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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN E-JOURNAL MANAGEMENT. Evelinde Hutzler, University Library Regensburg Don Panzera, Library of Congress. Presentation Overview. The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) -- Electronic Journals Library -- and the Library of Congress
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN E-JOURNAL MANAGEMENT Evelinde Hutzler, University Library Regensburg Don Panzera, Library of Congress
Presentation Overview • The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) -- Electronic Journals Library -- and the Library of Congress • Cooperative e-journal management in the EZB • EZB user functionality • EZB and vascoda • Joint project • Q&A/Discussion ALA, Boston 2005
EZB is a Cooperative Library Service…. • Developed and managed by the University Library Regensburg, Germany • Supported by German Research Foundation and Federal Ministry of Education and Research. • 291 members: 290 European, 1 North American ALA, Boston 2005
…Building Access through Collaboration • Constant enlargement of the title content • Cooperative collection of the e-journals • Tools for license and access information administration for each of 291 EZB member institutions • Integration of local requirements ALA, Boston 2005
Collaboratively Maintaining the Database • Collaborative maintenance of the bibliographic metadata • Effective updating of the URLs • Saving of labor for each EZB member • High database quality and user satisfaction ALA, Boston 2005
LC’s “Sutton Strategy” • EZB Database = Research value • 20,600 e-journals • 8,000 full text at no direct cost • 2,300 born digital • supplementary 21,000 titles in aggregator databases ALA, Boston 2005
Exchanging Digital for Print? • LC exchange receipts in 2004 = 32% of the 1994 total • LC/ELAD’s serial exchange receipts dropped by 8000 titles – 50%+ -- between 1998 and 2004 • How many have gone digital? ALA, Boston 2005
Scholarly Communication & the EZB free e-journal database • Academic publishers: 35% • Non-profit organizations: 30% • Governments: 9% • Commercial publishers: 12% • Corporations: 6% • “Other”: 8% ALA, Boston 2005
Non-Commercial Content.… • EZB freely accessible e-journals • Place of publication: • Germany: 24% • U.S.: 23% • 19 other countries: 53% • Language • English: 46% • German: 30% • Spanish: 15% • 6 Other: 9% ALA, Boston 2005
EZB Membership Has Its Rewards • Free access to the EZB database • Persistent URLs • License and holdings data from the other 290 members • E-journal metadata: MARC 21 bibliographic records from the Deutsche Bibliothek • Contact with other German national and research libraries ALA, Boston 2005
EZB Costs • Direct cost of membership: $0. • Database maintenance: .25 FTE • Other membership responsibilities: .25 FTE ALA, Boston 2005
E-Journal Management • EZB collaborative e-journal management • EZB user functionality • EZB as part of digital libraries • Connection between EZB and library catalogs • EZB Linking in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005
EZB user functions EZB offers: • Stuctured access to scholarly e-journals • Freely available e-journals together with licensed ones under a standardized user interface • Browsing in subject and alphabetical lists • Search functions • User information about access ALA, Boston 2005
Browsing by subject lists 41 subjects ALA, Boston 2005
Biological e-journals ALA, Boston 2005
Direct link to the homepage Direct link to the journal homepage ALA, Boston 2005
Access Information access information ALA, Boston 2005
Green: free e-journal the full texts are freely available Yellow: licensed for the libraryfull texts can be accessed by the institutional users Red: without a subscription full text access is not possible Yellow/Red: The institution has no continuous subscription on this journal. Therefore, only some of the published volumes are accessible as full texts. License / Access Information Access information in the EZB is shown by a traffic light symbol ALA, Boston 2005
Readme links Readme links provide detailed access and user information ALA, Boston 2005
EZB search functions ALA, Boston 2005
EZB web pages for each member EZB / University Library Regensburg EZB / Library of Congress Local access information for each EZB member ALA, Boston 2005
EZB as part of digital libraries • Link between the EZB and library catalogs • Connection between EZB and digital libraries, e.g. vascoda ALA, Boston 2005
Linking to library catalogs From the catalog entry via persistent URL to the EZB to the journal homepage ALA, Boston 2005
EZB and vascoda • vascoda: interdisciplinary internet portal for scholarly information in Germany (www.vascoda.de) • vascoda is the nucleus of the German Digital Library • Partners of vascoda • More than 40 rsearch libraries, technical information centers and other information institutions • EZB is a partner of vascoda ALA, Boston 2005
Connecting vascoda and EZB From the search in vascoda digital libraries ALA, Boston 2005
EZB linking in vascoda to the result list in vascoda ALA, Boston 2005
EZB linking in vascoda From the result list in vascoda via EZB Link ALA, Boston 2005
EZB Linking to the EZB License information for the article Link to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005
EZB Article Linking From EZB to the article full text ALA, Boston 2005
EZB Linking via Open URL • EZB connects bibliographic references to full texts in e-journals • EZB informs users about the accessibility of the article • EZB links to the full texts in e-journals on various levels • Deep article linking for 8.000 e-journals • Linking to issues, volumes or to the journal home page • Linking to free and licensed full texts ALA, Boston 2005
International Electronic Exchange (IEX) Pilot Project • Purpose: Share the burden of obtaining, maintaining, preserving, and providing ongoing access to information products of research value • Reduce processing costs • Provide more timely access • Scope: Government e-journals ALA, Boston 2005
Library of Congress U.S. Government Printing Office (NLM) (NAL) Die Deutsche Bibliothek State Library in Berlin EZB (Bavarian State Library) IEX Participants ALA, Boston 2005
IEX Pilot Project • Objectives: • Exchange access to content • Exchange intellectual property rights to enable downloading and maintenance • Exchange pertinent metadata • Develop (more) interoperable IT systems • Cooperative reference service ALA, Boston 2005
Why Germany? • EZB partnership • Interest on the part of the national libraries • Develop a business model that will work for other national libraries ALA, Boston 2005
Thank you for your attention ! • Contact / LC • Don PanzeraLibrary of Congresse-mail: dpan@lov.gov • Contact / EZB • Dr. Evelinde HutzlerUniversity Library Regensburge-mail: evelinde.hutzler@bibliothek.uni-regensburg.deURL of EZB: www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/ ALA, Boston 2005