Using Content Presented by Karen Andrews Physical Sciences & Engineering Librarian, U.C. Davis Tuesday, September 13, :30-9:30 ASIDIC Fall 2005 Meeting September 11-13, 2005 Silverado Resort Napa, CA The Changing Value of Content

The Punch List Best Practices for Electronic Resources The Punch List Covers the following areas of concern to librarians: 1.Access Authentication7. Linking to content 2.Co-Branding of Products8. Perpetual Access 3.Copyright Issues9. Purchase Models 4.Cover-to-Cover Digitization10. Retractions and Corrections 5.Digital Quality11. Statistics 6.Interlibrary Loan & electronic Reserves

 Endorsed by 200+ members of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.  Open conversation between librarians and content providers about the issues  Goal: Effect change that benefits all parties involved

Access Authentication

Co-Branding of Products Needed to make researchers aware that products cost money Notify researchers that library is providing access, not just free via web

Co-Branding

Copyright Issues Through SFX, the Open URL allows UC authors to put link to their article on web page or course reserve page Only authorized users can click through to full article Copyright is preserved!

Cover-to-Cover Digitization Researchers (faculty, students) want everything… job ads, cartoons, product ads Libraries want complete content in order to withdraw print and save space Need complete content for historic record –(editorial boards, author instructions)

Digital Quality

Interlibrary Loan & Electronic Reserves Current practice is to send scanned articles via internet where possible More efficient, saves paper, faster service Licenses that don’t allow this result in more cumbersome, outmoded procedures for library staff

Linking to Content Open URL preferred over DOI for linking Researchers are presented with choices for what to do next Can link to catalog, to ILL request form, to help desk Can copy citation to web page or document

Perpetual Access Critical to guarantee that content will remain over time

Purchase Models

Retractions and Corrections

Statistics Counter-compliant is preferred Consistent format allows data comparisons Consistent definition of what is counted

Faculty want No limits –To search results retrieved –To sets that can be combined –To number of simultaneous users –To geographic location of access

Faculty want Ability to do complex searches Ability to post and distribute own papers Stable interface (infrequent use)

Undergraduate students want Limits!! Limited search results – best articles only Full text Ability to articles to themselves Intuitive search interface Intuitive results manager

Undergraduate students want Free! Convenient Time is always a factor

Grad students want Everything! –Everything digitized and web-available Serious searchers –Know what they want –Difficult to find it

Everyone wants Basics done well –Access –Viewing –Downloading –Alerts –Printing –Few constraints

Content has value when Click through able Has metadata for importing to software Open-URL for further searching Complete

Audience questions 1.Will we end up with only one library owning an item, and everyone else will get it from them via Interlibrary Loan? Response: Possible, but unlikely unless cost to libraries is so high that nearly everyone cancels. Example: Gordon & Breach title costing over $23,000

Audience questions (con’t.) Major research libraries want to keep core titles immediately available. Smaller college libraries that can afford to wait for copies rely on Interlibrary Loan. Danger is that high costs will drive research libraries to keep the same high-use, core titles, leading to homogeneous collections Need to maintain depth of research collections

Audience questions (con’t.) 2. How can university libraries help small businesses? Anyone can come in and use the resources of pubic universities. Some resources are restricted, even on-site, to faculty, staff and students. But we try to obtain licenses that allow for open use for anyone in the library.

Audience questions (con’t.) Universities are not funded to expand product licenses to cover businesses. Some products are priced based on number of FTE students at a campus. Large campuses will pay more for same material than smaller college. The publishers typically restrict access to faculty, staff and students.