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e-Content Management and Strategies
Dr. H. K. Kaul
Director, DELNET
Developing Library Network
 The enormous growth of e-content
 The digital content has greater advantage
 The e-content has impacted the acquisition of content, processing of
documents, access to e-resources, services to users and archiving
 Users have become more informed
 Delivering of packaged, best and relevant content necessary
 eContent Sources and Strategies
 Web Resources
 The web resources that we access through the search engines
 The Hidden Web
 Librarians will have to remain learning the advances taking place
 Conduct research and innovate
 Adopt latest technologies
 The copyright concerns
 eJournals
 Hosted by Commercial Publishers and Aggregators
 Online access to open source e-journals.
 Non-open-source e-journals
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Print on demand
Back files of all journals need to get digitized
The consortia managers will have to negotiate
The reliability of archiving back files of journals by publishers
 eBooks
Access to eBooks is impacted by hardware manufacturers, software producers
digital market places, aggregators, vendors and others who handle e-content
 The Digital Content and Libraries Working Group (DCWG) recommends:
 Inclusion of all titles
 Enduring rights
 Integration
The eBook Strategy Working Group of the University of Guelph Library observes:
 Keep a watch on the e-book market and identify the new business models regularly
 Prefer a model with unlimited simultaneous user access
 Avoid accepting, as far as possible, digital rights management (DRM) restrictions
 Get accurate and detailed MARC records with e-books
 Prefer to have collaboration on collection development of e-books
 A checklist of licensing requirements be prepared
 Archiving of e-book content be explored
The eBook Strategy Working Group (Contd.)
 Acquisition of e-books should be demand driven
 Gaps in essential e-book resources be identified and acquired in due
course of time
 Open access e-books need to be selected for future use.
 Collaborate with library networks like DELNET in getting the best open
access resources
 Interlibrary Loan (ILL) facility should be got introduced in the e-book
license agreement
 Short term loan options be discussed with vendors to avoid unnecessary
subscriptions to large packages.
E-book hardware also needs to be looked into.
A range of platforms and e-book creating software such as Adobe Frame Maker,
Adobe. Page Maker, Adobe Design, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Capture etc.
The report of the Ebook Strategy Working recommendations:
 Information about new platforms and changes in the existing ones be regularly
monitored and reviewed
 Downloadable PDF format be preferred
 Availability of discovery features with seamless access be preferred
 Navigation tools within ebook ecosystem for users and library staff be created or
selected with the packages.
Digital Textbook Adoption
CBSE textbooks from class I to class XII are available from NCERT (National
Council of Educational Research and Training) and can be downloaded, printed
and used by students free of charge.
Flipbooks
The multimedia and ICT applications are being used in developing more
advanced interactive e-books called flipbooks.
Open Access Content
Web. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) increased by over 21,000 in the
first quarter of 2014
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) added 293 open access monographs in
the same quarter for an 18% growth rate (annual equivalent 72%) and a total of
1,912 books as of March 31, 2014
Open Access Initiatives
The Budapest Open Access Initiative
Open access content is available either free of charge or with some
additional usage rights. The authors contribute to open access either by self
archiving which is called ‘green’ open access and by publishing in an open
access journals which is called ‘gold’ open access.
Open Access Initiatives Contd.
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities (2003) which advocates the promotion of a new open access
paradigm as per the following guidelines:
 Encouraging our researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according
to the principles of the open access paradigm.
 Encouraging the holders of cultural heritage to support open access by
providing their resources on the Internet.
Open Access Initiatives Contd.
 Developing means and ways to evaluate open access contributions and
online-journals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and
good scientific practice.
 Advocating that open access publication be recognized in promotion and
tenure evaluation.
 Advocating the intrinsic merit of contributions to an open access
infrastructure by software tool development, content provision, metadata
creation, or the publication of individual articles.”
Government Policies
 All content and data created with public funding
 Governmental agencies and institutions creating and using content should
participate in international efforts on OA
 Policies be framed to invite teaching and research community to publish in
open access Journals while maintaining standards through peer-reviewing
Government Policies (contd.)
 Publicity be given to public rights to open access.
 Support Green and Gold open access initiatives of authors.
 Support be given for infrastructure and institutional repository development.
 National strategies for long term preservation of open access content be framed.
Institutions and Libraries
 Associate research staff with library professionals for selecting quality content.
 Discovery and aggregation of appropriate content be achieved through Library
Networks
 Train library professionals to handle technical issues concerning interoperability,
Open Archives Initiative, Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) compliance,
metadata creation etc.
 Long term preservation strategies for open access content
Institutional Repositories
The Creative Commons (CC-CA) issues licenses to attach them to their
contributions.
UNESCO has come out with the guidelines for comparing institutional repository
software, keeping in view the major platforms that present software for this purpose.
The five software mostly adopted for developing IRs such as Digital Commons,
Dspace, Eprints, Fedora, and Islandora have been compared.
e-Content Strategies by the Universities
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst Libraries follow the following
strategies:
 A Digital Strategies Group is established and the Goup provides direction and
offers strategic planning. The Group also coordinates the digital activities.
 The University has established Working Groups for looking into metadata
creation, digital creation and preservation and data management.
e-Content Strategies by the Universities Contd.
