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Le 2 octobre prochain (13h-14h30), NISO organise un webinar portant sur SUSHI (Beyond Trial Into Real Use). Informations et inscription ici.

Fin mai 08 ce sont tenues les journées ERMS du groupe de travail français de Couperin en charge de cette problématique, le GTERMS. "La réflexion sur les ERMS au sein du consortium a visé à : - dresser un état de l’art des dispositifs actuels de gestion et des solutions proposées par divers prestataires, - proposer plusieurs scénarios adaptés à la situation des membres de Couperin." Programme et comptes-rendus disponibles ici.

Holly Yu, Scott Breivold (éd.), Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice, California State University, Los Angeles (E.-U.), 2008, 416 p. (ISBN: 978-1-59904-891-8) A pronounced move from print subscriptions to electronic resources in all types of libraries has fundamentally impacted the library and its users. With the influx of resources such as e-journals; e-books; index, abstract, and/or full-text databases; aggregated databases; and others, the shift to electronic resources is rapidly changing library operational and organizational procedures. Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, theories, and challenges connected with the provision of electronic resources in libraries, with emphasis on strategic planning, operational guidelines, and practices. This book primarily focuses on management practices of the life-cycle of commercially acquired electronic resources from selection and ordering to cataloging, Web presentation, user support, usage evaluation, and more. Via liste ERIL-L (01/05/08)

White Paper on Interoperability between Acquisitions Modules of Integrated Library Systems and Electronic Resource Management Systems: un document de la DLF (Digital Library Federation). "The following white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The first section of the paper features four case studies: UCLA, Cornell University, the Tri-College Consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, & Swarthmore Colleges, and the Library of Congress. Each case highlights the library’s institutional environment, consortium considerations, systems architecture (ILS, ERMS, and link resolver), and electronic resource workflows." Via DigitalKoans

Pour mes collègues ERM / BICfB: PRG (Primary Research Group) va publier une enquête (payante) sur les pratiques des bibliothèques en matière de licences concernant les ressources électroniques. "The study presents data from 90 libraries – corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries – about their database licensing practices. More than half of the participating libraries are from the USA, and the rest are from Canada, Australia, the UK, and other countries. Data is broken out by type and size of library, we well as for overall level of database expenditure. The 100+ page study, with more than 400 tables and charts, presents benchmarking data enabling librarians to compare their library’s practices to peers in many areas related to licensing. Metrics provided include: percentage of licenses from consortiums, spending on consortium dues, time spent seeking new consortium partners, number of consortium memberships maintained; growth rate in the percentage of licenses obtained through consortiums; expectation for consortium purchases in the future; number of licenses, growth rate in the number of licenses, spending on licenses for directories, electronic journals, e-books, and magazine/newspaper databases; future spending plans on all of the above; price inflation experienced for electronic resources in business, medical, humanities, financial,market research, social sciences and many other information categories; price inflation for e-books, electronic directories, journals, and newspaper/magazine databases; percentage of licenses that require passwords; percentage of licenses that have simultaneous access restrictions; spending on legal services related to licenses, percentage of libraries that have threatened to sue a database vendor; percentage of libraries that have been threatened with suits by database vendors; number of hours spent in reviewing license contracts; percentage of contracts that require contract terms be kept secret; level of awareness of the terms of other libraries contracts; contract terms regarding inter-library loan; success rates in seeking changes in license contracts;percentage of libraries that have paid an article processing fee or received a rebate as compensation for open access; number of articles obtained through digital repositories; planned development of digital repositories; use of journal archives provided for free after an embargo period; use of Google Scholar; percentage that report loss of perpetual access to journal archives; percentage of journal contracts that guarantee perpetual access; use of grants for financing databases; use of charge backs and departmental contributions to finance database licensing; percentage that outsource copyright clearance; plans for the elimination of paper-base course reserves; expectations for renewing current database subscriptions; number of databases tried on a free trial basis; rated reliability of usage statistics obtained from database vendors; staff time spent on service interruption issues." Quelques tendances: "• Mean spending by corporate and legal libraries in the sample on Ebook licenses was $48,000. • The mean number of independent licenses for electronic content held by the libraries in the sample tripled from 2000 to 2007. • 19.42% of the licenses held by the libraries in the sample restricted the number of simultaneous users. • Consortium purchases accounted for a mean of 30% of the database licenses by the libraries in the sample. • College/university libraries’ single largest consortium partner accounted for a mean of just over 41% of contracts, twice as much as for public or government and non-profit libraries. • Participants reported spending an average of $7,300 on dues and fees to consortiums. • Libraries reported mean price increases for full text and newspaper and magazine databases of 9.43% in the past year. • The mean reported annual increase in the price of medical and biochemical information was 8.13. • Participants estimated spending an average of 290.49 hours of library staff time reviewing contract terms from vendors of all kinds of licenses for content in the past year. • A shade more than 7% of the libraries in the sample had ever been threatened by a publisher or information vendor with any form of legal action for contract abrogation. • Nineteen percent of libraries with expenditures below $35,000 believed they had “a good idea of what others were paying” fo rtheir licenses, nearly four times the rate of libraries with database expenditures exceeding $500,000. • Twenty-three percent of the libraries in the sample currently had institutional digital repositories. • Just over 14% of all libraries surveyed indicated that they extensively used free access to back issues of some journals that have an “embargo” period before articles become available without charge." Via ResourcesShelf

