INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION IN
E-JOURNAL
MANAGEMENT
Evelinde Hutzler, University Library Regensburg
Don Panzera, Library of Congress
Presentation Overview
• The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) -Electronic Journals Library -- and the Library of
Congress
• Cooperative e-journal management in the EZB
• EZB user functionality
• EZB and vascoda
• Joint project
• Q&A/Discussion
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EZB is a Cooperative Library
Service….
• Developed and managed by the University
Library Regensburg, Germany
• Supported by German Research Foundation
and Federal Ministry of Education and
Research.
• 291 members: 290 European, 1 North
American
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…Building Access through
Collaboration
• Constant enlargement of the title content
• Cooperative collection of the e-journals
• Tools for license and access information
administration for each of 291 EZB member
institutions
• Integration of local requirements
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Collaboratively Maintaining the
Database
• Collaborative maintenance of the
bibliographic metadata
• Effective updating of the URLs
• Saving of labor for each EZB member
• High database quality and user satisfaction
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LC’s “Sutton Strategy”
• EZB Database = Research value
– 20,600 e-journals
• 8,000 full text at no direct cost
• 2,300 born digital
– supplementary 21,000 titles in aggregator
databases
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Exchanging Digital for Print?
• LC exchange receipts in 2004 = 32% of the
1994 total
• LC/ELAD’s serial exchange receipts
dropped by 8000 titles – 50%+ -- between
1998 and 2004
• How many have gone digital?
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Scholarly Communication & the
EZB free e-journal database
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Academic publishers: 35%
Non-profit organizations: 30%
Governments: 9%
Commercial publishers: 12%
Corporations: 6%
“Other”: 8%
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Non-Commercial Content.…
• EZB freely accessible e-journals
– Place of publication:
• Germany: 24%
• U.S.: 23%
• 19 other countries: 53%
– Language
• English: 46%
• German: 30%
• Spanish: 15%
• 6 Other: 9%
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EZB Membership Has Its
Rewards
• Free access to the EZB database
• Persistent URLs
• License and holdings data from the other
290 members
• E-journal metadata: MARC 21 bibliographic
records from the Deutsche Bibliothek
• Contact with other German national and
research libraries
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EZB Costs
• Direct cost of membership: $0.
• Database maintenance: .25 FTE
• Other membership responsibilities: .25 FTE
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E-Journal Management
• EZB collaborative e-journal management
• EZB user functionality
• EZB as part of digital libraries
– Connection between EZB and library catalogs
– EZB Linking in vascoda
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EZB user functions
EZB offers:
• Stuctured access to scholarly e-journals
• Freely available e-journals together with
licensed ones under a standardized user
interface
• Browsing in subject and alphabetical lists
• Search functions
• User information about access
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Browsing by subject lists
41 subjects
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Biological e-journals
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Direct link to the homepage
Direct link to the
journal homepage
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Access Information
access
information
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License / Access Information
Access information in the EZB is shown
by a traffic light symbol
Green: free e-journal
the full texts are freely available
Yellow: licensed for the library
full texts can be accessed by the institutional users
Red: without a subscription
full text access is not possible
Yellow/Red: The institution has no continuous
subscription on this journal. Therefore, only some of the
published volumes are accessible as full texts.
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Readme links
Readme links
provide detailed
access and user
information
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EZB search functions
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EZB web pages for each member
EZB / University Library Regensburg
EZB / Library of Congress
Local access information
for each EZB member
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EZB as part of digital libraries
• Link between the EZB and library catalogs
• Connection between EZB and digital
libraries, e.g. vascoda
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Linking to library catalogs
From the
catalog entry
via persistent
URL to the
EZB
to the journal
homepage
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EZB and vascoda
• vascoda: interdisciplinary internet portal for
scholarly information in Germany
(www.vascoda.de)
• vascoda is the nucleus of the German Digital
Library
• Partners of vascoda
– More than 40 rsearch libraries, technical information
centers and other information institutions
– EZB is a partner of vascoda
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Connecting vascoda and EZB
From the search in vascoda
digital libraries
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EZB linking in vascoda
to the result list in vascoda
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EZB linking in vascoda
From the result list in vascoda
via EZB Link
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EZB Linking
to the EZB
License
information
for the
article
Link to the article full text
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EZB Article Linking
From EZB to the
article full text
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EZB Linking via Open URL
• EZB connects bibliographic references to full texts
in e-journals
• EZB informs users about the accessibility of the
article
• EZB links to the full texts in e-journals on various
levels
– Deep article linking for 8.000 e-journals
– Linking to issues, volumes or to the journal home page
– Linking to free and licensed full texts
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International Electronic
Exchange (IEX) Pilot Project
• Purpose: Share the burden of obtaining,
maintaining, preserving, and providing
ongoing access to information products of
research value
– Reduce processing costs
– Provide more timely access
• Scope: Government e-journals
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IEX Participants
• Library of
Congress
• U.S. Government
Printing Office
• (NLM)
• (NAL)
• Die Deutsche
Bibliothek
• State Library in Berlin
• EZB
• (Bavarian State
Library)
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IEX Pilot Project
• Objectives:
– Exchange access to content
– Exchange intellectual property rights to enable
downloading and maintenance
– Exchange pertinent metadata
– Develop (more) interoperable IT systems
– Cooperative reference service
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Why Germany?
• EZB partnership
• Interest on the part of the national libraries
• Develop a business model that will work for
other national libraries
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Thank you for your attention !
• Contact / LC
– Don Panzera
Library of Congress
e-mail: dpan@lov.gov
• Contact / EZB
– Dr. Evelinde Hutzler
University Library Regensburg
e-mail: evelinde.hutzler@bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de
URL of EZB: www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/
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