5th SELL Meetting Lisboa, 17.06.05. Activities report 2004 1.Government agreement to improve libraries 2.ILS change 3.ICOLC 4.Union catalogue 5.Digital.

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1 5th SELL Meetting Lisboa, 17.06.05

2 Activities report 2004 1.Government agreement to improve libraries 2.ILS change 3.ICOLC 4.Union catalogue 5.Digital Library of Catalonia 6.e-repositories

3 Government agreement TO improve libraries Government agreement on 20.07.04 Proposes measures to promote the cooperation and to create collective tools Creates a monitoring commission formed by the Departments of -Culture -Education -Universities, Research and Information Society

4 Measures of the Government Agreement To promote cooperation: -Libraries gathered in networks -Coordinated selection of automated systems -Cooperative licensing of e-information To strengthen and/or to create collective tools: -Union catalogue of Catalonia -Library services on a national basis -Loan -Storage of low use books

5 Joint ILS tender Participating libraries -Universities -National Library -Public libraries -Open to other libraries Benefits: -To create a users’ community in Catalonia -To ease the creation of common library services -Search for economy of scale

6 ICOLC Fall'04 Barcelona ICOLC meeting organized by CBUC 28-30 October 2004 132 participants (33 countries of the 5 continents) 27 papers, 30 speakers http://www.cbuc.es/icolc04bcn/

7 ICOLC Barcelona: participants

8 ICOLC Barcelona: evaluation Opinion of the participants about the congress organization: 50% Very satisfied 50% Satisfied Opinion about the papers exposed: 52% Very satisfied 43% Satisfied 5% Little satisfied Some comments: “ICOLC meeting is very important for consortia staff. It is very concentrated information, the occasion to share information and experiences. So, please, go on with the actual formula. And again thanks to the organizers.” “Thank you very much for a very well organised and interesting conference!”

9 CCUC: data at 31.12.04 2.650.116 records correspondent to 5.300.000 items 54 institutions 150 libraries 350 cataloguers

10 CCUC: E-resources cataloguing 15.344 full-text e-resources: -9.244 e-journals (6.903 licensed by the consortium) -3.658 e-books (1.860 licensed by the consortium) -2.003 e-theses -364 e-subject guides (created by the universities of the consortium) -75 online databases (34 licensed by the consortium)

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12 BDC Contributions

13 BDC: New licenses in 2004 AxA (All for All) e-journals: -JSTOR (481 titles) -Springer (500 titles) Databases: -PsycInfo (psychology) -ProQuest Medical Library (health sciences) e-books: -Oxford Reference Online (100 reference books)

14 BDC: SxS licensing Some for some: -Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1.800 e-books, 7 institutions) -Annual Reviews (31 items, 7 institutions) -ACM (230 e-journals and working papers, 6 institutions)

15 BDC: Use of licensed resources Study in collaboration with the School of Librarianship (Universitat de Barcelona): The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003). Published in: D-Lib Magazine, June 2004, vol. 10, no. 6. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/anglada/06anglada.html (Spanish and Catalan versions available at: http://www.cbuc.es/5digital/55docs.htm)

16 Main conclusions of the study: Important consortium profit: 32,22% of downloaded articles come from e-journals not previously subscribed at any CBUC library Use dispersion: 35% of journals answer the 80% of the information needs In general, the conclusions are very near to other international studies in this area

17 e-repositories Theses and dissertations Table of contents database Catalan e-journals Working papers & grey literature

18 Theses repository: TDR Over 2.500 e-thesis Full-text open access 13 universities participating (9 CBUC + 4 not CBUC) Same interface and working methods for all = visibility and union progress Members of NDLTD (we adapted the software, that is free) Indexed in Google / OAI 99.000 monthly average questions in 2004 www.tdr.cesca.es

19 Theses repository: TDR

20 E-TOC database E-TOC database of the journals subscribed at CBUC libraries (and they’re at CCUC) Over 6 millions of articles, 12.000 journals Open access 14% of the table of contents are introduced by the CBUC libraries (the others come from a subscription agent and UCM, ULR) Links to the CBUC record and to the full-text (if the journal has a consortium license) http://sumaris.cbuc.es/

21 E-TOC database

22 Catalan scholarly journals portal: RACO Open access portal to spread and improve the visibility of the catalan scholarly journals (about 300) Now 40 full-text journals Full-text open access Project supported economically by the Catalan government Working methods similar to TDR http://sumaris.cbuc.es/raco

23 Catalan scholarly journals portal : RACO

24 Research papers repository: RecerCat Portal to improve visibility for research papers created at the Catalan universities (working papers, preprints, reports, etc.) Now the database is a prototype (26 documents) Full-text open access Free software: DSpace Working methods similar to TDR and RACO http://dspace.cesca.es:8088/wp/index.jsp

25 Research papers repository : RecerCat