E-Resources Management for

Academic Research

Dr. I.R.N. Goudar

Visiting Professor and Library Adviser University of Mysore, Mysore

Formerly Scientist ‘G’ and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore goudarishwar@gmail.com

9th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar on

Digital Information Services in Academic and R&D Information Centers

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore November 23, 2013

How user may search… for a single title or article

• Online catalogue,

• Web list (A to Z List),

• Aggregated databases,

• Publisher's Platform,

• Internet search engine,

• Meta-search engine,

• IR /IR harvesters,

• E-resource gateway/Portals

• Subject directories/gateways,

• Directories indexing articles,

• Institutional/Departmental/Personal Web sites

E-Resources: Issues Complex - to describe, fund, acquire license and

support

• Budget issues driving shift to e-only journal access.

The number of licensed e-resources acquired by

libraries is growing geometrically.

So is the case with open access e-resources, with much more complexities

- Majority of OA E-resources are from smaller,

individual, or governmental publishers

- No platform of their own nor indexed by well-

known I and A services

• ERMs try to give solutions for such problems.

ERM Functions (Like ILMS)

Selection and evaluation • Acquisition and invoicing Access provision • Configuration and set up Discovery / Public access • Licensing information Access management • Title/Publisher changes Usage monitoring • Renewals • Problem resolution • Contact Management • Workflow management

Discovery Tools

Traditional Discovery Model of Libraries

FULL-TEXT

• Library Collection & ILL Services

METADATA

• OPAC

• Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) Services

Content Repository

(Annual Reviews)

CONTENT BOX

METADATA

SEARCH BOX

INDEX to Repository

INDEX to METADATA

USER INTERFACE

SEARCH RESULTS

A Simple Discovery Model

Federated Discovery Services

Federated Search Engine Query Results

Search Engine 1

Index

Content Rep. 1

Search Engine 2

Index

Content Rep. 2

Search Engine N

Index

Content Rep. N

Content

Content

Repository-1

Metadata

Index Aggregation Model

INDEX

Content

Repository-2

Content

Metadata

INDEX AGGREGATON

INDEX

Unified Search Index

Web-scale Search Search:

Digital Collections

ProQuest

EBSCOhost

… MLA

Bibliography

ABC-CLIO

Search Results

Pre-built harvesting and indexing

Consolid

ate

d In

dex

ILS Data

Federated Search vs. Discovery Services

Federated Search Discovery Service

Index No Index One unified index

Sources No limit Agreements Must

Content Bias None Possibly

Information Currency Real-time return Depends on index update

Preparation Connector Development

Index Development

Speed 2 – 30 seconds 1 – 2 seconds

Control Select sources No ability to select

De-dooping Possible - Limited Possible - Limited

Relevance Ranking Possible - Limited Possible - Limited

Alerts Yes Some

Ideal Discovery Model Combination of Aggregation and federation

1. Create Content Clusters through Aggregation

Cluster Examples could be: Journals-J-gate,

DOAJ, IR Harvesters like OAIster & BASE,

Specific IR Harvesters of Theses, Tech Reports,

Patents, etc

2. Federate the Aggregated Content Clusters

Open Access Statistics OA Registry/Harvester Statistics Source World-IRs Indian-IRs World-Articles

DOAR 2373 62

ROAR 3479 98

BASE 2,682 58 50 M

Journal Statistics DOAJ Total JL Article Level JL Articles Countries India 9938 5137 1171532 120 647

J-Gate+ World India

Total 35,000 2800

OA 15,500 1800

OA Scholarly 10,300 1200

Boosting E-Resources Usage:

UoM Experience

E-Resources@UoM • Subscribed/Purchased

E- Journals >6500 (Inflibnet & UoM)

Databases >10 (Inflibnet)

E-Books >18000 (UoM)

- Springer, Wiley, T & F, CRC Press

• Open Access

E-Journals >12,000

E-Books >20 Lacs

E-Theses - (Vidyanidhi, Shodhganga, NDLTD)

