NOSP

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NOSP

• Unni Knutsen
• National Library of Norway
• Oslo Division

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NOSP - background

• NOSP and Nordinfo
• NOSP service since 1977
• National Library of Norway is hosting the
  NOSP-Center, 1993-
• NOSP an important ILL tool within Nordic libraries

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NOSP - database 2002

• National union catalogues for periodicals
• ISSN database from the ISSN center in Paris
• Merging of records
• Access to ISSN periodicals
• Access to non-ISSN records

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NOSP - products 2002

• NOSP on Web
• NOSP Directory to Nordic and Baltic Libraries

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NOSP - costs of use 2002

• Searching is free of charge
• NOK 500,- per year for ordering up to 100 copies,
  NOK 5,- for additional copies
• Other costs related to document delivery

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NOSP - other channels

• Danbib
• Libris

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NOSP - use 2002

• Frequency of use
• Patterns of use

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The serial environment

• From paper issue to e-journal
• New concepts continuing resources and
  integrating resources
• Change in roles of actors
• New channels for publishing
• Less quality control in publishing

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NOSP study 2002 - why?

• Do we need NOSP?
• Change of technology?
• NOSP for librarians or end users?
• New services?
• Organisation and economy?
• NORON / Nordinfo

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NOSP study 2002 - the process

• Brodd
• Preliminary survey - peer users
• Internet based study
• Survey open from 1. October - 18. October 2002 at
  www.questback.com/BRODD/NOSP2002
• Links from www.nb.no and from www.brodd.no to the
  survey

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Trends - preliminary results
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Vital factors in ILL work

• User demands and expectations
• Time
• Costs
• Moment of truth between library and library
  user
• NOSP study 2002 confirms this

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ILL statistics

• Decrease in total number of ILL requests
• Increase in ILL requests sent abroad (outside
  Nordic countries)

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Use of NOSP

• NOSP part of Danbib and Libris
• Important to have access to both ISSN and
  non-ISSN periodicals

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The competition

• End users find information directly on the
  Internet
• Others serve the users faster and cheaper than we
  do
• End users themselves place orders with publishers
  and distributors

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NOSP coverage

• Are all relevant types of serials registered i
  NOSP?

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NOSP tasks

• NOSP promotes Nordic collections
• NOSP exposes Nordic publications
• NOSP serves Nordic users

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Nordic libraries

• Must cut down on delivery time
• Must cut down on delivery costs
• One-stop-shop not a chain of stops
• Cooperation

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Nordic challenge

• Better access to Nordic articles
• Access to Nordic fulltext

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NOSP report

• Report to be sent Nordinfo by 25th October
• NORON discussions in November
• The report will be published and decisions
  announced