ACQNET v6n035 (November 25, 1996) URL = http://www.infomotions.com/serials/acqnet/acqnet-v6n035.txt ISSN: 1057-5308 *************** ACQNET, Vol. 6, No. 35, November 25, 1996 ========================================= (1) FROM: Jeri Van Goethem SUBJECT: Charleston report: Thursday morning (91 lines) (2) FROM: JoAnne Deeken SUBJECT: Charleston report: Thursday afternoon (93 lines) (3) FROM: Lauren Corbett SUBJECT: Charleston report: EDI Lively Lunch (33 lines) (1)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:56:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jeri Van Goethem (Duke Univ.) Subject: Report on the first morning at the Charleston Conference The Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition: "Money Talks" began on Thursday, Nov. 7, 1996 with 4 keynote speakers to whom an audience of record size (470+) listened intently from 8:30 am until 12 noon with little pause for reflection or for coffee! James Stephens of EBSCO Industries led off with a review of EBSCO's increasing involvement in electronic publishing and document delivery and with a discussion of the elements driving change in information delivery. Rapid change in telecommunications where the software may have a life span of 10 months creates challenge for all involved. The change agents are legal, cultural, and engineering. While our mission is to manage information availability and delivery, engineering (or technology) continues to be the driver for rapid change and impacts our ability to meet this mission. We need to develop a pure focus on change and cannot remain intent on the "old ways." Change does have a cost when we function in an environment of less control and greater confusion as well as the higher costs of accommodating old and new forms of information. Mr. Stephens anticipates developing an online order site using the web to handle finances, transactions, pricing, licensing, etc. An online access site could link users directly to information content with numerous servers linking to 60,000 publisher sites, making the connections and handling the authentication. He also sees such sites becoming online, fulltext warehouses of information. Charles McClure, from Syracuse University School of Information Studies, spoke of "Collection Development in an Internet Based Environment." Internet based collection development was defined as "The identification, analysis, selection, and organization of information resources from the Internet which are made available to the library's clientele in a coherent and easy to understand manner. These information resources may include Websites, databases, geographic information systems, visual/graphics, and much more. It is a given that Internet based resources will continue to grow and expand and that libraries need to make decisions about how to plan for and to deal with these resources as part of their collections. Professor McClure provided possible models: (1) integrating resources into the OPAC with the library maintaining the URL links to selected resources, (2) collaborative and consortia approaches with different institutions agreeing to different areas of electronic collection building, (3) vendor supplied (or outsourced) electronic information collecting based on profiles of a library's resource needs, and (4) a model called "cyberstacks" where the library integrates Internet resources into the OPAC with hotlinks as well as links to full text resources maintained on external and/or internal servers. There is a need for good planning and decision making. Collection development policy statements need to address the degree to which Internet based resources will be collected and managed. Dr. William Snyder, Chancellor at University of Tennessee, provided thoughts on "The Information Technology Imperative for Higher Education." Developments in information technology have enhanced access so that libraries do not have time to wait for traditional library activity and approaches. Unless universities and libraries make adjustments to enhance information technologies on campuses, they will be at a competitive disadvantage. With the impact of computers, there is a need to re-think the role of teachers from "sage on stage" to "guide on the side." Another challenge is the over-abundance of information, along with intellectual property issues and the need to address the copyright policy. Dr. Snyder described the technology fee instituted at UT which generates 5M a year and spoke to some uses for this fund. Karen Hunter, from Elsevier, concluded the morning session with "Things That Keep Me Awake at Night." The TULIP project has evolved into Elsevier Electronic Subscriptions (EES) with local implementation of image files of the Elsevier journals through licensed purchase and is evolving into Science Direct which is to be a Web host implemented in July, 1997 to provide access and document delivery of Elsevier publications with links to other web sites, video , 3-D, and to sub-discipline specific resources. There are issues of infrastructure for media-neutral databases, sales and support requirements, and the role of the agent in this scenario. How is the user community defined (who is authorized access?) and how does interlibrary loan fit into electronic delivery? Should information be sold by subscription or by transaction? Should there be bundled packages of journals? How long will parallel publishing continue in both print and electronic versions? There are questions of short term archival access and handling cancellations. Should there be local alternatives to online access with CD-ROM, microfilm, or paper? Ms. Hunter concluded that there is much more that we can do than we can afford. Reported by: Jeri Van Goethem Head of Acquisitions and Serials Duke University, Perkins Library Durham , NC (2)--------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:42:39 -0500 From: JoAnne Deeken (Clemson) Subject: College of Charleston Thursday afternoon College of Charleston Conference: Money Talks: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisitions