1. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service. Angelo Castillo1 e-Periodicals Service Gateway to Information http://intranet.unesco.org/periodic/ Case study:

2. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service2 Background 11995: The Library section decides to acquire an electronic management system that also allows of serials processing 11996: The new system, Techlib, is implemented KKardex management of periodical is progressively abandoned 1997: Internet explosion EEveryday more and more periodicals and magazines are available online Creation the Periodicals website

3. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service3 Criteria for choosing titles:  Cover the Organization’s fields of activity, and  Published by the Organization/UN Agencies, or  Well-known and respected by their peers, and  Provide timely information, relevant to the implementation of the Organization’s programmes  All or most of the content has to be accessible  Updated regularly.

4. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service4../… 11999: The crisis 2270+ subscriptions are cancelled! The Periodicals website has to evolve so as to offer a viable alternative 22000: Restructuring of the publishing industry. Free, single-title websites disappear: ee-Services that sell access packages to thousands of titles control the market

5. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service5 Why?  Budgetary constraints  Irregularity of paper versions  Missing issues / gaps  To better exploit our stacks To bring visibility to our collections

6. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service6 How?  Periodicals  Checklist Two websites Outward looking External e-Services Holdings-oriented Promotion of Collection

7. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service7 I. Checklist Website  A database searchable by Title Subject Language Record number (for circulation lists, etc.) Promotes our collections by putting it on every desktop Cult* africa Times edu* Russian 107023

8. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service8 It also offers  Information about availability of titles Display (Reading Room only) Circulation of paper versions Holdings

9. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service9  e-Applications Request for circulation Consultation/ Modification of personal lists Request for articles

10. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service10 II. Periodicals Website A gateway to electronic services offering up-to-date Information from around the world  RSS service providing hourly updated headline news  Access to electronic versions of paper subscribed periodicals  Institutional access to some of the most important providers of e-content around

11. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service11 + Paper subscriptions World Bank e-Library * EBSCO Ingenta OECD * Elsevier ScienceDirect * ProQuest * * Services provided through the UN Consortium e-Content Providers

12. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service12 III Advantages of e-Services  Adding a greater number of titles to our collections  Periodicals content are indexed searchable  Enliven our stacks: requests for articles are precise  Fetching issues is both faster and more accurate. Periodicals collections is brought to life!

13. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service13 Comments/ Questions/ Contacts  Access to: World Bank e-Library ProQuest ScienceDirect and OECD library@unesco.org a.castillo@unesco.org  Link to Periodicals website/Project assistance

14. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service14 Thank you!

15. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service15 What access?  IP-Configured Simplified management  One account for the whole «Campus»  Identifying source of problems is straightforward No constraints to the user Customization of institutional gateway… Possibility of «branding» Institutional gateway ProQuest with on ProQuest with personalized search page and internal links

16. 8 June 2005Clearing House Workshop - Periodicals Service16  ID + Password When IP is not possible:  An «off-Campus» solution Constraints on users to remember login Difficult to manage, to identify and solve problems What access?