2.1Economic Context of Selection

 

 

Pricing Structures and Consortial Purchasing

ICOLC

Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information <http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html>

Publishing Initiatives

 

 

General Resources

ARL

Office of Scholarly Communcation <www.arl.org/scomm>;
Tempe Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing <http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html>;
SPARC <www.arl.org/sparc>;
Create Change <www.createchange.org>;
Declaring Independence <www.arl.org/sparc/DI>

E-print/e-publishing initiatives

California Digital Library

e-scholarship <http://escholarship.cdlib.org/>

 

LANL

Los Alamos Physics Preprint Database <http://arxiv.org>

 

NIH

PubMed Central <www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov>

 

Open Archives

Open Archives Initiative <www.openarchives.org>

Publishing initiatives

Big 12 Plus Consortium

BioOne <http://www.bioone.org>

 

Columbia

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)�� <http://www.ciaonet.org/>;
Columbia Earthscape <http://www.earthscape.org>

 

Cornell

Project Euclid <http://library6.library.cornell.edu/project/index.html>

 

Johns Hopkins

Project Muse <http://muse.jhu.edu>

 

Stanford

Highwire Press <http://highwire.stanford.edu>

 

2.2Selection Policies and Strategic Plans

California Digital Library

CDL Collection Framework <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/framework.pdf>;
CDC Principles for Acquiring and Licensing Information in Digital Formats <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Info/principles.html>;
Joint Steering Committee Criteria for Priority Selection <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/jsc/PriorityPoints.rtf>;
Tiered Approach for Access to Purchased Electronic Content <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/tiers.rtf>

 

Library of Congress

Collections Policy Statements: Electronic Resources <http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/devpol/electron.html>

 

MIT

Toward a Networked Resources Policy <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/policy.html>

 

Texas

General Libraries Digital Library Collection Development Framework; <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/cird/Policies/Subjects/framework.html>; General Libraries Electronic Journal Strategy <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/cird/ejournalstrategy.html>

 

USC

University of Southern California Library Collection Development Policy Statement for Information in Electronic Formats. <http://academic.uofs.edu/organization/codes/uscl.html>

 

Washington

Selection Guidelines for Internet Resources <http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/irc/policies/internetselguide.htm>

Evaluation Checklists

California Digital Library

Database Selection Criteria <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/system_services/tswg/database_selection_criteria.rtf>;
Resource Selection/Evaluation Criteria <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/system_services/tswg/Database_Selection_Criteria_v4.rtf>

 

Penn State

Evaluating Electronic Resources <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/select/manual/guide.htm>

 

Yale

Examining Networked Resources (includes checklists for Content, Presentation, Technical, Licensing and Business Arrangements, and Service Impacts) <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/ereschecklist.pdf>

Strategic Plans

California Digital Library

CDL Mission and Strategic Goals; <http://www.cdlib.org/about/planning/mission.html>

 

Carnegie Mellon

Digital Library Plan, 2000-2007 <http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/digitallibrary.pdf>

 

Cornell

Cornell University Library Digital Futures Plan: July 2000 to June 2002 <http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/CULDigitalFuturesPlan.html>

Strategic Plans (continued)

Illinois

University of Illinois Library Electronic Collections Plan (November 2000)

 

Library of Congress

LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. <http://books.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/1.html>

 

Virginia

Building the Library of Tomorrow <http://staff.lib.virginia.edu/LofT/>

2. 3 Institutional Finance and Organization

 

 

Funding/Budgeting Strategies

California Digital Library

Sharing Costs of Electronic Resources Among UC Campuses <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/toolkit/costshareweb.PDF>

 

MIT

Guiding Principles for Use of Central Networked Resources Fund <http://libraries.mit.edu/notice/netwguide.htm>

 

Yale

Central Fund for Multi-disciplinary Digital Resources (brief principles document for use of central fund); <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/Central%20Fund.html>

Committee Structures

California Digital Library

 

 

Cornell

Database Review Committee <http://www.englib.cornell.edu/cul/a2i/drc/default.html>;
Electronic Resources Committee <http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/ERC/ERC.html>

 

Harvard

Committee on Electronic Reference Service <http://hul.harvard.edu/cmtes/ulc/coers>

 

Michigan

Selection Structure (includes E-Team; Core Resources Team, Subject teams) <http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/staff/eresources/structure.htm>