Institutional Repositories, Harvesters

E-Newspapers, News Channels

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

2009 2010 2011 2012

University of Mysore

Kuvempu University

Karnatak University

Bangalore University

Mangalore University

Gulbarga University

Davangere University

Central University of Karnataka

2,25,373

87,527

85,253

81,432

79,463

41,217 17,670

8,816

Figures ( 2012)

Central University

DOWNLOADS

Years

UGC–INFONET: Usage Statistics Universities in Karnataka

Downloads – Journal Articles and Database Search

OPAC ACCESS

OPAC

UGL (Maharaja’s College Campus)+ 4 Colleges

BIMS+ 12 Institutions

KOHA

Departmental Libraries (37)

Cloud Computing Amazon’s EC 2 Platform

University Library (Main)

3 PG Centres

OPAC ACCESS

AUTOMATION MODEL: UOM LIBRARIES

Staff Client

Centralised Database

Decentralised Input, House Keeping

Web OPAC and Access to E-Books Combined catalogue of 57 Libraries under UoM > 1,21,000 hits for the last 16 months Full text Access to > 18,000 E-Books through Metadata Aggregation

UoM ICT Infrastructure • Presently 120 PCs (350 soon) with Internet

browsing facility at DIRC of Library with

600 visitors/day

• Additionally departmental Internet facility

• Campus Wide Wifi Connectivity

• NKN and Private ISP services

• Facility including WiFi extended to all PG Campuses, Constituents Colleges and Institutes

E-RESOURCES FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED (LRC)

New MUL Website

E-RESOURCES PORTAL

Single point access to thousands of e-journals, e-

books, e-theses

• Campus wide (28,000 Hits since 6 months) and Off-campus access (24000 Hits) to residences, hostels, etc

>6500 subscribed e-journals of >20 publishers and

>12,000 open access e-journals

>18000 e-books of 4 publishers and >20 lacs open access e-books

Access to thousands of e-Theses, Academic Blogs world over

Access to Institutional Repositories of Indian Universities/Institutions and Harvesters

E-RESOURCES PORTAL: Campus Access

E-Resources Portal: Off Campus Access

Appropriate Tools for Facilitating Usage of E-Resources

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Search Engines

Search engines are popular tools for locating web pages, but they often return thousands of results.

Search of e-resources are

more effective if you know how to talk to the computer systems.

Communicating with

these systems requires knowing certain basic search techniques.

Subject Based Information Gateways Web sites that act as a gateway to other

sites and information resources.

• Rely on human creation of meta data

• Selective catalogues

• Subject experts select, evaluate, describe, classify

• Smaller, subject-focused databases

• Lower recall, higher precision

• High quality information – selected by human subject experts

• Good starting places that lead to other quality resources

E.g. PINAKES (information gateway !)

SUBJECT GATEWAYS ALONG WITH LOGOS http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html#about

N-List http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/eresource.php

BASE http://www.base-search.net/

Google Scholar

Directory of Open Access Books www.doabooks.org/

http://www.ndltd.org/ Find, create, disseminate and preserve ETDs world over Setting up an ETD program Legal and technical questions Links to Various ETD Servers in the world

Shodgganga: UGC-INFLIBNET Initiative http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

INFOMINE: Social Sciences and Humanities http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=liberal

UC Press E-Books Collection http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/

SCIRUS http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue2/sosig

eGyanKosh http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

National Digital Repository of digital learning resources

Sakshat http://www.sakshat.ac.in/

WIKIBOOKS http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Internet Public Library (ipl2) http://www.ipl.org/index.html

NSDL http://nsdl.org/

Basically Metadata Harvester for Open Educational Resources

NSDL ….. contd

Open Access Journals Search Engine: Social Science

http://oajse.com/subjects/social_sciences.html

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TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/

Demos • DOAJ, DOAB, American Libraries, Eprints@UoM,

Google Scholar,

• Internet Public Library (ipl2): http://www.ipl.org/index.html

• NSDL: http://nsdl.org/

• OA Journals Search Engine: http://oajse.com/index.html