UKSG Introduction to E-Resources Online Seminar 2024 by Vicky Drew

Pricing

2024-06-12 09:18:36 UTC

This is a big issue for us at the moment and we may be forced to cut our subscriptions.

User Experience

2024-06-12 09:19:26 UTC

A constant concern and very much related to engagement.

Discovery

2024-06-12 09:21:13 UTC

While discovery can be helpful, I have always thought it is important for patrons to know what is there in the background - not everything appears in discovery tools.

Statistics

2024-06-12 09:22:19 UTC

I do not know how to make sense of the figures.

Engagement

2024-06-12 09:23:28 UTC

I suspect this is an issue that is getting bigger and bigger. Improved engagement has to involve academics and this is very difficult.

Authentication

2024-06-12 09:24:51 UTC

Having come from a faculty librarian background, not an IT background, I find the area of authentication very difficult to get my head around.

Library Catalogue

2024-06-18 11:28:13 UTC

With students increasingly using google (with Lean or alike) and reading lists to locate material, will a library catalogue interface even be necessary in future?

Accurate usage statistics

2024-06-18 11:38:34 UTC

How to keep track of the usage of a resource that is supplied through multiple portfolios/databases, that can help inform decisions about renewals or cancellations.

Keeping track of information

2024-06-18 11:44:31 UTC

One of the major challenges I find is being able to keep track of all of the information that's required to manage e-resources, I constantly have hundreds of tabs open on my browser at once and dozens of Excel spreadsheets! we are trying to feed it all into our LMS but it's challenging.

Evaluating usage statistics for a wider range of resources

events108 — 2024-06-18 12:18:25 UTC

Reviewing some of our smaller, less expensive resources as well as our key databases and journal packages

Increase usage for students

events108 — 2024-06-18 12:24:52 UTC

Our university is committed to advancing digital literacy and sustainability by prioritising the use of e-books. We aim to increase student engagement with electronic resources, encouraging the adoption of e-books as the preferred option over print materials whenever possible

Strategic Evaluation of E-Book Models

events108 — 2024-06-18 12:27:35 UTC

We will conduct a comprehensive review of our current e-book models to develop a forward-thinking strategy to meet our objectives and the changing needs needs of our university community.

Engagement

2024-06-18 12:29:22 UTC

We're digital first.. We try to promote our resources using social media and news articles on our website, but it's trying to find ways of making it more engaging and interesting for the students

Usage and analytics

2024-06-18 12:30:32 UTC

It's keeping track of what statistics are from where and which ones are COUNTER and which one aren't

Pricing

2024-06-18 12:32:03 UTC

It's all about justifying what's being spent on which resources and why.. a lot of work is being focused on what resources do we actually need and why

Discovery

2024-06-18 12:33:04 UTC

We're looking into how the students are using our discovery tools so that we can streamline the whole process for them

Accessibility & User Experience

2024-06-18 12:35:23 UTC

It's ensuring that everything is as accessible as possible for the students so that they get the most out of the resources.. It's also about ensuring that they have the most positive experience too so that they can focus on their studies more.

Analytics

events108 — 2024-06-18 12:37:55 UTC

It would be useful if more providers would gt on board with making their data available through JUSP

Authentication & Spreadsheets

2024-06-18 12:38:30 UTC

It took me awhile to get my head around authentication and I still get stuck on this sometimes. I also didn't realise how many spreadsheets I'd end up with/using either before I came into this E-Resources role!

Learning more about how users interact

events108 — 2024-06-18 12:40:27 UTC

We are exploring user engagement with e-books and other electronic resources to identify preferred suppliers and formats. Our goal is to understand these preferences to fulfil requests in the most efficient and user-friendly manner.

Usage & Stats

2024-06-18 12:59:08 UTC

We find Ebook turnaways a good indication of use, but collecting stats on individual resources like journals and packages is time consuming.

Pricing

2024-06-18 13:01:24 UTC

With regards to E-books, we could like to see 10 user licences introduced, as opposed to the current favored 1 U / 3 User / Unlimited models to help with larger course groups.

Pricing

2024-06-19 09:00:07 UTC

For smaller institutions, it is simply not viable to pay the exorbitant fees for unlimited usage of eBooks and eResources.

