IReL John FitzGerald, UCC

Content of my Presentation  IReL in a nutshell  Consortial purchasing by Irish libraries  Birth of IReL  IReL now and in the future  Implications

Origins

Title IReL…….. …..is the Irish Research e-Library (Consortium)

IReL in a Nutshell  A consortial purchasing scheme  Seven universities  Access to scientific material  Supported by SFI and HEA  Supplementary funding  3,000+ e-titles  Centrally negotiated  Centrally administered  Likely to expand

Consortial Purchasing by Libraries

Why not consortial purchasing?

Consortial Purchasing by Libraries  CHEST  JISC  JSTOR  Irish University periodicals contract  Web of Science..LION..Science Direct..Patrologia Latina..ECCO..  IReL

Consortial Purchasing by IReL Libraries  Value for money  Subscription price inflation  International exemplars (FINeLIB, Canada, JISC)  Technological progress  Emerging role of scientific research  User demand and…  User pressure on university/research funding agencies

Birth of IReL  May 2004  Science Foundation Ireland and Higher Education Authority decisions  €20M over 5 years  Universities, initially  Phase I live by December 2004  At least 2,500 titles

Birth of IReL  Publisher package model  CHIU Librarians’ Group overseeing  Negotiating agent – Content Complete Ltd.  IRIS Ltd. as the managing agent  Supplementary funding model means work!  IReL Model Licence  2-3 year licences

What’s Available Now?  ACM Portal The ACM DL (Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library) is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Click here to view full list of titles. ACM Portalfull list of titles.  American Chemical Society Publications: ACS Package The ACS was founded in 1876 and is the world's largest scientific society. Full text to over 30 peer reviewed ACS titles. Click here to view full list of titles. American Chemical Society Publications: ACS Packagefull list of titles  Annual Reviews Annual Reviews offer comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Full text. Annual Reviews  Blackwell Synergy STM Collection Full text to Blackwell's Science, Technology and Medicine Journals. Includes Economics. Blackwell Synergy STM Collection  Emerald Fulltext 42,000 searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include Management, HRM, Marketing, Librarianship, Mechanical engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Food Science.Online archive back to Click here to view full list of titles. Emerald Fulltextfull list of titles.  IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)  Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing Full text access to all of the IOP's journals, from Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing  Kluwer Journals Online Access to a vast and expanding set of full text journals from Kluwer, in most disciplines. Kluwer Journals Online  Nature Portal to full text of Nature magazine along with 17 other Nature titles. Click here to view full list of titles. Naturefull list of titles  Science Direct Full text of over 1500 journals published by Elsevier Science in all disciplines, now includes Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences titles. Science Direct  Science Online Portal to Science Magazine full text and other services such as Science Now, daily news service and Science Careers. Science Online  Scientific American Full text of every issue from 1993 to present. Scientific American  SpringerLink Full text to over 500 journals from Springer-Verlag in the Sciences, Technology and Medicine SpringerLink  Web of Knowledge The Web of Knowledge is a portal to the citation database Web of Science, which contains Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. WOK also includes 1. Essential Science Indicators, an analytical tool, giving essential science performance statistics, 2. Journal Citation Reports journal performance metrics, including Impact Factor and 3. ISI Proceedings. Web of Knowledge  Wiley Interscience Wiley Interscience Wiley Interscience provides full text online access to over 540 journals from John Wiley & Sons. Click here to view full list of titles.full list of titles.

What’s Available Now?  Access by university community via university library web-sites  Mediated by the relevant subject specialist librarians  Also: 100 directly available single titles selected by the research community

What’s to Come?  More titles, including… Biomed Central CAB Direct Crossfire Beilstein Cell Press Embase Emerald Biosis Previews Ovid Biomedical OUP RSC SciFinder Scholar Taylor & Francis Wiley

What’s to Come?  CHIU E-Resources Steering Group Monitoring Service evaluation  Increase in usage  Greater demand for information fluency  More “undergraduate research”  More funding….??

The Future  Humanities & Social Sciences proposal  Fully HEA-funded  Balanced funding for e-journals  ~€5M recurrent, ~€5M one off  Live by end of 2005?  Benefits teaching and learning, as well as research

IReL: the +ve Implications  Powerful resource for research, teaching, learning  Attract high-flyers  Promotes local academic and national socio-economic objectives  Establishes top-slicing model  Hugely popular  affirms role of the library and restores our image  Reduces physical processing

IReL: the ‘not so +ve’ Implications  Relies on external funding  Ties up local funds  Poor meta-searchability  Obscures the role of the library  Ignores print and service needs  What happens after 2008/9?  Reinforces the commercial publishing model…..

Hey, I thought you librarians were promoting open access publishing??!