University of California, Riverside campus has adopted, among various strategies, the
following strategies for digital content:
 Curate digital research data in order to preserve and disseminate the unique
research findings of UCR faculty and students with the world and to enable
new forms of academic inquiry and discovery through creative and dynamic
use and reuse of the digital assets of the university.
 Curate distinctive collections of purchased, licensed, and unique content supporting
diverse research and teaching initiatives on campus
 Support researchers in developing and producing new knowledge
products.
University of Virginia Library
The University has established different units to look into:
 Acquisitions Services that work for acquiring resources from different parts of the
world
 Cataloguing and metadata services that help in accessing that content
 Digitization services, that digitise important and rare collections
 Digital stewardship services that include long-time preservation and curation of
digital collections.
Online Educational Content
The creation of online content for students
professional bodies is proliferating.
by various commercial and
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS)
Established in 2012, MOOC offers unlimited free access to content on a large
number of courses on the web. The content is offered through text, readings,
videos, interactive discussions etc.
Khan Academy
Established in 2006, Khan Academy offers free world-class content on thousands of
topics in all disciplines through lectures, video tutorials etc.
TED – Talks To Listen To
TED offers short powerful talks on a large number of topics in more than 100
languages.
Slideshare
SlideShare offers slide hosting service and one can upload presentations in PowerPoint,
PDF, Keynote or OpenDocument formats. Millions of users every month use the
website.
Iseek
A search engine for students, teachers and administrators that offers editorreviewed content.
TeachThought
Offers content from more than one hundred search engines for academic
research. Also offers meta search on a variety of databases and archives
including books and journals on Science, Math & Technology, Social Science,
History, Business and Economics, Reference etc.
Academic Search Complete
Designed by Ebsco offers detailed coverage on key areas of academic study in peerreviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports and books.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Offers access to thousands of e-books on most of the subjects. The reference works
are authoritative in nature and access is available 24/7.
PsycNET of American Psychological Association
Offers full text databases of books, reviews, journals, articles, gray literature on Psychology, all
having easy search, advanced search, citation finder etc. facilities.
Health Finder
Offers quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, etc. on all topics concerning
health issues.
Infomine
Offers scholarly Internet resource collections on all disciplines. Established by the University of
California.
The Impact of Online Education on Libraries:
The IFLA Point of View
The IFLA Trend Report Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? – Navigating the Evolving
Information Environment predicts:
 Substantial demand for intermediaries
 Role of library professionals
There will also be:
 Seamless access to educational resources
 Automated machine translation will change the way we communicate with each other
 Researchers and users will be able to read in their own language any book, article,
online blog etc.
e-Content Archiving
Appraisal and Selection
 e-Content harvested from the web sources needs to be evaluated.
 The evaluation of e-Content has to go through various processes.
Evaluating the Web Content
 Evaluate the Intention of the Web site
 WHY was the Web site created?
 What purpose does the site serve? Information, entertainment, profit?
 What does the author get out of it? A laugh, a job, joy?
 What does the purpose tell you about the reliability of the information?
What OPINION does this site represent?
 What point is emphasized by the web site? Is it reasonable?
 Is the tone reasonably objective or fanatical?
 What is conspicuously missing (if anything)? Do you see logical errors or issues
that have been avoided for no apparent reason?
Evaluate the Relevance of the Site
 How old is the web site or page?
 Can you tell when the page was posted to the web?
 Have the authors ever changed the content?
 Does it matter?
 Does timeliness matter to the subject of your paper or project?
Evaluate the Reliability of the Site
 WHO created the site?
 Can you tell? Does anyone claim authorship?
 Who do the authors work for? What are their credentials?
 Have you ever heard of them? Name recognition is important.
How GOOD is the Information?
 How does the information fit in with what you already know?
 Have the authors edited the page for spelling and grammar?
 How much does the web site rely on graphics to distract you from the text?
How Well Documented is the Work?
 Can you find a bibliography? Do the sources seem scholarly?
 Do the links work?
 Do the links seem to be scholarly?
Sharing e-Content
 e-Content and Copyright
 Management of e-content will not be complete without the
management of copyright fees to copyright holders.
Conclusion
 Librarians will have to remain learning the advances taking place, conduct
research and innovate or adopt latest technologies to use deep web
resources.
 Keep a watch on the e-book market and identify the new business models
regularly.
 Archiving of ebook content in libraries should be explored
 There is a great need for educational institutions and libraries to get
associated with publishers in developing advanced text books which
could be much more useful for students.
Conclusion (contd.)
Librarians can use open source and customised software to convert PDF based
ebooks into flipbooks.
Encourage researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according to the
principles of the open access paradigm.
Develop means and ways to evaluate open access contributions and onlinejournals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good
scientific practice.
National strategies for long term preservation of open access content be framed.
Conclusion (contd.)
 Institutional repositories can greatly help in making knowledge accessible to
users and general public without any barriers.
 Curate digital research data in order to preserve and disseminate the unique
research findings.
 Guidelines be adopted for selecting quality e-content.
 For getting necessary and sufficient quality content sharing of e-content and
networking of libraries be promoted.