Thursday afternoon: 2:00-3:30 CEO Panel Discussion: Vendors Partnerships: CEOs, Systems and the Future. The moderators of this meeting were Mary McLaren (Univ. of Kentucky) and Elsie Pritchard (Moorehead State Univ.). A special thanks was extended to Ward Shaw (CARL Corp.) for being a last minute substitute for the absent Michael Mellinger (Data Research Associates) who had airplane technical problems. Dan Halloran (Academic Book Center) was the first speaker. He stressed that the vendors who see the correspondence of tight library budgets and technology as opportunities would be the ones that survived. Mr. Halloran outlined 3 strategic alliances with which Academic Book Center is involved; one currently working, one planned for the future and one that needs further development. The first example is with OCLC PromptCat and approval plans. This alliance will now involve the use of Academic's approval shipments to update OCLC records. The second example was with Academic and Uncover. With the fruition of this alliance, Uncover will offer an SDI service for monographs (again based on Academic's approval plan items) and market it like they do with "Reveal" for journal articles. The third example involved a failure to communicate between ILS vendors and Academic Book Center. The alliance between book/serial vendors and ILS companies is one that is necessary for the smooth operations of the libraries, but ILS vendors do not seem to see that connection and arbitrarily change programs without realizing it affects the vendors and the libraries. Ward Shaw (CARL) said that the best systems are the ones you never see: they work so smoothly that we take them for granted. Our world is technologically driven. Academic libraries and their partners are just not a big enough market to make any real change in technology, so we have to adapt ourselves to take advantage of it as much as we can. CARL tries to practice "safe synergy" by allying to produce the best products and services while making a profit. Jim Stephens (EBSCO) said that, in addition to partnering with libraries, their business requires partnering with publishers (primary and secondary) and with ILS vendors. There are 3 kinds of partnerships: 1. natural partnerships (like that between subscription agent and the publisher); 2. 3rd party partnerships (like the alliance between subscription agents and ILS vendors done for the ease of the libraries who are customers of both); and, 3. stylish partnerships. 3:30-5:00 Panel Discussion: Payment and Subscription Models for Online Publications. Michael Jensen of Johns Hopkins University Press outlined several ways libraries can pay for online publications. These included pay: per kilobyte; per view; per minute; local site license (straight out purchase); local site license (yearly subscription); remote site license; subscription per enrollee; subscription per corpus; subscription per institution; or pricing proportional to print purchases. Hybrid combinations of any two or more of these were also discussed. For Project Muse, the Johns Hopkins Press charges a fee of $2500 for the entire corpus. Individual titles are available in electronic only at 90% of the paper subscription costs. Both paper and electronic versions of individual titles are available at 130% of the paper cost. Ann Dixon of the Institute of Physics (IOP) outlined the thinking behind their decisions on pricing. IOP has one standard price for subscriptions which includes both paper and electronic access. This model was followed because it seemed to have more acceptance in the library world and was easier to understand and price for both the publisher and the librarians. Sharon Cline McKay of Blackwells detailed some of the cooperation that occurs between serials subscription agents, libraries, and publishers when it comes to pricing and licensing electronic journals. She echoed most subscription agents in saying they would be glad to act as intermediaries and help standardize some contract terms and agreements. A very lively discussion of pricing models followed. ******************************************************************* JoAnne Deeken Head, Acquisitions Unit Clemson University R.M. Cooper Library Box 343001 Clemson, SC 29634-3001 V(864)656-1114 F(864)656-7156 ******************************************************************* (3)---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:01:57 -0500 (EST) From: Lauren Corbett (Queens College) Subject: Charleston report: Lively Lunch on EDI Sandy Paul ( SKP Associates) led a Lively Lunch on EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) on the second day of the conference. Sandy defined EDI as the use of standardized formats for the electronic exchange of data between two business organizations. After a giving a brief history, Sandy explained the current situation. The difficulty lies in foreign vendors who are using strict Edifact when our ILS (Integrated Library System) vendors have just gotten to X12, the American version of the standard. Our vendors are not ready to go to Edifact, but Sandy explained that the difference is just a "tweak." The hot news is that encryption methods to deal with the security issue are in testing, to be completed by the end of the year. By 1997 we should have secure EDI. The website to keep you informed is http://www.bisg.org (from the Book Industry Study Group). An interesting site with a link from the BISG site is at http://www.premenos.com. Sandy announced that the BISG site will give specifications to put in RFPs, so keep an eye on that website. Sandy also suggests getting your ILS user groups to invite book vendors to attend user group meetings as a way to educate them on EDI needs. ========================================= Lauren Corbett Collection Management Librarian Everett Library, Queens College Charlotte, NC Phone: 704 337-2278 Fax: 704 337-2517 ========================================== ****** END OF FILE ****** ACQNET, Vol. 6, No. 35 ****** END OF FILE ******