Progress towards ereserves in the UK Seminar on electronic course materials Helsinki, 24 October 2001
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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]