Explore and exploit your

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• Explore and exploit your
• e-collections
• dont just make available

• Helle Lauridsen
• Market Manager, Europe
• Serials Solutions

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timeline

• Physical Libraries

• Online Libraries

• 300 BC the library of Alexandria
• 1445 Gutenberg invents the printing press
• 1665 first issue of The Philosophical
  Transactions of the Royal Society
• 1870ies the first abstracting indexes emerges
• .1960ies Citation indexing is invented
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• 1970ies first on-line library catalogues
• 1980ies online searching through dial-up becomes
  commen
• 1990ies first online full text
• 2000s. E- only libraries becoming the norm!

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A large university library i n the year 2000

• about 1100 titles from various publishers
  labelled Foreign electronic journals
• Aggregation package content not integrated in
  e-journal list
• No remote access
• No integration between databases and full text
  journals

• Everything handwritten and manually maintained by
  one person
• 14 full time persons in serials department

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In 2002

• 11,000 e-journal titles
• Alphabetical as well as subject directory
• Remote access from outside Campus
• Link from databases to full text

14 staff in subscriptions department 40 kms of
print subscriptions in Stacks 5 budget
decrease
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Content providers often deliver titles, ISSNs,
and holdings data that are incorrect,
non-standard, or missing altogether.
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The first e-management system
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In 2004/5

• 14,000 e-journals
• 4,000 e-books
• Aggregated email alert service
• Federated searchgt100 AI databases
• Web based Reference Management system

In separate lists as well as loaded in OPAC
5 budget decrease More big deals requested
by users than ever E-only official library
strategy Campus libraries holdings merged 4 staff
in Electronic resource department
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Too many lists
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2005
26GB of spread sheets
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ERAMS!

• Requirements
• Strong well maintained knowledgebase, which works
  seamlessly with linkresolver and A-Z list
• Hosted!
• Option for entering not just e-packages but also
  single print subscriptions
• Budget sharing
• Tracking of trials WITH comments
• Goes without saying
• Compatible with local system(s)
• Follows the general guidelines

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2009 The true e-library?

• Behind the scene

• Budget spending value 85 of year 2000
• of journal titles increased 5 times
• The back office is re-structured
• 90 of all budget is used for electronic
  purchases
• Shelf space has been re-allocated
• The library has gone fully

• E

- lectronic
. But what does the user see?
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Library experience is confusing, clumsy and slow
Where should I begin?
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Researchers Speak for Themselves
I get confused and end up going in circles.
Library sources are great but internet sources
are the most convenient.
If only there was a Google-like search
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Research shows
Ithaka Report 2006
The relevance of the library catalogue as a
starting point for research is declining
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User Perception of Library Content
The superior source for quality, credible content
Preferred for academic research and course
assignments
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Actual User Behavior
The easiest place to start the research process
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Problem Library offers subpar user experience

• Meet Aaron
• 3rd year undergraduate student
• Term paper evaluating treatment by alternative
  press of George Bushs handling of the Katrina
  disaster

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Why Not the Library First?
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Everything Has Been Leading To This

• Enables quick discovery of the most credible
  resources anywhere the library has them
• Digital or physical
• Books, e-journal articles, databases, etc.
• Catalog, publishers, aggregators, open access,
  etc.

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Simplified Illustration
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See It To Believe It!
Demonstration
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Thank youQuestions?

• Helle.lauridsen_at_serialssolutions.com