Serials Management and EDI: The Possible, The Cost, The Future

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Serials Management and EDI The Possible, The
Cost, The Future
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The Electronic Loop
Customer/ ILS
Publisher
Subscription Agent
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Interfaces

• Proprietary - System Vendor
• Proprietary - Customer
• Standards
• Trading partner agreements govern content and
  method

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EDI Alphabet Soup

• SISAC
• CSISAC
• ICEDIS
• ASC X12
• UN/EDIFACT
• EDItEUR

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Standards the Business Cycle

• Voluntary compliance
• Orders to publishers
• Dispatch data from publishers
• Transactions integrated with library system
  processing
• Movement toward UN/EDIFACT

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SICI

• Serial Item and Contribution Identifier
• Unique to serial issue and article
• ISSN, chronology, enumeration, article-specific
  data
• Multiple uses
• Important component of EDI transactions
• Z39.56 1996 (Version 2)

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SISAC Bar Code Symbol

• Machine scannable representation of the SICI
• Unique identifier of a serial issue
• ISSN, chronology, enumeration
• ILS serials checkin record or issue level?
• Publisher and ILS compliance

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DOI

• Digital Object Identifier
• The smaller the piece, the longer the identifier
• What does this mean to me?
• What does this mean to a supplier?
• http//www.doi.org

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An Agents Basic Services

• Order serials of all types and media
• Invoice and payment
• Order management

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Services EDI Cannot Provide

• Online support
• Online services
• Management reports
• Web database, orders, claims
• Electronic journal access and management

• Missing copy bank
• Consolidation
• Worldwide contacts
• Transition services field support
• Knowledgeable customer service

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Functional Interfaces

• Electronic Invoices
• Electronic Orders
• Electronic Claims

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Why Interfaces?

• Let people do what they do well
• Let machines do what they do well
• Records update electronically
• Economies of scale lead to cost control
• Partnerships produce results
• Improved serials communication

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Adapt and Change