User experience

2024-06-19 09:03:17 UTC

Inclusive and user friendly accessibility needs to become a priority for suppliers moving forward. Many students start their university careers finding that accessing library services (especially digitally) is intimidating and often shy away from engaging with all that is available to them.

Discovery & Metadata

2024-06-19 09:07:56 UTC

Good quality metadata needs to become a priority. It helps the librarian and the library users beyond simply locating materials in the catalogue. I know that during my academic career, I would make the decision to abandon resources if they became too difficult to access or I could not easily reference them.

Accessibility & User Experience

2024-06-19 09:36:37 UTC

Making sure our core reading and key collections are available online as much as possible, which has been a focus for many years now. Alongside this, communication to library colleagues and academics about the licences so it's understood what we're offering and where the limitations are.

Accessibility

2024-06-19 09:37:45 UTC

Continued improvements to e-book platform accessibility e.g. built in text-to-speech, multiple choices of background colours and other dyslexia aids. This is the kind of thing we would feed back to our suppliers in review meetings to help them with their planning.

Pricing & Licensing

2024-06-19 09:40:22 UTC

Working with vendors/aggregators and publishers to try and mitigate the impact of steep price rises and poor licences. Right now a lot of books are only being published as 1 or 3 user licences, or only on the etextbook model, and the prices are increasingly unaffordable.

Up-to-date ebook package lists

2024-06-19 10:12:44 UTC

Ebooks are constantly moving between packages, being removed, or updated when a new edition is published. Some publishers are better than others at updating their collection information but overall this proves a challenge to maintaining correct ebook records and knowing what we have / don't have access to.

Open Access Usage

2024-06-19 10:14:50 UTC

We're getting asked by Execs for more information around Open Access usage - As more content becomes OA they're becoming increasingly interested in what value we can gain from measuring OA usage, and how this informs the initiatives/models we fund.

Pricing

2024-06-19 10:38:37 UTC

This should be delivered in a way that makes pricing more fair and uniformed. Allowing access to content to become more accessible. Giving more equality and benefiting institutions with varying budgets.

Discovery

2024-06-19 10:39:04 UTC

Ensure that authentication pathways are delivered in a way that incorporates a secure signing, but also a streamlined and uniformed way of accessing content. This would eliminate stress and confusion for our customers and a knowledge that security of their personal details are a priority.

Library license to e-textbooks

2024-06-19 12:14:17 UTC

We find it difficult to obtain library licences for e-textbooks (on favourable terms)

One-time purchases

2024-06-19 12:17:40 UTC

In the future we would like to have the option to buy e-text books as a one-time purchase (without subscribtion restrictions)

Engagement in eResources

2024-06-19 12:59:46 UTC

With engagement in courses dropping and pleasures on budgets we're looking at how hard our resources are working and liaising with colleagues on how long a resource needs to be active before we see a return on investment.

Licensing

2024-06-19 13:02:22 UTC

With open book exams looking to increase we're interested in ways of managing patron expectation and not rewarding publishers by purchasing additional licences

Databases

2024-06-19 13:03:54 UTC

Always looking at ways to make database resources easier to discover

Open Acess

2024-06-19 13:14:50 UTC

Expecting to see continued growth in Open Educational resources and Open Access books. e.g. impact of UKRI policy

Pricing

2024-06-19 13:38:39 UTC

eTextbooks are becoming more common and are unaffordable. We are having to settle for print copies which makes it harder for students to access the text.

Accessibility

2024-06-19 13:40:57 UTC

eBook and supplier platforms to catch up with accessibility options.

we still get asked why our ebooks are so expensive when members can see the same books cheaply available on kindle. Library models and personal use models are still worlds apart

2024-06-19 15:36:31 UTC

User experience

2024-06-20 08:16:07 UTC

I think a priority would be to develop some kind of universal reader that could work on all platforms (we can dream I suppose!)

E-textbooks models

2024-06-20 08:34:33 UTC

The growth of this market, where year on year we are spending more for less.

Evidence based decision making

2024-06-20 08:36:13 UTC

Using usage stats to more effectively make decisions on renewals, subs and EBA packages etc, takes alot of time and is very manual.