Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:45:11 -0500
From: Laura Kane McElfresh (Emory Univ.) <lmcelfr_at_emory.edu>
Subject: Midwinter Meeting Notes: ALCTS-SS Research Libraries Discussion
Group
Following please find notes from the ALCTS-SS Research Libraries
Discussion Group meeting
last month in Boston. Many thanks to Gracemary Smulewitz for taking
notes and producing
this writeup.
-Laura
ALCTS SS RESEARCH LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN E-JOURNALS MANAGEMENT
January 15, 2005
Facilitator: Laura Kane McElfresh, Serials Cataloger, Emory University -
Chair, ALCTS SS
Research Libraries Discussion Group
Presenter - Dr. Donald Panzera, Library of Congress
Presenter - Dr. Evelinde Hutzler, EZB; Universitatsbibliothek Regensburg
Topic: International Cooperative E-journals Management
The premise for the development of the EZB, Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek -Electronic
Journals Library – There are too many titles for us to keep up with;
libraries need to work in
collaboration to develop access to e-journals of scholarly publications.
University Library of Regensburg developed the EZB for the larger
research community. In 2002
a representative of the Library of Congress and the EZB met at the
Frankfurt Book fair. This
meeting sparked an interest for the Library of Congress to participate.
Shortly thereafter LC and
EZB signed a memorandum of understanding forming a collaborative effort
to combine resources.
LC decided to join because EZB is where the ejournals are: 20,600
ejournals of which 8,000 are
full text, 2,300 are born digital. This is supplemented by 21,000 titles
in aggregators
The EZB is a cooperative effort and presently has 291 members- 290 are
European and 1 is the
Library of Congress. The program builds access through collaboration. As
membership increases,
so does collection, each member provides tools, licensing and holdings.
The database is maintained
collaboratively as well and is freely accessible.
24% of the publications are German publications, 23% are from United
States and 53% are from
other countries.
The EZB provides free access to database, persistent URLS, licensing and
holdings data, ejournal
metadata and MARC 21 bibliographic data per the Deutsche Bibliothek. The
cost is $0 and takes
.25 FTE for Database Maintenance and .25 FTE for other obligations.
The EZB does not store any journal content, it provides access and
employs a universal traffic light
system: green light means freely accessible, yellow light means that the
institution has a license
agreement for this journal and it is accessible to patrons of that
institution, red light means not
accessible. Accessibility is contingent on who is searching and the
licensing agreements for that title.
Each member can explain its own access provisions and the EZB can be
linked to the member’s
library catalog.
The EZB can be integrated into the internet library, Vascoda
(www.vascoda.de <http://www.vascoda.de/>). The mission is to improve the
information and research
availability in Germany. If Vascoda is searched EZB links can be
accessed. The EZB brings the user
to the point of local access and immediate availability.
EZB is connected with Vascoda via OPEN URL. It links to various levels
of ejournal access and
provides deep article linking for 8,000 ejournals, linking to issues,
volumes or journal homepages;
linking to free and licensed full text.
The Library of Congress is cultivating an International Electronic
Exchange project. The purpose is
to share the burden of obtaining, maintaining, preserving and providing
ongoing access to information
products. The hope is to reduce processing costs and provide timely
access. The participants are:
LC- GOP
National Library of Medicine
National Art Library
Deutsche Bibliotek
State Library of Berlin
EZB
The intent is to exchange access to content and intellectual property
rights; exchange pertinent
metadata, develop interoperability, IT systems and cooperative reference
service. An ongoing exchange
exists on a sporadic basis so far.
More information about EZB –
* Why is the collaboration in Germany? Because the EZB partnership
is easy and it is where the most data is available.
* The subjects come from German subject classification.
* List of titles is accessed by going to browse function on the EZB
* LC did a crosswalk from LC subjects to German subject lists
* Can search by keyword in English
* Government Documents are part of the exchange. In Germany many
institutions are government supported.
* EZB started as a collaborative effort between Regensburg and the
Technical Institute of Munich.
* The EZB is mainly a user service, not a consortium, not a buying
unit and not a cataloging unit.
* Statistics show that users are satisfied, the latest count reveals
more than 10 million title inquiries.
* Each member is responsible for their own licensing information
* There is a question as to whether the records will be going into
the CONSER database
* EZB wants libraries to create links from their catalogs, libraries
can link themselves or contact Evi.
* LC slogan – MFBC – “more, faster, better, cheaper”.
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Laura Kane McElfresh
Serials Cataloger
Mathematics & Computer Science Librarian
Emory University Phone: 404-727-1613
Woodruff Library Fax: 404-727-0053
Atlanta, GA 30322 Email: lmcelfr_at_emory.edu
http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/science/math/mathguide.html
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