2011 EBSCO OPEN DAY EVENT24 May 2011Eastin Hotel

Setting our sights on a Malaysian e-journal consortium

Nor Edzan Che NasirLibrary

University of Malaya

Consortium – association or partnership

E-journal consortium – collaborative acquisition of access rights to electronic databases and journals (Varaprasad & Madhusudhan, 2010)

Primary aim – achieve what members of the group cannot achieve individually

TYPESOpen consortiumClosed consortiumCentrally-fundedShared budgetPublishers’ initiativeNational consortiumInternational consortium

MALAYSIA

The National Library & academic libraries – have been sharing resources since the 1970s or even earlier

PERPUN Sharing of ideas, experiencesSharing of collection – ILL, DDS & library useSIGs

Now – commercial database consortium

MOLECObvious differences in pricing of commercial databases

offered by publishers/vendors to academic libraries

JKK PDK set up in 2000 under PERDANA (Sistem Perpustakaan Digital Negara)

Main function – coordinates pricing of commercial databases

Ist meeting – 21 March 2000 in Perpustakaan Tun Seri Lanang, UKM

12 public & private university libraries

Changed name to JKPDK

Changed name again in 2010 – Malaysian OnLine Resources Consortium

National Library, 20 public university libraries, 7 GLC university libraries, 7 government/non government agency libraries = 35

Current Chair & Secretariat = UM Library

Objective of the consortium Establishes the concept of resource sharing of commercial databases Subscribes to commercial databases as a consortium

Scope – all commercial databases

What do we do? Identify, study, evaluate & manage negotiations for subscription to

commercial databases

Identify ways & means of addressing the various Government policies & regulations with regards to subscription of non-Malaysian commercial databases

Every member has to provide a listing of all their subscribed databases & all freely available databases & e-journals on their website

Maintains MyULIS (Malaysian Union List of Serials) Master List of Commercial Databases Master List of Backfiles/Archives

Develop the GARIS PANDUAN PEROLEHAN SUMBER MAKLUMAT ELEKTRONIK

Source for funds from MOHE

Conduct workshops/courses/seminars – sharing of experiences & ideas

Invite publishers/vendors for product presentation

Make presentations to interested parties

Meet once every two months

Why are we doing all this?Shrinking/static budget

Increasing number of journals

Increasing cost of journals

Increasing demand from users for more resources

Research-based universities – access to more sources to support their research activities

Requirements set by publishers/vendors

EXAMPLES Africa ( all forms of consortium)

SABINET (South African Bibliographic & Information Network – 1983) CALICO (CAPE Libraries Cooperatives - 1992) FRELICO (Free State Libraries & Information Consortium – 1996) GAELIC (Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium – 1996) esAL (Eastern Seaboard Association Libraries – 1997) SEALS (South East Academic Library System – 1996) SANLic 9South African National Library & Information Consortium – 1999) CATNIP (cataloging Network ) COMLIB (Communication & Library Project – 2000)

China CALIS (China Academic Libraries & Information System – 1998)

India (e-journal consortium) UGC/INFLIBNET (University Grants Commission/Information & Library Network) INDEST ( Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology) FORSA (Forum for resource Sharing in Astronomy & Astrophysics) CSIR Consortium (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research)

Japan JANUL (Japan Association of National University Libraries)

Malawi MALICO (Malawi Library & Information Consortium)

South Korea KESLI (Korean Electronic Site Licence Initiative – 1999 – 355 or 487 libraries) KERIS ( Korea Education & Research Information Service – 1999)

ReferencesInternational Coalition of Library Consortia. 2010. ICOLC.

http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/National Knowledge Resource Consortium. 2011. NKRC.

http://124.124.221.7/Ossai, N.B. 2010. Consortia building among libraries in Africa, and

the Nigerian experience. Collaborative Librarianship, 2(2) : 74-85.Ramos, M.M. and Kamsiah Mohd. Ali. 2005. Maximising library

resources through consortial subscriptions: the case of the CGIARLIS Consortium. IAALD Quarterly Bulletin, L(1/2) : 5-9.

Sreekumar, M.G. and T. Sunitha. Library capacity building through e-journal consortia: the Indian senario. http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/249/1/09-mgs-sunitha-paper+new.pdf

Varaprasad, S.J.D. and S. Madhusudhan. 2010. E-journal consortium: is it a success story always? Journal of Library & Information Technology, 30(2), 92-96.

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