E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities

by Jim Cole, Wayne Jones, David C Fowler

Overview

Learn how information professionals are addressing the electronic resource issues being faced in their own libraries and around the world!

This informative volume gives you an up-close look at the increasingly important role that electronic serials play in the overall library collection, today and in the future. It addresses many of the themes, problems, and questions raised by this fast-evolving medium, including e-journal publishing issues, troubleshooting, and accreditation issues, as well as e-reserves, e-books, and more. In E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities, library professionals from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia discuss these issues, the problems they have faced, and the solutions they have developed for them.

From the editor: It is my belief that e-serials will continue to emerge as the key players in the library world, as the physical library gradually and inexorably gives way to the virtual library. As e-journals insinuate themselves throughout the infrastructures of libraries and expand their reach globally, the issues addressed in this book are becoming of concern to all librarians, not just the electronic resources and information technology specialists. Librarians all over the world are struggling with how to manage electronic serials and the issues associated with them. In this book, readers will see how library professionals just like themselves deal with electronic journals, their transitions, trends, and technicalities.

With helpful graphs, figures, and charts making the information in the book easily accessible and understandable, E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities will increase your understanding of:

• the interrelationship between pricing, licensing, technological aspects, and proximity to publishers and librariesfrom the point of view of a leading global subscription agent
• the benefits and pitfalls of using vendors/publishers, third-party providers, and subscription agents for electronic journal services
• how information professionals are currently developing and cataloging online materialswith a survey of 70 libraries!
• the IP ranges vs. passwords conundrum
• the advantages of joining a consortium to make journals available to users at a lower cost to your library
• how to determine the amount of usage your electronic products are getting
• claiming and troubleshooting e-journalswith a fascinating case study from UCLA's biomedical library
• how to efficiently handle electronic articles destined for a reserve collection
• how to select an e-book model that will satisfy your users and your staff
• open-access systems and softwareand what they mean to your institution
• regional accreditation for e-serials
• using a database-driven approach to manage e-resources
• and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040280942
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300

About the Author

Jim Cole, Wayne Jones, David C Fowler

Table of Contents

About the Editor, Contributors, Preface, List of Abbreviations, Chapter 1. Current Trends in Electronic Journal Publishing: An Agent’s Unique Insight into Pricing, Licensing, and Technological Aspects Based on Proximity to Publishers and Libraries, Introduction, Management Challenges Facing Libraries, The Requirement of a License, Pricing Models, Access Technologies, Alternative Publishing, Conclusion, Chapter 2. To Use or Not to Use: The Benefits and Challenges of Using a Subscription Agent for Electronic Journals, The Benefits of Using a Subscription Agent, The Benefits of Using a Vendor/Publisher, The Benefits of Using a Third-Party Provider, The Challenges of Working with Subscription Agents, The Challenges of Working with Vendors/Publishers, The Challenges of Working with Third-Party Providers, Conclusion, Chapter 3. Collection Development and Cataloging of Online Materials: What Libraries Are Doing Now, Introduction, Methodology, Results and Analysis, Conclusion, Appendix, Chapter 4. IP Ranges versus Passwords: The Pros, the Cons, and What’s in Between, Passwords, IP Access, IP and Password!, Password Advantages, Access Through Aggregators, Librarians Make a Difference, Future of Password and IP Access, Chapter 5. Consortia and Electronic Journals: An Overview, The Impetus to Cooperate, History of Cooperation and Consortia, Description of a Consortium: OhioLINK, Support for Consortia, Consortia: What Works, Consortia: E-Journal Problems, The Future of Consortial Arrangements, Conclusion, Chapter 6. Usage Data: Issues and Challenges for Electronic Resource Coll

Editorial Reviews

For a brief shining moment, perhaps we all imagined that electronic serials would be the solution to the difficulties of dealing with paper journals: numbering errors, missing issues, claiming, checking in, binding, reshelving, etc. Sadly, in fact, only a few of the old problems seem to have disappeared with the advent of electronic serials, and many new challenges have already begun to plague us: licensing, access, missing content, and more. Electronic serials play an increasingly vital role in library collections, so these challenges will have to be met. Mostly case studies, the chapters in this volume present the experience of librarians who have met and mastered the electronic serials beast. E-reserves and e-books rate a section each. Librarians already dealing with the virtual world of information will recognize many of the difficulties highlighted in these studies. Finding a new solution or two along the way makes the whole thing worth reading. Recommended for academic libraries.-Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's Univ. Lib., San Antonio Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Reviewer: David Brennan, BA, MLS (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
Description: This book covers a number of issues related to the management of electronic serials collections, primarily from an academic library perspective.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an overview of "many of the themes, problems, and questions raised by this newly ubiquitous medium [electronic serials]." These objectives are worthy, particularly for smaller academic libraries that are now focusing their attention on providing access to electronic resources. This book meets those objectives.
Audience: The book is written for the practitioner, but it is equally useful for the student, and may indeed be a good choice for a course textbook. The chapters on "Using a subscription agent for electronic journals" (Ch. 2) and "Consortia and electronic journals" (Ch. 5) would be particularly suited for students, while less useful for those already in the field. The authors bring a wide range of appropriate experience to their respective chapters.
Features: The book covers the basics of managing electronic serials collections, from purchasing/access options to collection development and working with usage data. The collection development chapter makes good use of graphics to illustrate survey results. A weakness of the book is the chapter on electronic reserves, which deals with copyright issues in reserve collections. Drawing on a case from an Australian library, the copyright regulations cited differ from those in the U.S. as well as Canada and the U.K. A more general approach to copyright and licensing would have been more effective for different audiences, and indeed is a major component of the management of all electronic collections.
Assessment: This is a good introduction to the management issues involved in dealing with electronic serials collections and will be a useful resource to students and staff in libraries seeking ways to better manage their resources.

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