1. EDC PEWG meeting, Berlin, 10 – 11 June 2013
Results of the EDC PEWG Survey ‘The challenges for the EDCs’ work in the 21st century’
EDC PEWG meeting, Berlin, 10 – 11 June 2013

2. Content 1. Survey respondents 2. Use of Social Media
3. EDCs and e-books
4. On-line repositories of EU information sources
5. Conclusions

3. 1. Survey respondents
142 EDC responded: 36 % of the EDC network members

4. 2. Use of Social Media
41 % of EDCs is involved in social media. Facebook is most used.

5. 2.1 How many hours ?

6. 2.2 Why do you not use it?
Lack of human resources and time are the main factors

7. 2.3 What is communicated?

8. 2.4 Why do you use it?

9. 2.5 Are your activities successful?
YES: We reach a wider audience inside the university (students) and outside the university, (young people).
NO or NOT SURE: One-way communication, difficult to monitor feedback.

10. 2.6 Do you need support?
YES : exchange of best practices !

11. 3. EDCs and e-books The majority of EDC respondents provide access to

12. 3.1 EDCs and the EU Bookshop
More than half of the respondents provide access to e-books
However, quite a large number of EDCs (43 %) does not
provide this service

13. 3.2 Access to scholars’ digital repositories ?
YES, quite a large number (70%) of EDCs do provide access to e-books and/or e-articles from scholars’ digital repositories.

14. 3.3 What are the best sources?
Type
Source
EU institutions – all languages
EU Bookshop, Council of the EU (e-books)
Academic sources in EN
Directory of Open Access Books (
Academic sources – other languages
DI-Fusion from the Belgian university ULB, Polish Wolne Lektury
International sources
Google Books, Gutenberg Project
EDC
ArchiDok in German and English;
Spain Digital Archive in Spanish
Other
Europeana and Delicious
Free
We received more than 60 interesting sources
Type
Source
Sources in EN
Ebrary.com, Amazon.com, EBSCO e-books and the OECD library
EDC
European Sources Online Cardiff University, English
Other languages
ibuk.pl
We received 34 interesting sources

15. 3.4 Do you produce e-books?
23 EDCs have experience with the production of e-books

16. 3.5 Do you need support?
Note: answers are not mutually exclusive

17. 3.6 Do you like to participate in a forum?
Note: answers are not mutually exclusive

18. 43 EDCs have an EU repository
4. on-line repositories of EU information sources
43 EDCs have an EU repository
We received 38 interesting sources

19. 4.1 Sharing sources via ECLAS?
62 EDCs (49%) would be keen to share its database, academic research papers or repository with ECLAS

20. 4.2 Sharing sources via Driver?
87 EDCs would like to receive a guide about Driver

21. 5. Conclusions
Social Media: Best practices will be presented in the 2013 PEWG catalogue
E-books: E-book sources will be presented in the 2013 PEWG catalogue
How to prepare dedicated guidelines and exchange of best practices? Is a forum feasible?
EDC EU online repositories of information sources: EDC repositories of information sources will be presented in the 2013 PEWG catalogue
How to develop or explore further collaboration with ECLAS and Driver?

22. Analysis of Best Practices in Social Media
Group I
Veronika
Sabine
Ian
Elvira
Eirini
Group II
Vicky
Pattie
Nuno
Ivona
Group III
Sorina
Milos
Jeremy
Magda
Ruth
1, 3,5,6,11, 20,22, 23
2,4,7,10, 12,13,17a,17b, 21
8, 9, 14,15, 16, 18,19, 24