Hazel Woodward

Electronic Journals in an Academic Library Environment

Describes the development and implementation of an electronic journal service within the Pilkington Library at Loughborough University and the preliminary findings of the Cafe Jus research project which is investigating user reactions to electronic journals.

The National E-Books Observatory Project: Examining Student Behaviors and Usage

The Joint Information Systems Committee National e-Books Observatory Project will assess the impacts, observe behaviors, and develop new models to stimulate the U.K. higher education e-books market. The project has licensed a collection of e-books that are highly relevant to U.K. higher education in four disciplines and will evaluate the use of the e-books through deep log analysis. Knowledge acquired during the project will be shared with publishers, aggregators, and libraries to help encourage the development of an e-book market that has appropriate business and licensing models.

Electronic journals - The librarian's viewpoint

Librarians are adapting to the new methods of communication. Information must be quickly and easily available to support research teaching and learning. The current situation is reviewed followed by some thoughts about the way forward.

The COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works ― a primer

Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works was published in 2006 and provides an international standard for vendor recording and reporting of the usage of e-books and reference works. By July 2009, 23 vendors were compliant with this Code of Practice. It has much in common with the well-established COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases but it also has a number of important features that take into account the greater diversity of e-books. This article provides a guide to the Code of Practice for both vendors and librarians, and addresses compliance issues relevant to both groups.

The UK's National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative (NESLI)

Summary In 1998 the UK created the National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative (NESLI) to increase and improve access to electronic journals and to negotiate license agreements on behalf of academic li braries. The use of a model license agreement and the success of site li censing is discussed. Highlights from an interim evaluation by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are noted and key issues and questions arising from the evaluation are identified.

To Boldly Go Beyond Downloads: How Are Journal Articles Shared and Used?

With more scholarly journals being distributed electronically rather than in print form, we know that researchers download many articles. What is less well known is how journal articles are used after they are initially downloaded. To what extent are they saved, uploaded, tweeted, or otherwise shared? How does this reuse increase their total use and value to research and how does it influence library usage figures? University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir, Professor Suzie Allard, and Adjunct Professor David Nicholas are leading a team of international researchers on a the project, “Beyond Downloads,” funded by a grant from Elsevier. The project will look at how and why scholarly electronic articles are downloaded, saved, and shared by researchers. Sharing in today’s digital environment may include links posted on social media, like Twitter, and in blogs or via e‐mail. Having a realistic estimate of this secondary use will help provide a more accurate picture of the total use of scholarly articles. The speakers will present the objectives of the study, share the approach and avenues of exploration, and report on some preliminary findings. Furthermore, the speakers will discuss how the potential learnings could yield benefits to the library community.

NESLI - The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative....Creating a Bit of a Disturbance

NESLI is disturbing the status quo in scholarly publishing by negotiating at national level for the provision of e-journals to UK higher education institutions. Through these negotiations and value-added services, NESLI will promote co-ordinated access, delivery and management for electronic journals

The Impact of Electronic Information on Serials Collection Management

Electronic information and the growth of networks are beginning to have a major impact upon the process of scholarly communication and the development and management of library serial collections. This paper examines the various types of electronic serials currently available and discusses issues relating to storage, access, selection, acquisition, bibliographical control, training and resource allocation. Discussion of current alerting and document supply services (CASIAS) highlights the impact such services are having on library serial holdings and collections.

The Secret Life of Articles: From Download Metrics to Downstream Impact

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Dissemination Models in Scholarly Communication

Welcome to this special themed issue of New Review of Academic Librarianship. When the editor, Graham Walton, contacted me, way back in December 2009, to ask if I would be prepared to be guest editor for a themed issue on “Dissemination Models in Scholarly Communication,” I was very happy to accept. When it was further explained that this issue was to be sponsored by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in order that it could be made immediately available on open access, I was even happier. So, the first thing I should say is a big thank you to JISC for the sponsorship and support that they have given all along the production route. It was agreed at an early stage that we would produce a call for papers for the issue and this was done in March 2010. We were delighted that the call attracted 26 proposals for papers from around the globe. The high quality and significance of the proposals made the selection process difficult, but as you can see, we have eventually published 11 papers on a range of issues relating to the theme of disseminating scholarly communications. Without doubt, the scholarly communication process is changing. Open access is clearly beginning to impact traditional publishing models, challenging commercial and not-for-profit journals and book publishers alike. The role of librarians in championing open access through the setting-up and populating of institutional repositories (IRs) and undertaking advocacy campaigns within their institutions is making an impact. Academics attitudes to open access are changing (albeit slower than many might have hoped) and many academic institutions are taking up the baton with a number of leading institutions across the globe mandating deposit in IRs. The role of research funding bodies is