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Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic

Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic. Facilitator: Dana Peterman Librarian for Education, Psychology, and Cognitive Sciences at UC-Irvine December 7, 2011. Logistics. Type any question in Chat whenever you want. If you want to talk via VOIP, indicate by chat, but it can be tricky.

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Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic

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  1. Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic Facilitator: Dana Peterman Librarian for Education, Psychology, and Cognitive Sciences at UC-Irvine December 7, 2011

  2. Logistics • Type any question in Chat whenever you want. • If you want to talk via VOIP, indicate by chat, but it can be tricky. • Cheryl and Alex will try to accommodate what goes wrong, but we will try not to stop the presentation if the problem is only happening to a few of you.

  3. What we’ll cover • Tools to use and their strengths and weaknesses • Things I’ve tried or tried to try • What you have tried

  4. Tools to use – serials holdings in databases • CUFTS (http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/compare) • JISC ADAT (Academic Database Assessment Tool) • Serial Solutions Overlap Analysis Tool (more for weeding) • How many of you have used these? What have you used?

  5. Tools to use – serials – some metrics • EBSS Core Psychology Journals (www.corepsychologyjournals.org/Main.aspx) • Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports/Scopus/SNIP/SJR • Ulrich’s/Magazines for Libraries/LJ, etc. • Look for vendors using COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) compliant statistics, such as Ebsco • Cabell’s directories. • YOUR subject specific favorites? Same old thing?

  6. Tools to use – serialsWhat value derived from usage or citation • Impact factors, usage, cost per use, faculty use or contribution • Devise your own. YOUR Tools? How are you weighting your values?

  7. Tools to use - Monos • WorldCat Analysis tool • Choosing peers – who and why • Pitfalls • ILS and ERMs • Usage reports, license info and more • Print resources • What would you do?

  8. Faculty/Researcher input • Quality and quantity according to audience • Communication cycles • How much you can say • Who else is involved – tell us.

  9. The End Bibliography on ALA Connect Questions? Contact: dpeterma@uci.edu 949.824.0607

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