1. Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic Facilitator: Dana Peterman Librarian for Education, Psychology, and Cognitive Sciences at UC-Irvine December 7, 2011

2. Logistics Type any question in Chat whenever you want. If you want to talk via VOIP, indicate by chat, but it can be tricky. Cheryl and Alex will try to accommodate what goes wrong, but we will try not to stop the presentation if the problem is only happening to a few of you.

3. What we’ll cover Tools to use and their strengths and weaknesses – Things I’ve tried or tried to try – What you have tried

4. Tools to use – serials holdings in databases CUFTS (http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/compare)http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/compare JISC ADAT (Academic Database Assessment Tool) Serial Solutions Overlap Analysis Tool (more for weeding) How many of you have used these? What have you used?

5. Tools to use – serials – some metrics EBSS Core Psychology Journals (www.corepsychologyjournals.org/Main.aspx) Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports/Scopus/SNIP/SJR Ulrich’s/Magazines for Libraries/LJ, etc. Look for vendors using COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) compliant statistics, such as Ebsco Cabell’s directories. YOUR subject specific favorites? Same old thing?

6. Tools to use – serials What value derived from usage or citation Impact factors, usage, cost per use, faculty use or contribution Devise your own. YOUR Tools? How are you weighting your values?

7. Tools to use - Monos WorldCat Analysis tool – Choosing peers – who and why – Pitfalls ILS and ERMs – Usage reports, license info and more Print resources What would you do?

8. Faculty/Researcher input Quality and quantity according to audience Communication cycles How much you can say Who else is involved – tell us.

9. The End Bibliography on ALA Connect Questions? Contact: dpeterma@uci.edudpeterma@uci.edu 949.824.0607