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How to make your e-resources earn their keep

How to make your e-resources earn their keep. Ruth Stubbings UK Serials group seminar 2003. e-resources earning their keep. what e-resources? journals and databases monitor usage stats & value for money promotion of resources Database of the Month MetaLib & SFX. MetaLib and SFX.

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How to make your e-resources earn their keep

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  1. How to make your e-resources earn their keep Ruth Stubbings UK Serials group seminar 2003

  2. e-resources earning their keep • what e-resources? • journals and databases • monitor usage stats & value for money • promotion of resources • Database of the Month • MetaLib & SFX

  3. MetaLib and SFX • MetaLib • portal of all our databases • simultaneous searching of Z39.50 compliant databases • SFX • links article records to library catalogue and/or e-journals • open URL

  4. Implementation of MetaLib • large team approach • Systems, Support Services & Academic Librarians • long time scale • March – September • smaller, separate team implemented SFX

  5. Discussions • Look and feel • Branding • Contents (electronic & print) • Authentication (VLE username & password) • Library’s web pages (which should exist) • Information literacy skills

  6. Cataloguing & configuring • cataloguing easy • form driven • quality & content • testing • configuration difficult • who should configure? • technical staff / academic librarians • how many databases are Z39.50 compliant?

  7. Pilot of MetaLib and SFX • 3 Academic Departments • focus groups • questionnaire • positive feedback

  8. “Live” and maintenance • “Live” in September 2002 • Training • generic and departmental (80 participants to 3 sessions) • Handout http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/dbase/metalib.html • Online tutorial http://inhale.hud.ac.uk/perl/jump.pl?13-56 • Enquiries • easier to answer • smaller MetaLib group • on average half a day per week • upgraded June & November 2003

  9. Statistics • increase in usage of databases • 609%

  10. usage up Zetoc 1385% SportDiscus 1207% ICEA 225% INSPEC 73% OCLC 79% ABES 36% IBSS 31% Beilstein 23% usage down Psycinfo -63% Lexis-Nexis -51% Mintel -36% RAPRA -31% UKOP -6% Art Abstracts -12% Compendex -4% Stats by database

  11. June July August September October ArticleFirst Zetoc ArticleFirst ArticleFirst ArticleFirst Zetoc ArticleFirst Zetoc Zetoc Zetoc IBSS IBSS IBSS IBSS Ante OPAC ASSIA ASSIA ABM IBSS Ante Ante Ante OPAC ASSIA ASSIA OPAC OPAC Ante OPAC Compendex Inspec Inspec ASSIA Inspec Inspec Compendex Compendex Inspec SportDiscus BHI SportDiscus BHI Ceramic Abs Medline Medline Medline SportDiscus Compendex BioSci Comp & Info Eng Mat Medline Medline Compendex BioSci Polymer Polymer SportDiscus Comp & Info Top ten databases in 2003

  12. What does this mean? • students • less googlisation? • cross searchable versus most appropriate? • Researchers & academics • using MetaLib cross search more than anticipated

  13. The future • investigate: • usage stats for e-journals • searching behaviour of readers • incorporate new features of MetaLib • e-journals

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