Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The basic issues of institutional repositories were reviewed, including the software available, and the use of the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-PMH)
Subjects listed for discussion were: URL maintenance; registration; adding e-journals to the OPAC; coverage – i.e. years accessed, what is included in an electronic subscription; licence management and standard licences; access denials; ‘start any time’ subs with different start dates for electronic and print; price file maintenance; information/reporting; hidden costs e.g. VAT, debundling, and change management
Problems associated with access denials are viewed by librarians as being very urgent
Summary
Reports on briefing sessions and workshops held at the 26th UKSG Annual Conference. Local digital article archives (or creating institutional e-print repositories): practical tips. This workshop was held over two different days and looked at the practical issues raised in creating institutional repositories of e-prints. The benefits of repositories were discussed, both for academics, in terms of dismantling access and impact barriers to their work, and benefits on an institutional level, affecting the way that the research output of a university can be registered, measured and used. It was recognised by all that it is possible for e-print repositories to work as a complement to existing structures and that this new hybrid approach to scholarly communication structures was the most likely and best solution for the future These sessions covered some basic usability principles and guided attendees to other resources to discover some ‘rules’ regarding usability. The challenge is to find common areas where automation, exchange of experience or third party solutions can bring considerable savings to libraries, and publishers and agents
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