1. Libraries Australia and Online Resources Rob Walls Director Database Services Branch

2. Electronic Resources Australia National consortium to purchase online resources 9 products –General Reference –News and Business –Health Over 370 libraries or consortia responded to the product poll Over 2,200 product expressions of interest http://era.nla.gov.au/

3. Discovery and Access CEO response to Customer Satisfaction Survey Libraries Australia to support discovery and access Improving access: free and commercial resources

4. Why contribute e-resources End users may have access to the material Onsite access may still be available Supports the sharing of metadata for electronic materials between libraries Contributed records support re-use in other services Provides library managers and planners with a better picture of trends in the library sector

5. NBD Coverage 746,964 records flagged as e-resources Growing at 50,000 records per year 150,073 of these represent Australian resources

7. Expand coverage Revised guidelines for cataloguing electronic resources http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/dg_raer.html Australian e-collections Serials Solutions agreement Other sources of e-resource data Contracts with ERA vendors include supply of MARC records to the NBD

8. Expand links to full-text Embed URLs for full-text resources in major digitisation projects (e.g. Google book search) Improve support for institution specific URLs Inclusion of article/track level data Inclusion of Destra data