Progress towards ereserves in the UK Seminar on electronic course materials Helsinki, 24 October 2001
Download
Report
Transcript Progress towards ereserves in the UK Seminar on electronic course materials Helsinki, 24 October 2001
Progress towards ereserves in the UK
Seminar on electronic course
materials
Helsinki, 24 October 2001
Outline
Setting the scene:
Trends in HE (higher education) in the UK
Academic library expenditure
JISC: Joint Information Services Committee
eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme)
On-demand, e-reserve and SCOPE
DNER (Distributed National Electronic Resource)
Copyright issues and PELICAN
E-reserve: conditions for success
Setting the scene: trends in
HE in the UK
Participation has risen from 1 in 8 (1979) to 1 in 3
(1999)
Wider access: mature learners, part-time participants,
special needs students, remote and distance learners
Modularisation
Expansion of postgraduate sector
Lifelong learning; adult learning
Growing collaboration between HE and FE sectors
Globalisation of education and the e-University
Changes in student funding; consumer society.
Setting the scene: academic
library trends 1
Total library expenditure per FTE student:
1991/2 - 1999/00: £232 - £276 (+19%)
Expenditure on information provision per FTE
student:
1991/2 - 1999/00: £83 - £97 (+ 17%)
Periodical price index 1992/99: +104%
Average UK academic book price:
1990/1 - 1999/00: £30 - £39 (+21%)
Setting the scene: academic
library trends 2
FTE students per FTE professional staff:
325 (1991/2)
429 (1999/2000)
Annual visits per potential user:
49 (1991/2)
33 (1999/2000)
12% of information provision budget on
electronic materials
Tertiary acquisitions per person:
40.4 € (Finland); 41.1 € (UK)
JISC (Joint Information
Systems Committee)
Mission
“To help further and higher education institutions and
the research community realise their ambitions in
exploiting the opportunities of information and
communications technology by exercising vision and
leadership, encouraging collaboration and cooperation and by funding and managing national
development programmes and services of the highest
quality.”
JISC: aims
Ensure continuation of world-leading academic
networks
Promote innovation in the use of ICT
Build online information environment with
secure and convenient access to comprehensive
collections of scholarly and educational material
Help creation and maintenance of Managed
Learning Environments (MLEs)
Provide advisory services in the use of ICT
JISC: eLIB (Electronic
Libraries Programme)
“The exploitation of IT is essential to create the effective
library of the future” (Sir Brian Follett, 1993)
1994-1998; £15 million
60+ projects: e-journals, preprints, digitisation,
preservation, document delivery, training and
awareness, access to network resources,
images, hybrid libraries
12 On-demand/electronic reserve projects
(OD/ER): technical, copyright, multimedia,
subject specific
JISC: eLIB
On-demand: characteristics
Using new technology:
Scanners
Digital storage
High quality printers
Build electronic resource bank to deliver:
Printed course packs (texts selected by lecturers)
Online texts (selected by students)
‘Pick and mix’ and ‘just in time’
Subject to agreement with rightsholders
JISC: eLIB
On-demand: academic case
Offering the diversifying student population
convenient access
Allowing librarians to shift scarce resources from
inflexible/inadequate traditional text provision
Enabling academic staff to customise and
update reading more frequently
Spoon-feeding?
JISC: eLIB
SCOPE
Scottish Electronic Publishing Enterprise
Electronic resource bank:
Printed packs
Online delivery
8 participating Scottish universities
Reading-list based
Involvement of bookseller
Agreeing royalty rates
JISC: eLIB
SCOPE: main activities
Building a resource bank
Developing copyright management and delivery
system (IP addresses, password protection,
encryption, watermarking, controlled: not cut
and paste)
Establishing model agreements with
rightsholders
Liaison, promotion and evaluation
JISC: DNER (Distributed
National Electronic Resource)
£16 million in 2001/2 for electronic information
Collection of high quality digital materials, free
at point of use
Critical mass within individual subject areas
Support teaching, learning and research
Distributed but managed strategic resource
Interoperability is key
JISC: DNER (Distributed
National Electronic Resource)
Books; Journals (NESLI)
Discovery tools
Images; Geospatial resources;
Learning materials
Moving images and sound; Primary data
Content creation
JISC: DNER (Distributed
National Electronic Resource)
Criteria for acquired content:
Conformance to licensing principles
ATHENS and IP address authentication
Perpetual access to archive
Usage data from publisher
Appropriate metadata
Conformance to the Web Accessibility Initiative
Multi year agreements; annual inflation in line with
those in education sector
Copyright:
Advances with rightsholders
JISC/PA working parties:
Fair-dealing, model licence, clearance and
charging mechanisms
eCLA (Copyright Licensing Agency):
Consultation exercises on needs of Higher
Education
Secure networks, exact page
representation,compulsory headers, culture of
compliance
Copyright:
Payment models
Textbook substitution:
x pence per student per original page each time the
course is run, restricted use
Library substitution:
Flat fee for 5 years, unlimited use
Copyright:
Payment models: advantages
Libraries can predict costs
No monitoring/charging software
No bottlenecks (as with restricted simultaneous
usage)
Copyright:
Payment models: problems
Loss of textbook sales?:
Total annual spend on books in UK universities in
1998/99 = £180million
73.6% of which by students and 26.4% by
libraries
Little prior experience of setting fees
What is a core text? And a supplementary text?
Payment for non-use
Access not purchase
Copyright:
PELICAN
•Develop a pricing mechanism
to satisfy all stakeholders
•Loughborough University
(Charles Oppenheim)
•In association with HERON
•Funded by JISC, November
2000 for one year
Copyright:
Payment models: a key issue
Who pays?
Library academic department or student?
Shift of responsibilities
E-reserve:
Conditions for success
Streamlined copyright clearance
Reduced costs/shared digitised files
Management of expectations
Critical mass of high-demand quality texts
Appropriate institutional support/IT
infrastructure
Shared vision for teaching and learning
Carolyn Rowlinson
Associate Director, Information Services
(HERON Project Director)
University of Stirling,
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
[email protected]