 

MIT

NERD (Networked Electronic Resources Discussion Group)

 

Stanford

DLF Forum presentation from April 2000; (discusses committee structure, including Access to Information Committee; Resource Groups for Humanities, Social Science/Gov. Publications, Science and Engineering which deal with content and data appropriate to those areas.) <https://www.diglib.org/forums/spr2000/stanford/index.htm>

 

Yale

CoDGer (Committee for Digital General Resources) <http://www.library.yale.edu/CDC/public/subcommittees/codger/>

Selection roles

 

 

E-resource coordinators

Harvard

Coordinator for Digital Acquisitions (Ivy Anderson)

 

MIT

Assistant Acquisitions Librarians for Digital Resources (Ellen Durancea)

 

Stanford

Digital Library Program Officer (Paul Zarins)



Resource-specific coordination/stewardship

California Digital Library

Resource Liaisons <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/> (page includes Charge); <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/charge.rtf>;
Resource Liaisons and Usage Statistics) <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/UsageStatistics_Goals.rtf>

 

Harvard

Resource Stewardship Program <http://hul.harvard.edu/digacq/stewards.html>;
Responsibilities of Stewards and Coordinators; <http://hul.harvard.edu/cmtes/ulc/coers/stewards_coordinators.htm>;

Stewards� Checklist <http://hul.harvard.edu/cmtes/ulc/coers/checklist.htm>

 

MIT

Product Sponsor (see Partnership between Product Sponsor and Assistant Acquisitions Librarian for Digital Resources) <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/partnership.html>

 

Yale

Contact Information for Electronic Resources Licensed by Yale University Library <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/contactinfo.html>

2.4Internal Procedures for Evaluation and Purchase

 

 

e-Purchase Procedures

California Digital Library

CDL Acquisitions Procedures (rev. 1/5/2000); <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/acquisitions_proc.rtf>; Tier 2 Acquisitions Procedures <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/toolkit/cdltier2.rtf>

 

Michigan

Checklist for acquisition of e-resources <http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/staff/eresources/checklist.html>

 

MIT

Workflow Document (June 1998; updated 7/99) <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/erescat.htm>;
Vera Procedures for Subject Specialists <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/webgroup/vera/procedures.html>; Process Map <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/webmap.pdf>

 

e-Purchase Procedures (continued)

Penn State

Adding Electronic Resources <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/select/manual/guide2.htm>

 

Yale

Timeline for Selection of Electronic Resources <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/timeline.html>;
Electronic Resource Evaluation Checklists <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/ereschecklist.pdf>

e-Purchase Forms

Cornell

Networked Electronic Resource Form <http://www.library.cornell.edu/voyager/Order/netrescatform.html>

 

Harvard

Nomination form (Hollis Resource Acquisition Request) <http://hul.harvard.edu/digacq/nomination.html>

 

Michigan

E-Resources Processing Forms (includes Order/Cataloging form, Cataloging Only form and FAQ) <http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/staff/eresources/eresources_processing.htm>

 

MIT

New Electronic Resources: Proposal for Purchase <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/suggestedres.html>; Digital Resources Change Report Form <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/urlreportform.htm>

 

Texas

E-journal addition request/order form <http://staff.lib.utexas.edu/divisions/cird/Credits/serialorder.html>

 

Yale

E-resources order form for SML Selectors <http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/SMLeorders.pdf>

Vendor information pages

California Digital Library

CDL Content Provider Information Resource Page; includes Proposal Guidelines for Producers of Electronic Products. <http://www.cdlib.org/about/publisher_info_pub/>

 

Harvard

Instructions for vendors; includes Licensing Electronic Resources at Harvard University; Instructions for vendors (pdf); Technical questionnaire and ip ranges. <http://hul.harvard.edu/digacq/vendors.html>

 

Penn State

Internal pages listing IP ranges, etc.

