Collection Services, State Library of NSW

Online resources at the State Library of New South Wales – current status

Use surveys show clients prefer :
Online, full text, accessible from place of choice, 24/7
Other drivers
Collection Storage
NSLA Projects: collaborative collections, delivery & open borders
Accountability / best practice
Developments in thinking & practice
Clients drive move to online resources

Collection Development Policy
“ Online resources enable the Library to move beyond the traditional physical walls. The Library acquires online resources in preference to paper where practical and, where licences permit, provides access to these free of charge to registered users of the State Library onsite and remotely .”
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Changing collection expenditure priorities

eResources
Online products including 268 individual databases
More than 337,000 e-books and 45,000 full text journals online
80% or more than 200 databases now accessible to registered clients across NSW
Full text article / section requests up 49% in 10-11
Piloting article level data in TROVE for registered clients
E-books pilot

eResources: Locating

eResources: Access

eResources: EBL
SLNSW conducting an ebook pilot through EBL
EBL was chosen for:
Pricing
Level of Australian content
Appropriate access model
Results of the pilot will inform long term decisions
Authentication issues
EZProxy
Pilot commenced mid-August
12 months or until the budget runs out

eResources: EBL
Pilot set up:
Content
Australian publishers
2,500 titles at start of pilot
Material already held in Mitchell collection
Demand–driven-acquisition
No price mediation
Titles purchased on first use
Access
Catalogue records
Downloads
Maximum download period of 14 days

eResources: EBL
Usage for the first month
Number of uses
346 unique titles requested
188 titles have been purchased
979 client sessions
How they’ve been used
519 browsing sessions
152 read online sessions
309 downloads
Issues so far
Adobe Digital Editions
Android
Document supply and interlibrary loan

Future directions
New model of subscriptions to individual online journals through aggregators
Beginning discussions with PLM regarding ideas about possibility of using online talking books

Becoming a registered client

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