitate the Management

Marshalling the Troops - Tools that Facilitate the Management of Electronic Resources Yvonne Desmond, Faculty Librarian Brian Widdis, Assistant Librarian

Electronic Resources Management Issues How do we keep track? How to handle front end delivery? Challenges Exponential growth LMS geared towards print Extra tasks

Print Journal Details On Shelf Catalogue Order Checkin

Electronic Journal License terms Offer trial Pricing Marketing/ Sales Fulfillment reports Order handling Invoices Hosting site Registration Acquire IP Addresses Title lists Usage stats Evaluate Monitor Campus authentication Provide Access Metasearch/ Z 39. 50 Subscription problems Hardware problems Software problems Customer Service Technical Support Peter Rushworth, Ebsco Provide Support Durable URL Support Administer User IDs IP Changes Subscription upgrades Claiming Title Lists for packages Enforce License terms Title Changes

So no wonder we feel like

Help is at hand Electronic Problems Electronic Solutions • bring in the troops

Troops 1. Url Checker 2. Electronic resources management 3. Serials Solutions 4. Metasearching 5. Link Resolving

Url Checker • Utility in LMS to report on URLS – Can schedule it to run at different times – Maintain link stability – You know before user tells you – Still in early stages

ERM • Tracks – Cost, licensing, purchasing, access, holdings data, negotiation details, authentications etc • • Gives all the information you could need Brings together data Alerts Integrated into LMS

Serials Solutions – system to track and report full text journals in the packages – can import individual electronic journals if library provides the information – Electronic journals portal – MARC records – Reports – Analyse holdings – Usage Statistics

Metafind • Imposes own search interface • Single search interface • Broadcast search • Simultaneously searches categories • Results are integrated and linked directly to the resource

What can be searched? • Anything that is web based and has a search mechanism – Search engines – Websites – Databases – Z 39. 50 servers – Indexing/Abstracting databases

Advantages • • • Very powerful tool Fast/Stable Easy to use Easy to profile Displays branding Positive feedback

Web. Bridge • link resolver • links one resource to one or more related resources • Source + link resolver +Target = link • Has to have a predictable Openu. RL » Seamless and fast linking » Exploits existing resources

Demonstration • Demo

To conclude • • • Battle is lost Need to buy in assistance Be resigned to spending % of budget One can help, all is better Integrated is best of all So that……. .

In control!