2.  Done in a number of ways: › Title by title › Publisher packages (electronic only) › Consortial ‘deals’ (electronic only  OCUL (Ontario Council of University Libraries)  CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

3.  Title by title - Done by Librarians with collections responsibilities  Trials – for large ticket items  Publishers’ Packages/Consortial deals: › OCUL– negotiated under the leadership of an interested institution. › CRKN – negotiated based on perceived interest of members

4.  Level - does the publication contain substantive articles of a sufficiently high standard? (dependent on type of library)  Demand - is the publication already being requested or is it likely to be in the future?  Cost - some very expensive serials may not be bought without evidence of present and continuing use.

5.  Availability elsewhere - certain categories of material are available in other collections (e.g. patent related material, newspapers, maps) and are therefore not systematically collected.  Access – is this a subscription or perpetual access? (price differences)

6.  FULL TEXT!!!!!  Same criteria as print  OCUL – local load permissions  CRKN – local load permissions  Why Local Load?????

9.  SFX open URL linking  Refworks  ODESI (repository for raw statistics)  Ontario Government Publications archive  RACER (InterLibrary Loan service)

10.  Done only for packages of serials or large ticket databases, etc.  History – Librarians were wimps

11. TO:

13.  Practice, practice, practice  Negotiate things other than publisher prices – practice on your mother, your partner, flea markets!!!

14.  Get to know the book and serials business just as well as you would expect your vendor to understand the library profession.  Anderson, Rick (2004) Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services. New Yourk, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishing, p. 155

15.  A company who acts as an intermediary between publishers and the library for serials and monographs.  Serials – they manage the process › Place orders with a wide variety of publishers › Claim for missing issues or links that won’t work › Provide a single invoice for subscription renewals › Ejournal licence management › Other services both free and paid › Charge service fee for this work

16.  Displays: › A-Z list outside of the catalogue › Integrated into the catalogue

19.  ERM (Electronic Resource Management)  MARC Record Service (ex. Serials Solutions)  Title by title – only if there are a small number of titles in your catalogue

20.  Over 55,000 ejournals (and growing)  Over 480,000 ebooks (and growing)  12 staff members supporting our e- resources directly  Western Libraries policy is to acquire e- journals if available over print

24.  Some will remain in paper  Most large publishers have already gone digital  Popular magazines will stay in paper format until new technologies change people’s minds and habits