Status Pages

California Digital Library

CDL �In Process� Collections (public and passworded update documents)

 

CIC

CIC Agreement Tracking Status Page <http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/cli/contracts/statpage.html>and
CIC Contract Tracking Homepage <http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/cli/contracts/index.html>

 

Status Pages (continued)

Texas

Collection Development and Management Group (CDMG) maintains a Potential Purchases page <http://staff.lib.utexas.edu/~dillon/databases.html>; License Tracker shows status through UT system
<http://pcl-a382.lib.utexas.edu/OnlineServices/search.html>;
License agreements; outline of license process. <http://staff.lib.utexas.edu/divisions/dlsd/dls/process/index.html>

Staff only trial pages

Harvard

Resources Under Consideration and on Trial (staff only); Prospective Hollis Resources

 

MIT

Networked Resources Page (has links to trials page and information on NERL and NELINET deals) <http://macfadden.mit.edu:9500/networked/>

Public trial pages

Emory

Trial Database option listed on gateway database list <http://www.library.emory.edu/IG/demodb.html>

 

Indiana

Experimental Projects: Trials and Demos (public) <http://www.indiana.edu/~libcodev/trials.html>

 

Penn State

 

 

Many (e.g.Texas, Yale, etc.)

Includes test databases in public e-resource lists.

2.5Licensing Issues and Practices

 

 

Model Licenses and Guidelines

CLIR

Liblicense website <http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/>;
CLIR/DLF Draft Model License <http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/modlic.shtml>

 

ARL

Licensing Issues page

<http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/index.html>;
Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources <http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/principles.html>

 

ICOLC

Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information <http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/statement.html>

 

California Digital Library

CDL Model License <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/toolkit/CDLModelLicense1-12-00.rtf>;

Checklist of Points to be Addressed in a CDL License Agreement <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/checklist.pdf>

Model Licenses and Guidelines (continued)

CIC

Standardized Agreement Language (Rev. May 17, 2000) <http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/cli/contracts/standardized_agreement_language.htm>

 

Harvard

Guidelines for Licensing Electronic Resources at Harvard University (staff only � password controlled)

Model Licenses and Guidelines (continued)

Washington

Information Resources Council Task Force on Electronic Information Acquisition and Licensing: Draft Principles, Guidelines and Checklists (An example of a policy still in process of discussion) <http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/irc/comm-taskforces/tf_licensing_checklists.html>

License Term Communication

 

 

General Disclaimers

MIT

E-journal and database browse pages have this header statement: �Use of many of these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the MIT community and to individuals who use the MIT Libraries� facilities.It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information.� <http://libraries.mit.edu/vera>

Intermediate Pages

Washington

Web of Science page <http://www.lib.washington.edu/databases/isi/wos.html>;
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe page <http://www.lib.washington.edu/databases/LexisNexis/>

Key/excerpted terms to staff/users

California Digital Library

E-Journal ILL List
<http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/E-Journal_ILL.html>

 

MIT

Has �Ill: resources that allow interlibrary loan� with specifics <http://libraries.mit.edu/verareports>

 

VIVA

ILL Provisions in VIVA�s contracts for Full Text Resources <http://www.gmu.edu/library/fen/viva/illcontr.html>

 

Yale

Electronic Database and Journal Licensing Information by Vendor (shows copy, download ILL, coursepack, etc. permissions) <<http://www.library.yale.edu/journals/licensing.html>

Link to license text or images

California Digital Library

CDL Redacted License Agreements <http://libnet.ucsd.edu/cdl/licenses.html>

 

MIT

Public lists of databases and e-journals (see http://www.libraries.mit.edu/vera) contain an �L� icon when license terms are available.Also provides �License Agreements (links to licenses we have scanned)� for staff.

2.6Web Presentation Strategies

 

 

General

Penn

Communities of Interest as organizing principle/idea; prioritized lists of e-resources by community.(See DLF Forum Presentation: �Let�s Get Together; Or, How to Integrate Library Resources so Our Users Can Find Them�) <https://www.diglib.org/forums/fall00/ockerbloom.htm>

Personalization (�My Gateway�)

California Digital Library

MyLibrary@CDL Release Notes <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/july2000/mylibrary/>

 

Cornell

MyLibrary@Cornell (no access without Cornell authorization) <MyLibrary@Cornell>

 

N.C. State

MyLibrary@NCState <MyLibrary@NCState>

 

Washington

Why use My gateway? (includes link to temporary guest account option) <http://www.lib.washington.edu/resource/help/MyGateway.html>; My UW <http://myuw.washington.edu/>; About My UW. <http://myuw.washington.edu/about.html>

Aggregator Content Listings

 

Aggregator contents represented in online catalog or web gateway lists

 

