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Category Archives: e-resources

DeepDyve: Something You Should Know About

Dubbed “Netflix for researchers” by ReadWriteWeb, DeepDyve has expanded from deep web search of STM literature to an article rental service: for $.99 an article, you can have read access for 24 hours. Will researchers go for it?  Even independent researchers can frequently gain access to literature through the interlibrary loan service of their public [...]

ONIX-PL @ NASIG

Liveblogging Todd Carpenter on ONIX-PL
ONIX-PL is what you get when you combine licenses with XML
To license – give
To license – receive
A license
They are everywhere now – digital and physical, e.g. Turbo Tax and parking stickers
Talking about click-through licenses
But libraries have made massive investment negotiating. is it worthwhile? (Mentions SERU – an opportunity to move beyond [...]

You Can’t Spell Absence without Ab

My spouse and I have a running joke concerning all the words you can’t spell without ab: abnormal, fabulous, flab, absent… you get the idea. I certainly didn’t intend to go the better part of a year without posting, that’s for sure. Sorry for leaving you all with a cliffhanger. It turns [...]

What to Expect When You’re Expecting an ERM

One of the hardest things I’ve done professionally was to document and transfer to someone else the work of being an e-resources librarian. I knew what I did; I had e-mail and spreadsheets and gray hairs to prove it. But to set it all out for other people, to include the exceptions and [...]

Staying in Touch with the Users

I started my professional life as a cataloger. I have felt the push and pull of inter-departmental wranglings: “they don’t understand the value of what we do!” and “they don’t understand how people actually use the catalog!” Now that I’ll be helping e-resource librarians implement an ERM system and will no longer be [...]

NYPL Database Access

Did you know that any New York State resident can apply for a free New York Public Library card, which allows you to access some of their electronic resources from home? Among the databases are Ulrich’s, Rosetta Stone’s Online Language Learning Center, Library Lit, a bunch of Ebsco databases, and the Columbia Gazetteer, my [...]

Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar

This little note was squeezed into the middle of an All My Eye entry about Ingenta at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
We’ve been working closely with Google for over 2 years now, and the latest development is that we will be making our library holdings data available to Google Scholar’s Library Links program.
The full press [...]

Digital Preservation Workshop and Tutorial

I didn’t blog very much this month; the start of the school year is always a hectic time and we had what must have been a record number of technical problems with our e-resources. Besides that, I’ve been preparing for Cornell’s Digital Preservation Workshop, which requires completion of a pre-workshop tutorial and the reading [...]

Ab’s Laws of Electronic Resource Management

Since I am moving on from electronic resource management, I thought it would be a good time to share what I’ve learned over the past six years.
1. The more usage a particular e-journal gets, the greater the chance that the holdings statement will be incorrect.
Corollary: Journals used by faculty/board members on the library’s advisory committee [...]