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IReL in a nutshell Consortial purchasing by Irish libraries Birth of IReL IReL now and in the future Implications
IReL in a Nutshell
A consortial purchasing scheme Seven universities Access to scientific material Supported by SFI and HEA Supplementary funding 3,000+ e-titles Centrally negotiated Centrally administered Likely to expand
Consortial Purchasing by Libraries CHEST JISC JSTOR Irish University periodicals contract Web of Science..LION..Science
Direct..Patrologia Latina..ECCO.. IReL
Consortial Purchasing by IReL Libraries Value for money Subscription price inflation International exemplars (FINeLIB, Canada,
JISC) Technological progress Emerging role of scientific research User demand and… User pressure on university/research
funding agencies
Birth of IReL
May 2004 Science Foundation Ireland and Higher
Education Authority decisions €20M over 5 years Universities, initially Phase I live by December 2004 At least 2,500 titles
Birth of IReL
Publisher package model CHIU Librarians’ Group overseeing Negotiating agent – Content Complete Ltd. IRIS Ltd. as the managing agent Supplementary funding model means
work! IReL Model Licence 2-3 year licences
What’s Available Now?
ACM PortalThe ACM DL (Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library) is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Click here to view full list of titles.
American Chemical Society Publications: ACS Package The ACS was founded in 1876 and is the world's largest scientific society. Full text to over 30 peer reviewed ACS titles. Click here to view full list of titles.
Annual ReviewsAnnual Reviews offer comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Full text.
Blackwell Synergy STM CollectionFull text to Blackwell's Science, Technology and Medicine Journals. Includes Economics.
Emerald Fulltext42,000 searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include Management, HRM, Marketing, Librarianship, Mechanical engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Food Science.Online archive back to 1989. Click here to view full list of titles.
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing Full text access to all of the IOP's journals, from 1994.
Kluwer Journals OnlineAccess to a vast and expanding set of full text journals from Kluwer, in most disciplines.
Nature Portal to full text of Nature magazine along with 17 other Nature titles. Click here to view full list of titles.
Science Direct Full text of over 1500 journals published by Elsevier Science in all disciplines, now includes Academic Press and Harcourt Health Sciences titles.
Science OnlinePortal to Science Magazine full text and other services such as Science Now, daily news service and Science Careers.
Scientific AmericanFull text of every issue from 1993 to present.
SpringerLink Full text to over 500 journals from Springer-Verlag in the Sciences, Technology and Medicine
Web of Knowledge The Web of Knowledge is a portal to the citation database Web of Science, which contains Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. WOK also includes 1. Essential Science Indicators, an analytical tool, giving essential science performance statistics, 2. Journal Citation Reports journal performance metrics, including Impact Factor and 3. ISI Proceedings.
Wiley Interscience Wiley Interscience provides full text online access to over 540 journals from John Wiley & Sons. Click here to view full list of titles.
What’s Available Now?
Access by university community via university library web-sites
Mediated by the relevant subject specialist librarians
Also: 100 directly available single titles selected by the research community
What’s to Come?
More titles, including… Biomed Central CAB Direct Crossfire Beilstein Cell Press Embase Emerald Biosis Previews Ovid Biomedical OUP RSC SciFinder Scholar Taylor & Francis Wiley
What’s to Come? CHIU E-Resources Steering Group
Monitoring Service evaluation
Increase in usage Greater demand for information fluency More “undergraduate research” More funding….??
The Future
Humanities & Social Sciences proposal Fully HEA-funded Balanced funding for e-journals ~€5M recurrent, ~€5M one off Live by end of 2005? Benefits teaching and learning, as well as
research
IReL: the +ve Implications
Powerful resource for research, teaching, learning
Attract high-flyers Promotes local academic and national
socio-economic objectives Establishes top-slicing model Hugely popular affirms role of the library and restores our
image Reduces physical processing
IReL: the ‘not so +ve’ Implications
Relies on external funding Ties up local funds Poor meta-searchability Obscures the role of the library Ignores print and service needs What happens after 2008/9? Reinforces the commercial publishing
model…..
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