Cette page de Couperin consacrée à une bibliographie des ERMS sera régulièrement mise à jour (dans le cadre du Groupe de réflexion sur les ERMS) ... Voir également les journées NISO/ERMS (toujours sur Couperin)

Pour mes collègues ERM oriented (mais pas seulement...), à voir cette présentation d'Olivier Ertzscheid (affordance.info) intitulée "Evolution des ressources numériques en bibliothèque". Au menu: "tenter de "penser ensemble": * des problématiques bibliothéconomiques/métier * des logiques d'accompagnement aux usages * des facteurs "macro" économiques relevant de l'arrivée sur ce créneau/marché de nouveaux acteurs (les moteurs de recherche)"

Le Publishers Communication Group a publié un rapport sur les tendances en matière de renouvellement des abonnements aux revues académiques au cours de ces quatre dernières années. "Report highlights increased migration from print to online and faculty influence in libraries' selection process." Le rapport peut être commandé auprès d'Emilie Delquié de PCG (aucune mention du prix...). Mais si l'un(e) ou l'autre parvient à l'obtenir d'une autre manière, merci de faire circuler... Via PSLB

McMeekin, Jen, Sullivan, Shirley (2007), Spoilt for Choice : A comparison of two aggregations and the use of ScholarlyStats and Ulrichs Serials Analysis System. In Proceedings ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Conference, Melbourne (Australia). (déposé sur E-LIS) "The proliferation of online databases supplying aggregations of journal articles to support undergraduate courses means that academic library staff need to exercise care and maintain a watching brief on the performance of these databases. In 2006, the University of Melbourne Information Services decided to cancel one large aggregation database in favour of a competitor, after several years of monitoring coverage content and date ranges. This paper will define the term aggregation as used in the paper and provide details of both aggregation packages before going on to discuss the rationale behind the evaluation and the procedures and tools used in the evaluation process (Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System (USAS) and ScholarlyStats (SS) from MPS Technologies). In 2006, Jen became the University of Melbourne’s CAUL Datasets Co-ordinator. In this capacity, she established a working party to conduct the comparison of the databases. To ensure a representative sample of staff, liaison librarians and collection managers from a wide discipline range were included. There was a perceived need to provide value for money and ensure transparency of decision making and involvement of stakeholders from all relevant disciplines. The first task was to provide spreadsheets to working party participants. These spreadsheets contained lists of full text titles unique to each package as well as lists of all full-text titles with coverage dates included. USAS was then used to provide subject analysis and to eliminate titles already held online through publisher packages or individual subscriptions. After consultation with stakeholders, members of the working party returned with lists of titles identified as essential. Jen turned to SS for usage data for these essential titles. It was then possible to recommend purchase of individual title where usage data indicated the necessity, or to point out these titles deemed essential were in fact not used, or little used, during 2006. The paper will close with the recommendation to continue this type of analysis regularly to ensure our collections reflect the needs of the users while providing financial managers with appropriate data to ensure accountability and value for money."

Library Technology Guides annonce: "Ex Libris (UK) is pleased to announce that following an extremely rapid implementation process, the Company's award-winning SFX link resolver is now operational at the Oxford University Library Services (OULS). The OULS has introduced SFX to manage the university's extremely large e-collection - consisting of over 22,500 e-journals and an extensive collection of e-books."