Transcript E-JOURNAL COLLECTION BUILDING THROUGH INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN E-JOURNAL MANAGEMENT
Evelinde Hutzler, University Library Regensburg Don Panzera, Library of Congress
Presentation Overview
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The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) - Electronic Journals Library -- and the Library of Congress Cooperative e-journal management in the EZB EZB user functionality EZB and vascoda Joint project Q&A/Discussion
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EZB is a Cooperative Library Service….
Developed and managed by the University Library Regensburg, Germany Supported by German Research Foundation and Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
291 members: 290 European, 1 North American
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…Building Access through Collaboration
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Constant enlargement of the title content Cooperative collection of the e-journals Tools for license and access information administration for each of 291 EZB member institutions Integration of local requirements
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Collaboratively Maintaining the Database
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Collaborative maintenance of the bibliographic metadata Effective updating of the URLs Saving of labor for each EZB member High database quality and user satisfaction
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LC’s “Sutton Strategy”
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EZB Database = Research value
– 20,600 e-journals • •
8,000 full text at no direct cost 2,300 born digital
– supplementary 21,000 titles in aggregator
databases
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Exchanging Digital for Print?
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LC exchange receipts in 2004 = 32% of the 1994 total LC/ELAD’s serial exchange receipts dropped by 8000 titles – 50%+ -- between 1998 and 2004 How many have gone digital?
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Scholarly Communication & the EZB free e-journal database
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Academic publishers: 35% Non-profit organizations: 30% Governments: 9% Commercial publishers: 12% Corporations: 6% “Other”: 8%
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Non-Commercial Content.…
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EZB freely accessible e-journals
– Place of publication: • • •
Germany: 24% U.S.: 23% 19 other countries: 53%
– Language •
English: 46%
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German: 30% Spanish: 15% 6 Other: 9%
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EZB Membership Has Its Rewards Free access to the EZB database Persistent URLs License and holdings data from the other 290 members E-journal metadata: MARC 21 bibliographic records from the Deutsche Bibliothek Contact with other German national and research libraries
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EZB Costs
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Direct cost of membership: $0.
Database maintenance: .25 FTE Other membership responsibilities: .25 FTE
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E-Journal Management
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EZB collaborative e-journal management EZB user functionality EZB as part of digital libraries
– Connection between EZB and library catalogs – EZB Linking in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 12
EZB user functions
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EZB offers: Stuctured access to scholarly e-journals Freely available e-journals together with licensed ones under a standardized user interface Browsing in subject and alphabetical lists Search functions User information about access
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Browsing by subject lists
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Biological e-journals
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Direct link to the homepage
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Direct link to the journal homepage
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Access Information
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access information
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License / Access Information Access information in the EZB is shown by a traffic light symbol Green
: free e-journal the full texts are freely available
Yellow:
licensed for the library full texts can be accessed by the institutional users
Red
: without a subscription full text access is not possible
Yellow/Red
: The institution has no continuous subscription on this journal. Therefore, only some of the published volumes are accessible as full texts. ALA, Boston 2005 18
Readme links
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EZB search functions
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EZB web pages for each member
EZB / University Library Regensburg EZB / Library of Congress Local access information for each EZB member ALA, Boston 2005 21
EZB as part of digital libraries
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Link between the EZB and library catalogs Connection between EZB and digital libraries, e.g. vascoda
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Linking to library catalogs
From the catalog entry via persistent URL to the EZB to the journal homepage ALA, Boston 2005 23
EZB and vascoda
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vascoda: interdisciplinary internet portal for scholarly information in Germany (www.vascoda.de) vascoda is the nucleus of the German Digital Library Partners of vascoda
– More than 40 rsearch libraries, technical information
centers and other information institutions
– EZB is a partner of vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 24
Connecting vascoda and EZB
From the search in vascoda
digital libraries
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EZB linking in vascoda
to the result list in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005 26
EZB linking in vascoda
From the result list in vascoda via EZB Link ALA, Boston 2005 27
License information for the article
EZB Linking
to the EZB Link to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005 28
EZB Article Linking
From EZB to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005 29
EZB Linking via Open URL
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EZB connects bibliographic references to full texts in e-journals EZB informs users about the accessibility of the article EZB links to the full texts in e-journals on various levels
– Deep article linking for 8.000 e-journals – Linking to issues, volumes or to the journal home page – Linking to free and licensed full texts ALA, Boston 2005 30
International Electronic Exchange (IEX) Pilot Project
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Purpose: Share the burden of obtaining, maintaining, preserving, and providing ongoing access to information products of research value
– Reduce processing costs – Provide more timely access
Scope: Government e-journals
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IEX Participants
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Library of Congress U.S. Government Printing Office (NLM) (NAL)
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Die Deutsche Bibliothek State Library in Berlin EZB (Bavarian State Library)
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IEX Pilot Project
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Objectives:
– Exchange access to content – Exchange intellectual property rights to enable
downloading and maintenance
– Exchange pertinent metadata – Develop (more) interoperable IT systems – Cooperative reference service ALA, Boston 2005 33
Why Germany?
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EZB partnership Interest on the part of the national libraries Develop a business model that will work for other national libraries
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Thank you for your attention !
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Contact / LC
– Don Panzera
Library of Congress e-mail: [email protected]
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Contact / EZB
– Dr. Evelinde Hutzler
University Library Regensburg e-mail: [email protected]
URL of EZB: www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/
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