UMKC University Libraries

Serial Acquisitions Unit

Resources

 

Below are resources on serials librarianship and serials in libraries.

 

 

Archival Storage

• RLG/OCLC. 2001. Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository. (http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf).
• LOCKSS (http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home).
• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape. 2006. Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub138abst.html.

 

Binding

• ANSI/NISO?LBI Z39.78-2000 Library Binding Standard. (http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-78.pdf).

 

Collection Development

• Big Deals:
  • Frazier, Ken. "The librarian's dilemma: contemplating the costs of the 'Big Deal,'" D-Lib Magazine, 7(3), March 2001. (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/frazier/03frazier.html).
• General resources:
  • Johnson, Peggy. 2004. Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Chicago: American Library Association.
  • Nisonger, Thomas E. 2003. Evaluation of Library Collections, Access and Electronic Resources: A Literature Guide and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
  • Perkins, David L., ed. 1979. Guidelines for the Formulation of Collection Development Policies. Chicago, IL: Collection Development Committee, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. 
• Journal cancellation projects:
  • Metz, Paul. 1992. "Thirteen Steps to Avoiding Bad Luck in a Serials Cancellation Project." Journal of Academic Librarianship 18(2): 76-82.
• Journal rankings:
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) - Project to classify European humanities journals into three different categories (A-C).
• Reviews:
  • Charleston Advisor (http://charlestonco.com/) offers electronic resource product reviews
  • ERIL-L email dated 9/26/2006 - summary of resources providing database reviews.

 

ERM (Electronic Resource Management)

• Doering, William, and Galadriel Chilton. 2008. "A Locally Created ERM: How and Why We Did It. (Cover story)." Computers in Libraries 28, no. 8: 6-48. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed October 7, 2008). The article describes the utilization of Microsoft Access to develop a basic, effective and inexpensive electronic resource management (ERM) for the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse's Murphy Library.

 

General

• ALCTS Serials Section (http://www.ala.org/ALCTSTemplate.cfm?Section=alctssectionscont&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=16&ContentID=11133).
• Black, Steve. 2006. Serials in Libraries: Issues and Practices. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Chen, Chiou-sen Dora. 1995. Serials Management: A Practical Guide. Chicago: American Library Association.
• Nisonger, Thomas E. 1998. Management of Serials in Libraries. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
• Tuttle, Marcia et al. 1996. Managing Serials. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

 

Licensing

• GWLA Licensing guidelines and model license.
• Model NESL!@ License for Journals (UK): http://www.nesli2.ac.uk/model.htm.

 

Open Access

• Web sites:
  • Registry of Open Access Repositories: http://roar.eprints.org/.
• Journal articles:
  • Morrison, Heather and Andrew Waller. 2008. "Open Access and Evolving Scholarly Communication: An overview of library advocacy and commitment, institutional repositories, and publishing in Canada." College and Research Libraries News, September 2008: 486-490.
    • Canadian Institutes of Health Research have a mandate with a 6 month embargo.
    • Synergies program to move social sciences and humanities journals into the online environment using the Open Journals Systems (OJS) open source software.
    • Movement toward libraries paying author submission fees to submit articles into OA journals.

Publisher Information

• Publisher Perpetual Access Information list (this list was compiled by Laura Edwards of Eastern Kentucky University Libraries) and offered to all after some postings on the ERIL listserv in September 2007.

 

Serials Crisis & Pricing

• Crawford, Walt and Michael Gorman. 1995. Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.
• Library Journal annual price survey published in April issue.
• Library Resources and Technical Services annual U.S. Periodicals Price Index. (http://www.ala.org/ALCTSTemplate.cfm?Section=alctssectionscont&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=16&ContentID=7992).
• Tuttle, Marcia. 1989-2001. Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/prices/).

 

 

SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) - new NISO framework intended to simplify process of license negotiation.

• NISO site - http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru
• PDF document - http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-7-2008.pdf
• SERU registry of libraries and publishers - http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru/registry/

 

Standards

• ISSN:
  • www.issn.org
  • National Serials Data Program. (http://www.loc.gov/issn/)
  OpenURL:
  • Van de Sompel, Herbert & Oren Beit-Arie, "Open linking in the Scholarly Information Environment using the OpenURL framework," D-Lib Magazine, 7(3), March 2001. (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html)

 

TOC Services

• ticTOCS - centralized hub for e-TOCs from publishers. (http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/).

 

Usage Statistics

• Fowler, David C. 2007. Usage Statistics of E-Serials. Haworth Press.

 

Users

• Bell, Suzanne. 2007. "Tools Every Searcher Should Know and Use." Online, Sept/Oct 2007, 22-27. Summary of the "Searcher's Toolkit."
• Tenopir, Carol. 2003. Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies.

 

Vendors

• Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries. (http://www.subscription-agents.org/).
• Faxon bankruptcy articles: Serials Review, 29(4), Winter 2003, 271-275.
• Guide to Performance Evaluation of Serials Vendors. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.

 

Web 2.0

• Notes, Greg R. 2007. "The Incredible, Embeddable Web." Online, Sept/Oct 2007, 43-46. Good article on embedding files (powerpoints, spreadsheets, etc.) into blogs and websites.
• Stephens, Michael. "Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software." Library Technology Reports, 42(4), 2006.

 

Workflow

• Anderson, Rick and Steven D. Zink. 2003. "Implementing the unthinkable: The demise of periodical check-in at the University of Nevada." Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services, 27(1), 61-71.
• Duranceau, Ellen and Cinder Hepfer. "Staffing for electronic resource management: The results of a survey." Serials Librarian, 28(4), 2002, 316-320.
• Duranceau, Ellen. "Beyond print: Revisioning serials acquisitions for the digital age." Serials Librarian, 33(1/2), 1998, 83-106.
• Gellatly, Peter, ed. 1990. The Good Serials Department. New York: Haworth Press.
• Prevailing and Best Practices in Electronic and Print Serials Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2006.
• Schonfeld, Roger C. et al. June 2004. The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats. (http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub127/pub127.pdf).

 

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