Trends & challenges for electronic resource management. Jay Glaisyer Lynn Fortney

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1 Trends & challenges for electronic resource management Jay Glaisyer Lynn Fortney

2 Goals and challenges for medical librarians Provide quality information for improved healthcare Deal with increased complexity of managing electronic resources Supporting healthcare should take highest priority Are we nostalgic for the days of print?

3 Theme 1: Price increases and budget challenges Collection development decisions driven by price Price increases far higher than CPI 117 journals core clinical journals subset Most recent shows 40.2% increase over 4 years 22% now available electronically Variety of pricing and access models presents additional challenges

4 Theme 2: Electronic Resource Management Systems (ERMs) Challenge of tracking many 100s of data elements (pricing models, license terms etc) ERMs designed to meet this need Challenge of populating these ERMs (empty boxes) Trend towards automating transfer of data

5 ERMI and the E-journal life cycle Acquire Access Administer Support Evaluate Renew

6 ERMI - complexities and challenges 300 data elements Challenge of collecting and inputting data Additional challenge of consortia purchasing Complexity of publisher packages Importance of getting it right

7 EBSCO s ERM Essentials one possible solution 100 necessary data elements identified Supply terms Managing database renewals Access terms License details Publishers terms of use

8 EBSCO s ERM Essentials features & benefits EBSCO integral part of the supply chain Access to order history Integrated knowledgebase Focus on most requested/useful features Support for all e resources Automatic data population saves time

9 ERM Essentials consortium management features Most libraries purchase collaboratively ERM Essentials simplifies management of shared resources Permits participation in multiple consortia Confidential data kept confidential

10 ERM Essentials usage consolidation Usage is a key metric in collection development Usage consolidator informs and supports decisions about renewal, ensuring best use of budget Allows importing of COUNTER-compliant usage data SUSHI automates harvesting of data Cost per user and other relevant measures Flexible reporting

11 Title Usage Landing Page

12 ERM Essentials collection development tools Allows librarians to dig deeper Overlap analysis Restrictions on cancellation Jumping off point to impact factor and other measures of importance

13 EBSCO s integrated knowledgebase Details on packages Additional details obtained from publishers Specific financial information to your institution Automated population of many fields Viewing of vendors, databases, packages, titles, orders etc Ability to rename, reorder, suppress Task reminder

14 Theme 3: Athens authentication management system Single sign-on User associated with multiple licenses eg state, hospital allowing access to integrated resources Each license holder has Athens organisation identity more secure and more flexible than IP address ranges Individual customisable passwords Local support from EBSCO

15 Useful resources EBSCO s Price Projections Report: Price History for Core Clinical Journals in Medicine and Nursing: MLA list of publishers : Authors: lfortney@ebsco.com jglaisyer@ebsco.com