The document discusses several topics related to the transition from print to electronic resources in academic libraries. It addresses changes in pricing models for e-journals, emerging resource discovery systems, the need to reach remote users on mobile devices, challenges with budgets and demonstrating value. It also touches on issues like digital rights management, preservation of electronic content, the role of consortia, and electronic resource management systems.

1. Louise Cole
Kingston University

2.  Shift from print to e (both journals and books)
 E-resources – currency, convenience, reliability
 Journals important because of primary research
outputs and REF results
 Types of journal
◦ Print only / Print and e / E-only / Born digital / Freely
available / Open access or hybrid

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‘Electronic Superhighway’

4.  Pricing models of e are changing:
◦ Historical print spend
◦ Pay per view
◦ Patron-driven (or demand-driven)
◦ Usage-based
◦ FTE based
◦ Open access/hybrid open access
◦ Chapter or article delivery
◦ Rolling archives
◦ ‘Seat-based’ pricing

5.  Resource Discovery Systems
◦ Goodbye to the A-Z …?
 Removing the distinction between the ‘type’ of
content – to just ‘content’
◦ ‘Published’ – what does this mean?
 How to reach the customer who is not physically
in front of you
 Mobile devices and apps
◦ What, where, when, how, who, why

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7.  Budgets often separated into ‘print’ and ‘e’
◦ Books and journals?
◦ E-books and e-journals?
◦ Databases (full-text, A&I)?
 Budgets shrinking or not keeping pace with journal
inflation and continued full VAT on e-only products
 Cost per use: value for money
 A resource, in whatever format, has to earn its
place

8.  Authentication – proxy, Shibboleth, Athens
 Browser compatibility
 Digital Rights Management (DRM)
 (Payment models …)
 Licence agreements – contract law, complex Ts &
Cs, interpretations, systems
 Licensee responsibilities

9.  PORTICO, CLOCKSS, etc.
◦ “Digital preservation” & “electronic archiving”
 Post-cancellation access (PCA)
 Definition of e-journal – ‘scholarly journal’ or
‘intellectual magazine’ only?
 Definition of digital content – music, images and
information to be downloaded or distributed
electronically
◦ Who is preserving all this? Do we have a role?

10.  Usage should not represent the be all and end all,
but data must be accessible
◦ Think about how customers use the resource and what
that represents in terms of value
 Consider how best to manage this area
◦ Time, staffing, storage, usability
 COUNTER project
 The role of the subscription agent?

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12.  Consortia are there to help – use them!
◦ Discounted pricing
◦ Central point for management of information
◦ Strength in numbers, whether local or national
◦ Products and services
 Are the consortia negotiators now in competition with the
subscription agents?

13.  The Electronic Resource Management system, or
ERM
◦ Effective management of the e-resources life cycle
◦ One place to assemble all relevant data relating to e-
content (subscribed or not)
◦ A home for links out to content, delivered through RDS or
OPAC
◦ A commercial alternative to intranets and spreadsheets
to manage e-resources
 But ‘can they fix it’?

14.  Acquisition (pricing, trials, licensing)
 Providing access (link resolvers, A-Z lists)
 Administration (URL maintenance, admin)
 Evaluation and monitoring (usage, user feedback,
software needs, incident log)

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16.  http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/03/07/e-journal