Yale

JAKE (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment); customizable for various local environments <http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html>; Jake2marc (utility for generating marc records from the JAKE database) <http://www.lib.sfu.ca/kiosk/mjordan/jake/>

 

Various

Incorporation of vendor MARC records (e.g. Bell & Howell�s program) or alternate record sets (e.g. the Bryn Mawr/Haverford set for Academic Universe)

E-journal links to A & I Services

PubMed

LinkOut function.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/linkoutoverview.html#Libraries>

 

DLF

NISO/DLF/CrossRef Workshop on Localization in Reference Linking Meeting Report <http://www.niso.org/CNRI-mtg.html>

Metadata Harvesting and Open Archives Initiative

ARL

The Case for Creating a Scholars Portal to the Web: A White Paper (Jerry Campbell) <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/211/portal.html>

 

Metadata Harvesting and Open Archives Initiative (continued)

DLF

The Open Archives Initiative and Digital Libraries <https://www.diglib.org/architectures/mdharvest.htm>;
A New Approach to Finding Research Materials on the Web <https://www.diglib.org/architectures/vision.htm>;
DLF evaluation of the Open Archives Initiative <https://www.diglib.org/architectures/testbedpv.htm>

2.7User Support

 

 

General

MIT

Support for End-users of Libraries� Networked Resources

 

Washington

Known Issues and Bugs <http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/knownissues/>;
Connecting to the Libraries <http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/connect.html>;
Proxy Server Wizard (includes link to browser compatibility test page) <http://www.lib.washington.edu/asp/browser/proxy.asp>

Escalation/triage paths

California Digital Library

Problem triage chart under discussion

 

Cornell

Library Gateway User Support Procedures Outline <http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/hlm7/GWSupportOutline.htm>; Library Gateway Standard Responses
<http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/hlm7/GWStandardResponses.htm>

 

MIT

Vendor Contact Information for Tech Support (provides internal �escalation path� plus vendor contact details.) <http://creek.mit.edu:591/mitlibweb/FMPro?-db=Resource.fp3&-lay=web&-format=vendorlist.htm&-view>

 

Penn State

Contact page for librarians and staff.

2.8Ongoing Evaluation and Usage Information

ICOLC

Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-based Indexed, Abstracted, and Full Text Resources, (Nov. 1998) <http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html>

 

ARL

Measures for Electronic Resources (E-Metrics) <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/>

 

ARL

ARL E-metrics Project: Developing Statistics and Performance Measures to Describe Electronic Information Services and Resources for ARL Libraries (Jeff Shim, Chuck McClure, John Bertot, et al., Nov. 2000) <http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/phaseone.pdf>

 

CLIR

White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics (Judy Luther, Oct. 2000) <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub94/contents.html>

 

California Digital Library

CDL Statistics (much is password protected) <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/stats>

 

Harvard

HOLLIS and HOLLIS Plus Statistics <http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/services/reporting/rptstats.html>

 

Penn

(need citation and link here)

Planned/cyclic reviews prior to renewal

California Digital Library

CDL Contract Renewal Dates <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/Renewal_dates.html>

 

Harvard

Re-evaluation of Digital Resources <http://hul.harvard.edu/cmtes/ulc/coers/Re-evaluation1.htm>

2.9Preservation and Archiving

CLIR and DLF

Minimum Criteria for an Archival Respository of Digital Scholarly Journals.<https://www.diglib.org/preserve/criteriapv.htm>

 

 

A Framework for Sharing Digital Preservation Practice. <https://www.diglib.org/preserve/pracsharepv.htm>

 

CURL (Consortium of University and Research Libraries)

CEDARS Project (CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives) <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/>

 

Cornell

Project PRISM (Preservation, Reliability, Interoperability, Security, and Metadata) <http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/prism.html>

 

Michigan and Leeds

CAMiLEON (Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New) Project. <http://129.11.152.25/CAMiLEON/>

 

National Library of Australia

Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections. Exposure Draft, 2000. <http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/pmeta.html>

 

NEDLib (Networked European Deposit Library)

Metadata for Long Term Preservation, 2000. <http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/results/preservationmetadata.pdf>

An Experiment in Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications. (Jeff Rothenberg, April 2000) <http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf>

 

Stanford

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) <http://lockss.stanford.edu/>

 

2.10Toward Integrated Systems for Managing Electronic Resources

System Comparison Chart

Appendix B; includes output/functions and data elements