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

[Harper, Cynthia]

You probably know about this article from UNC’s Kristina Spurgin https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9684.  I realize it worked with ebooks, but possibly she has some article sites there too?

Cindy

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Melissa Belvadi
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

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
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:12 AM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu<mailto: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.

Alexander Dodd
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From: Melissa Belvadi [mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca>]
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

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?


Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca>  902-566-0581
my public calendar<http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week>
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:13 PM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu<mailto:adodd1 at loyola.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

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.

Thanks,


Alexander Dodd
Discovery & Electronic Resources Librarian





Loyola Notre Dame Library

200 Winston Avenue

Baltimore, MD 21212

t: (410) 617-6861

e: adodd1 at loyola.edu<mailto:adodd1 at loyola.edu>



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