1. ESSPER - Integration of Bibliographic Data-Bases and Document Delivery
Associazione ESSPER
ESSPER - Integration of Bibliographic Data-Bases and Document Delivery
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2. The Project
ESSPER was born in 1995 on the initiative of Piero Cavaleri director of the "Mario Rostoni" Library of Carlo Cattaneo University of Castellanza and involved immediately, as members, the other Lombardy libraries specialized in economics and social subjects.
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3. A Simple Idea
ESSPER is acronym of “Economia e scienze sociali: periodici”
The plan ESSPER is based on the participation of the single libraries: the librarians create, voluntarily and without any charge, the data-base with the analytical titles of the periodicals of their libraries.
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4. Mission
The purpose is to provide instruments for information retrieval in the Italian language periodical literature for the economy and social sciences. Unlike the Angloamerican literature, we can find little news on it on the Internet.
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5. Advantages Cooperation has become an essential in the librarian’s job
There is a wide bibliographic coverage
The hard work, shared among the membership, becomes easier to do
ESSPER uses a suitable low cost technology
Money is saved, because there is no need of great investments in terms of time, human resources or sophisticated software
Libraries and librarians can provide answers to concrete requirements of their users
Possibility of creating a complex long-term project, by sharing our strength
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6. Successes
Cumulative catalogue of periodicals possessed by participating libraries and a catalogue of analytical entries of periodicals created and maintained by the members, accessible free of charge on the net
The chance to draw up a standard bibliography on-demand
The possibility of enabling free document-delivery among the participating libraries
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7. History
the data-base ESSPER law (previously implemented from the CNR) became operative
proposal for the creation of ESSPER working papers.
Writing of the Articles of association with the scope of protecting its electronic files (available for the free consultation on the net) from eventual exploitation trade
ESSPER becomes an Association
There is an annual meeting, this year was at the Ministry of Economics and Finances
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8. Library Cooperation
ESSPER constantly supports the cooperation between the participating libraries, and particularly interlibrary loan and document delivery.
It has created a rich network of relationships all around the national territory among many kinds of libraries (university libraries, documentation centers, etc.) Also one foreign library; the university Library of Lugano, situated in the Italian Canton Ticino of the Helvetic Confederation, is member of ESSPER.
ESSPER satisfies the majority of the demands for documents.
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9. Library Cooperation
The software shows the ESSPER libraries, which owns the periodicals
Every periodical is linked to the ACNP catalogue
The dates are transmitted for loading on to the ACNP periodically
ESSPER database is SFX compliant
ESSPER database can be searched via Metalib
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10. ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loans
The article visualized in the data bank can be requested automatically from one ESSPER member library
a simple "click" allows you to load and to compile the application form without having to insert the data of the article that are found automatically
The ESSPER system mantains the historical records for all transactions perfomed while using it
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11. ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loans
Functions for an automatic request for articles found in the data bank are available for:
NILDE
SBN-ILL (function in progress)
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12. ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loans
The function developed for document delivery can be used also for requesting interlibrary loans
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13. ESSPER Numbers Membership 99 Periodicals 498
Articles with an analytical entry
Numbers 21456
Titles in the union catalogue 14452
People who use alerting service 764
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14. Each User can… search by author, by titles, and by key words
select by year
know the index of the available periodicals and volumes, with the possibility of visualizing the title of a volume or a single issue and to select the details of a title
know monthly and yearly statistics about ESSPER
register for the alerting service
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15. Management
The programs allow for inserting and managing the resources in remote access on the part of participating libraries. The most demanding and onerous task is the supervision and maintenance of the server that contains the archives (situaded in the LIUC).
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16. http://www.biblio.liuc.it/biblio/essper/default.htm PCavaleri@liuc.it
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