Marshalling the Troops - Tools that Facilitate the Management of Electronic Resources Yvonne Desmond, Faculty Librarian Brian Widdis, Assistant Librarian

Electronic Resources Management Issues How do we keep track? How to handle front end delivery? Challenges Exponential growth LMS geared towards print Extra tasks

CatalogueOn Shelf Checkin Order Details Print Journal

Provide Support Evaluate Monitor Title lists Administer Provide Access Usage stats Fulfillment reports Offer trial Marketing/ Sales License terms Order handling Invoices Pricing Acquire Hosting site IP Addresses Campus authentication Metasearch/ Z39.50 Durable URL Support Registration Subscription upgrades Claiming User IDs IP Changes Title Lists for packages Enforce License terms Title Changes Subscription problems Subscription problems Hardware problems Software problems Customer Service Technical Support Peter Rushworth, Ebsco Electronic Journal

So no wonder we feel like

Help is at hand Electronic Problems Electronic Solutions bring in the troops

Troops 1.Url Checker 2.Electronic resources management 3.Serials Solutions 4.Metasearching 5.Link Resolving

Url Checker Utility in LMS to report on URLS –Can schedule it to run at different times –Maintain link stability –You know before user tells you –Still in early stages

ERM Tracks –Cost, licensing,purchasing, access, holdings data, negotiation details, authentications etc Gives all the information you could need Brings together data Alerts Integrated into LMS

Serials Solutions –system to track and report full text journals in the packages –can import individual electronic journals if library provides the information –Electronic journals portal –MARC records –Reports –Analyse holdings –Usage Statistics

Metafind Imposes own search interface Single search interface Broadcast search Simultaneously searches categories Results are integrated and linked directly to the resource

What can be searched? Anything that is web based and has a search mechanism –Search engines –Websites –Databases –Z39.50 servers –Indexing/Abstracting databases

Advantages Very powerful tool Fast/Stable Easy to use Easy to profile Displays branding Positive feedback

WebBridge link resolver links one resource to one or more related resources Source + link resolver +Target = link Has to have a predictable OpenuRL »Seamless and fast linking »Exploits existing resources

Demonstration Demo

To conclude Battle is lost Need to buy in assistance Be resigned to spending % of budget One can help, all is better Integrated is best of all So that……..

In control!