LIS 454 Class 9

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LIS 454 Class 9

• Impact of networked electronic resources on
  public services
• Access management
• Usage statistics

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E-journals and the international arena
E-journals
Lack of discussion
Access
Developing nations
Industrial nations
Discussion levels
Discussion levels
Language
Economics, archival policies, homogeneity of
collections
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Resources

• Coalition for Networked Information
• Liblicense Licensing Digital Information
• http//lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/databases.swf
• Gold Rush
• White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage
  Statistics
• Web Analytics Managing the Digital Enterprise
  Professor Michael Rappa
• ICOLC Statement on Electronic Information

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Access management

• It is about who should have access to what and
  how access should be managed.
• For example, the access needs for ARL
  institutions are impressive. Expenditures on
  e-resources are huge.

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Licensing-Usage-Access
Licensing
Access
Usage
Budget and finance
Library instruction
Librarians expertise
Library staff
End-user interest
Research trends and curricula
Standards and benchmarks
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Hunter, K. (2005). Access management challenging
orthodoxies. Journal of Library Administration,
42(2).

• Increased use Increased value (USAGE)
• If value increases, that value should be
  reflected in some way financiallyyou should be
  able to monetize the increase in value.
• Every year I expect to have more use and more
  functionality and perhaps even more content (at
  least within the same set of titles) for the same
  or less money

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The Bad according to Hunter.

• Elsevier is big ()therefore is accused of
  monopoly power. Microsoft is big and therefore
  bad. How about IBM? Or the State of CA, which I
  believe has 25 of the members of the National
  Academy of Sciences? Heck, what about the USA,
  which typically produces 35 and 45 of the
  research in most disciplines? Surely, that means
  that the U.S is big, monopolistic, and bad.

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A Snapshot in Time ARL libraries and electronic
journal resources/ Mary Case/2004

• Between 1994/95 and 2001/2002 expenditures on
  e-resources by research libraries grew 400.
• E-journals account for 92 of the money spent in
  2001/2002.
• Total number spent in 2001/2002 almost 1.4
  million.
• The most common duration of license agreements
  was one year.

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Beware of The Big Deal

• Journal Packages
• Multiple-year subscriptions
• Cancellation limitation clauses

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Usage strongly related to access management

• ILL
• Electronic reserves (a privilege!)
• Course packs (almost like selling crack)
• Distance education
• Remote access

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Non disclosure clauses

• They prohibit subscribers from comparing terms to
  determine if they actually received the best deal
  available.
• State laws may prohibit those clauses
• The best Anti-consortia tool invented.

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Access management

• It requires a deep understanding of licensing,
  its conditions, and vocabulary.
• Appendix D. Data Element Dictionary. Electronic
  Resource Management. The Report of the DLF
  Initiative.
• Appendix E. ERMS Data Structure. Electronic
  Resource Management. The Report of the DLF
  Initiative.

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Some innovations Shibboleth

• Shibboleth Open source standards-based access
  management solution based on SAML.
• It provides access to electronic content on the
  basis of individual users attributes (staff,
  employee, student, alum, etc.) rather than
  personal credentials of the individual, network,
  or generic password.

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Advantages

• More clear and simplified user authentication.
• Keeping the privacy an important feature of
  access to information

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Managing access also involves security

• Who may hack a library literature database?
• Identification
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Accountability

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Some basic security principles

• Are the people using their services who they
  claim to be?
• Are they members of our community?
• Do they have permissions to use these services?
• Is their privacy being protected? (Why is this
  important?)

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Some basic words

• Identification The act of pre-assigning a unique
  marker or token (username) to an individual, etc.
• Authentication The act of validating that an
  entity producing a token is the one to which the
  token was assigned.

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Some basic words

• Authorization The act of ensuring that the
  entity is afforded access only to the services
  and data required to support allowed tasks.
• Accountability appropriate administration of
  identification, authentication, and
  authorization, ensuring that only the authorized
  entity can exercise its individual authority.

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Electronic journal usage stats (Luther)

• Lack of comparable data ( you are hiding
  something from me)
• Lack of context (how should we measure activity?)
• Incomplete usage data (data in various forms and
  formats)
• Marketing ( The infomercial factor)
• Content Provided (delays and embargos)
• Interface affecting usage (user experience)

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Electronic journal usage stats

• Economic model (Journal title unit of analysis)
• User privacy (are you being monitored? The legal
  obligation of protecting the users identity).
• Login in as a user.

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My profile some strategies
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Library issues

• Budget justification
• What is it?
• Library instruction for electronic resources

• Impact on selection
• What is the impact about?
• Current holding are too limited and users select
  articles from databases no available at the
  library
• User driven vs. publisher driven

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Julia Blixrud ARL and academic libraries

• The problem inconsistent and unreliable data on
  electronic use.
• Collection of data to determine if the increasing
  amount of money being paid for electronic
  resources was in fact well-spent.

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Data for what?

• Funding libraries need to prove that
  expenditures are justified.
• Funding libraries need to demonstrate that users
  want and use the electronic information and
  services being provided.
• Funding libraries have to compete for resources.
• Benchmarking purposes

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Managerial decisions

• What difference does it make? Administrative
  clarity regarding the assessment program. (This
  is a management issue).
• Libraries need to make data available to those
  who do administrative decision making).

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Read (choose only three or pick an oucast),
integrate very graciously, and email comments
for next class.

• Peter, T. (2003). Was that the Rubicon, Lethe, or
  Styx we just crossed? Access conditions for
  E-content. Library Collections, Acquisitions
  Technical Services, 27, 213-223.
• (2004). Carrico, J. Licensed to ILL A beginning
  guide to negotiating e-resources licenses to
  permit resource sharing. Journal of library
  Administration, 40 (1/2), 41-54.

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More chances to be gracious

• Hunter, K. (2005). Access management challenging
  orthodoxies. Journal of Library Administration,
  42 (2), 57-70.
• Fowler, D. C. (2005). Licensing An historical
  perspective. Journal of Library Administration,
  42 (3/4), 177-197.
• Gerhard, K. (2005). Pricing models for electronic
  journals and other electronic academic materials
  The state of the Art. Journal of Library
  Administration,(3/4), 1-25.

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As a reference only

• Emery, J. (2005). Is our best good enough?
  Educating End-Users about licensing terms.
  Journal of Library Administration, 42 (3), 27-39.