1.
On the road to complete
interactive reading lists …..

2.
Agenda
• Background
• Phase I - The Talis Aspire Reading
Lists (TARL) implementation process
• Presentation of TARL
• Bumps and Benefits
• Phase II - Copyright clearing and
digitisation
• Phase III – Seamless workflow and
complete reading lists

3.
Background
• Norwegian HE institutions survey
(2011): Course material print or
digital?
• How to find reading lists and course
material?
• Licensed information resources
• Norwegian HE institutions project
(2013-14): Reading list system
• Spesification of requirement
• Market overview

4.
Phase I
The Talis Aspire Reading Lists (TARL)
implementation process

5.
Starting point
• A «home made» course
management system handling the
workflow, access controll
according to roles, and plain text
reading lists
• Activities: course development,
course approval, library review,
bookshop reports
• Participants: Academics, program
administration, approval
committee, library

6.
Detours:
BI project (2014-): New course management system
– including reading list
• Lotus Notes: Outdated and expanded to its limits
• Needs assessment: Requirement
• Analysing process and workflow: Policy
• Creating a system based on Sharepoint –
rejected spring 2015
• CourseLeaf from Leep Frog – rejected summer
2016
• EmWeb – integration started september 2016

7.
Implementation process
• Test site - May 2014
• Signing agreement - January 2015
• Configuration and setup - March 2015
• Talis training: Webinar and workshop - April/May 2015
• Internal training: Libguide and drop-in-workshops - June 2015
• Import from LN to TARL: June - October 2015
• Rolled out to students - October 2015
• New setup with Alma - January 2016
• Book chapter registration - January 2016
• EmWeb integration - October 2016

8.
Organizing the implementation
Main project
• TARL integration with
Course management
system
Library
• Project owner
• Project leader
• Configuration
• Content
• Training
• Integration
Program administration
• Workflow
• Content
• Reports
IT
• Autentication
• Roles
Course
management
process
Course
management
system (EmWeb)
TARL
Copyright &
digitisation

9.
Training and list creation
• Template
• Step-by-step instructions
• LibGuide
• Drop-in workshops
• Library review
• Update instructions for lecturers

10.
Talis Aspire Reading Lists
• Assemble all course material in one place
• Harvest metadata
• Integration with Library Discovery (Primo)
• Linking to licensed e-resources
• Linking to other digital resources (open access, law,
government, Youtube..)
• (Integration with online bookshop)
• (Licensing and digitisition – Talis Aspire Digitised Content)

11.
TARL live demo
• Examples:
• MAN 3115
• GRA 6838
• GRA 2203
• GRA 2416
• ENT 3501
• readinglists.bi.edu

12.
Content 2016/2017
• 637 lists
• 4700 items
• 2200 books
• 580 chapters
• 1000 articles
• 70 webpages/websites

13.
A black distribution hole named Itslearning

14.
User analytics:
Sessions per day at start of term

15.
Benefits
• Student experience: More accessible course material
• Academics experience … so far
• Visibility and marketing lisenced information resources –
optimised use
• Metadata quality
• Library aquisition
• Analytics

16.
Bumps
• Strict workflow and quality control when it
comes to course distribution – including
reading lists
• BI spesific and Norway spesific issues
• Changing library management system to Alma
• Integration with course management system –
API for draft lists
• Not access to configuration, settings, running
jobs
• Reports: Merging TARL reports with other data

17.
Strategy for solving the challenges
• Adjust to system or system adjust to us?
Priorities – the most important issues to solve.
• Work with Talis to develop APIs,
authentication setup etc.
• Raise support tickets
• Clean-up manually
• Involve participants with different competence
and skills
• Reorganize

18.
Phase II
Copyright clearing and digitisation

19.
Norwegian copyright legislation
• Kopinor higher education license
• Copy up to 15 pro cent of a book (UK and DK 10 pro cent)
• Reporting all use of book chapters is mandatory
• Licensing use exceeding 15 pro cent
• BOLK: Reporting and licensing book chapters
• Run a pilot reporting use of chapters – spesification of
requirement
• Pree licensing exceeding 15 pro cent

20.
Where we want to go…
• Identify specifications of requirements from Kopinor for
automatic reporting of use of book chapters up to 15%
• Clarify Kopinor conditions regarding prelicensing exceeding
15%
• Establish a repository for book chapters
• Establish a seamless workflow for copyright clearance
checking
• No more printed compilations

21.
Talis Apire Digitised Content (TADC)
• Define copyright legislation
• Seamless workflow integration with TARL
• Repository for book chapters
• Automatic reports to licensing authorities in UK, AU, NZ

22.
What now
• Book chapter reports to Kopinor based on TARL
reports
• Testing TADC
• Set up Norwegian copyright legislation –
Development Partner?
• Will Norwegian publishers accept direct
prelisencing?
• National consortium – monitor activity

23.
Phase III – Seamless workflow and
complete reading lists

24.
End of the road
• Complete reading lists including
digitisitions
• Integration with the new course
management system (EmWeb) using API
• Increased student experience by library
availability integration and linking
information resources
• Marketing licensed information resources
for optimized use
• Harvest bibliographic records
• Reports, analytics, usage statistics

25.
Thank you!
Kristin Danielsen
kristin.danielsen@bi.no