[Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

[Melissa Belvadi]

I am just this week wrapping up a CS student project (for which I'm the
"client") that involves screenscraping publisher websites to determine if
we in fact have access to the journal volumes that our knowledgebase says
we have. I don't know if you intended your technical review of access to
include that level of what I call "reality checking".

But if anyone else out there reading this has done that kind of
screenscraping coding, I'd be interesting in sharing the brittle details
publisher by publisher of what you look at on the publisher website to
determine access. For instance, we've found that some publishers don't
distinguish "you have access because we've made it free to everyone" (in a
non-OA sense, like Nature, which could be revoked at any time) versus "you
have access because you paid for it" in any way that we can tell via
screenscraping.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca  902-566-0581
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:12 AM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu> wrote:

> We’re doing mainly a technical review of access, with a little bit of
> research into the items as well, not in a cost/ usage data sense but in a
> “do we even know what this database is and why we have it” sense.
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> *Alexander Dodd*
> Discovery & Electronic Resources Librarian
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> *Loyola Notre Dame Library*
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> t: (410) 617-6861
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> e: adodd1 at loyola.edu
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> *From:* Melissa Belvadi [mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2019 8:38 AM
> *To:* Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu>
> *Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?
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> By "review of ... holdings" do you mean a technical review of access, e.g.
> making sure you have access to everything listed in your holdings? Or do
> you mean review in the acquisitions/collection development sense, e.g.
> looking at usage data and cost per use and such?
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> Melissa Belvadi
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> Collections Librarian
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> University of Prince Edward Island
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> mbelvadi at upei.ca  902-566-0581
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> my public calendar
> <http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week>
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> Make an appointment <https://mbelvadi.youcanbook.me/> via YouCanBookMe
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:13 PM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I’m about to start a pretty in-depth review of our library’s e-resources
> knowledgebase holdings, and I’m curious if anyone has any research/ case
> studies they’ve seen that have looked helpful in going through such a deep
> project, or any personal tips that they wish they had known before diving
> into a similar project? I’m a little new to the e-resources field so I’m
> always looking for great research to jump off of.
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> Thanks,
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> *Alexander Dodd*
> Discovery & Electronic Resources Librarian
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> *Loyola Notre Dame Library*
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> 200 Winston Avenue
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> Baltimore, MD 21212
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> t: (410) 617-6861
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> e: adodd1 at loyola.edu
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