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What Counts? Assessing The Value Of Non-Text Resources, Tammy Sugarman, Stephanie Krueger
What Counts? Assessing The Value Of Non-Text Resources, Tammy Sugarman, Stephanie Krueger
University Library Faculty Presentations
In this era of tightening budgets, librarians are increasingly turning to usage data from licensed resource providers to support difficult collection development decisions. The most recent release of the COUNTER code of practice for usage data reporting and the SUSHI XML protocol further support this decision-making process. Providing "COUNTER compliant" usage reports is an increasingly important feature expected of licensed digital materials by academic libraries. COUNTER reports are designed to primarily measure usage of textual resources such as: journals, e-books and database indexes. However, for multimedia resources that contain exclusively images, time-based media, or audio content, the usage patterns and …
Advice From The Trenches: Post Purchase Evaluation, Annie Smith, Regina Koury, Cheryl Sebold, Jenny Semenza
Advice From The Trenches: Post Purchase Evaluation, Annie Smith, Regina Koury, Cheryl Sebold, Jenny Semenza
Annie Smith
Presented as part of a larger presentation about evaluating and purchasing databases and negotiating database licenses, this section focused on post purchase evaluation of databases. Databases are constantly changing their content and their features and these need to be monitored. In addition, this presentation covers how to collect and analyze usage statistics.