Managing content in the electronic world John Cremin, Periodicals Librarian, Trinity College Dublin 16 th June 2010

● Acquisition Process ● Resource Discovery ● Licensing ● Usage Statistics ● E-Books ● Future Developments

Hybrid or Hydra? Managing e-journals at Trinity College Dublin 1997 First E-Journals Page titles

HTML pages – maintained by Sub Librarian, Collection Management

: approx 2000 titles. Dynamic webpages.

EBSCO A-Z since 2003 – 70,997 titles currently

Periodicals Librarian - Electronic journals Sub Librarian, Electronic Information Services - Databases, E-Books Electronic Resources Digital Services Librarian (part-time) - Databases, E-Books Periodicals Staff 6 FT Library Assistants - Print collection Collection ManagementReaders Services Accessions Librarian - E-Books

Where do the 70,997 titles come from? Business Source Complete - 29,673 IEEE/IET Electonic Library - 15,073 Academic Source Complete – 9,173 DOAJ Directory of Open Source Journals – 5,073 Science Direct Freedom Collection – 2303

Acquisition Process  Individual Journal Subscriptions –Subscription Agent  Database Subscriptions –Purchased directly  Consortia Purchasing –IReL

Individual Titles  793 Subscriptions with Swets Information Services  Subscription agent – vital intermediary in the e- resource cycle. –Ordering – web-based purchasing systems –Invoicing – single source, predictable,reliable –Licence and registration (hosting services) –Renewing –Usage stats, reports  Additional services – e-book, a-z lists, federated searching, licence banks, link resolvers

Direct Database Subscriptions ● Database Collections -Nursing & Allied Source - Lexis Nexis Online - Westlaw UK & IE -ATLA Religion Database - LWW Nursing & Health Professions Collection ● Individual Irish titles e.g Industrial Relations News

Consortia  Economic and administrative gains  Ensures access across institutions  Science Direct ( IUA) and Web of Science (CHEST Ireland) 1999 –Individual invoicing arrangement  IReL - Major impact on e-resource provision

IReL – Irish Research eLibrary  Nationally funded –STM Phase funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Higher Education Authority (HEA) –HSS Phase funded by HEA –Total investment €35 million  Serves the 7 Irish universities –Access to a world-class electronic library  106 resources including e-journal collections, databases and abstracting and indexing services, and e-books.

Resource Discovery …and Management  A-Z Lists – Serials Solutions, EBSCO A-Z…  MARC record provision  OpenURL Resolver – LinkSource, SFX, LinkSolver…  Federated searching – multiple data sources – opac, full-text databases, digital collections

Licenses  Access rather than ownership – licensing issues  Who uses content e.g. walk-in users  What use can be made of content e.g. course materials, interlibrary loans  Where content can be accessed e.g. remote sites  Model Licence – essential features e.g perpetual access

Usage Statistics –Electronic Resources Digital Services Librarian –Important indicator of worth of resource ( not only) –COUNTER compliant – audited –No. of downloads –Cancellations –SUSHI, ScholarlyStats

E-Books - Packages – Safari, Knovel, PastMasters - One-off vs. Continued subscription - Individual titles – MyiLibrary Couts – req by subject librarians - Platform fees, ip authentication, e-book readers - DawsonEra, NetLibrary, Swets E-Books

TCD E-Book Collections Ovid 362 EEBO Early English Books Online 100,000 ECCO Eighteenth Century Collection 180,000 MEMSO 500 MyiLibrary316 Past Masters15 CISNet100 Knovel2000 Safari50 ____________ 283,342 Excluding EBBO and ECCO3,343 IReL E-Book Collections ACLS Humanities ebooks2800 MOML Making of Modern Law22,000 Legal Treatises RSC Royal Society of Chemistry 833 WWO Women Writers Online190 LION Literature Online250,000 ORO Oxford Reference Online197 Patrologica Latina221 _______________ 276,241 Excluding LION26241

Future Developments  Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003  Storage Crises  Move to e-only ? – Staff Restructuring  Value for money