1. Haruko Nakamura Yale University Library Workshop on Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices CEAL annual meeting pre-conference workshop, 25 March 2014, Philadelphia

2. Outline Issues: Lack of resources and awareness Scarce e-resources / contents No/Poor metadata ebooks aggregated databases Lack of proper procedures and communication

3. Scarce e-resources / contents Indexing databases are still dominant Small number of e-books and e-journals Very few front list titles ( 新刊 ) are published as ebooks ↓ Majority of e-books have been already published in print and many libraries already own them. Therefore, not many libraries purchase e-books, thus they are not yet familiar with the Japanese e-book market.

4. Metadata Lack of individual links of e-journals and e-books provided Few vendors provide MARC records for OPAC Poor interface function Confusion of diverse presentation of e-resources (interfaces, access points, metadata, etc.)

5. eBooks Around 7,000 Japanese e-books available (mostly science subjects) Provides metadata in discovery tools like Summon, but… Availability of MARC records are not consistent Good MARC records, but poor interface function Transliterated headings (880 fields) Series headings Volume number Subject headings Collections base links

6. MARC record sample – Beautiful!

7. No transliterations No series headings No subject headings

8. No volume numbers “ 新日本古典文学大系 ” as series

9. No Series Headings

10. Aggregated Databases e-books and e-journals in one database No MARC records Provides metadata in discovery tools, but.. No direct links to individual titles or to several individual interfaces Insufficient metadata? No ISBN, published year, transliterated titles, etc.

17. Lack of proper procedures and communication Content updates (added, deleted and changes of titles, etc.) Who takes care of this? Communication with e- resources librarians (internal), vendors and publishers. Japanese resources in databases supplied by other countries? (ex. Medical*Online, Factiva)

18. Annals of Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences [Ja] ( 群馬保健学紀要 )

20. Other e-resource issues Certain contents are not available outside Japan Users have to install client software Difficult license agreements Usage statistics not being available Price

21. Future Access at Yale Univ. Knowledge base Discovery Service E-journal and E-book MARC records in catalog E-journal A-Z list Database A-Z list Link Resolver

22. Conclusion - Working Together With Librarians (liaison to users) and Publishers and Vendors (content creators) ↓ Increase access points of e-resources Improve awareness of e-resources among users Increase the use of e-resources Librarians can justify subscriptions of e-resources Everyone wins!