This presentation will cover a major cost-per-use project completed at The University of Alabama Libraries and will discuss the challenges of managing such a large project. Included points are data silos, data integrity, differing spend factors and differing usage metrics.
Many e-resources librarians deal with a chicken-and-egg problem: Libraries need to be able to track important universal information about e-resources while cultivating site-specific metadata that is not common to all libraries. However, CORAL, an open source ERM, provides opportunities for integration with global knowledgebases that can seamlessly leverage universal data.
Right now, I spend most of my work time obsessing about authentication, battling a link resolver, and manipulating CORAL. Please talk to me about these things! (Seriously. I need all the tips I can get.)
ConsortiaManager will share our experiences with connecting research output to the library acquisitions, enabling better decision support and creating better understanding of the true value of purchased content. Further to this, we will show how we evaluate the actual consequenses of moving away from the big deal.
