Management and trends at Jyvskyl University Library

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Management and trends atJyväskylä University
Library

• 8.5.2007
• Marja Sarvilinna

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Jyväskylä University

• Jyväskylä Teacher Training College 1863
• Jyväskylä College of Education 1936
• Jyväskylä University since 1966
• 7 faculties
• over 16.000 students ( ca.18.000 Open University
  students)
• ca. 2400 employees

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Jyväskylä University Library

• Scientific Library
• Depository Library for Finnish publications
• National Resource Library in education and sports
  sciences in Finland
• European Documentation Centre for EU resources
• Social responsibility open for all citizens

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Some statistics

• Staff 63 library professionals (directors,
  librarians information specialists, amanuensis,
  library assistants)
• Collections books (2 million volumes), print
  journals (ca. 10.000 titles), electronic journals
  (15.000 titles), electronic books (32.000 titles)
• Visits more than 2 million visit / year
• Budget 6,4 million euros (incl. 1.7 million to
  acquisitions of which 54 to electronic materials)

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Publishing Channel

• Contact person
• Project designer Pertti Pitkänen
• pertti.pitkanen_at_library.jyu.fi

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Project

• National project of two years (2007-2008)
• Participants
• University of Jyväskylä (coordinator)
• Universities in Helsinki, Oulu and Tampere
• Tampere University of Technology
• Finnish Virtual University (national
  advising/guiding group)

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Challenges

• Author
• How can I publish my work?
• Theses, dissertations
• Learning materials
• Articles, e-papers
• How do I define the usage rights of my
  e-materials?
• Information Retriever
• Where can I find these e-materials?
• How can I use e-material that I found?

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Main issues

• to make publishing of all kinds of e-materials
  easy
• to make, store and monitor electronic publishing
  contracts
• to make materials available and easily accessed

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Technological solution

• Solution is based on two systems
• Electronic publishing system/repository
• Based on DSpace Open Source software
• Uses collections to organize materials
• Contract management system
• Contracts are based on templates
• Stores contracts both as text and as
  ODRL-documents
• Enables automatic monitoring and access control

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Final Outcome 2008

• Publishing Chanel a tool for easy publishing
• System for managing publishing contracts
• Nationally accessible local (university)
  electronic repositories

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Thank you!