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Evaluating Collections – EBSS Current Topic

Join Dana Peterman, a librarian at UC Irvine, as she presents on effective tools and strategies for evaluating collections in Education, Psychology, and Cognitive Sciences. This session will cover various metrics and tools such as CUFTS, JISC ADAT, and the Web of Science to analyze serial holdings, usage, and impact factors. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences and peculiarities regarding these methods, while also discussing the importance of faculty input and communication cycles in optimizing library resources.

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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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