Electronic Resource Acquisition Pilot Study Final Report
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Date
2007
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Abstract
In light of the increasing numbers of e-resources targeted at academic libraries and the increase in the e-resource budget for 2007, a pilot study was held to investigate the integration of e-resource acquisition into current print acquisition processes. To this end, the Electronic Resource Acquisition Team was established for the period May – December 2007.
The team was trained in the complexities of e-resource acquisition and management, achieving a 12% increase in e-resource acquisition from 2006 (as at September 2007). In addition, several sub-projects were also undertaken by the team throughout the project period: Browse by Subject Project, Info Page Clean Up Project, Ledger Clean Up Project, Updates Page Project and the ERMS Project. As a result of the work completed by the team throughout the ERAT project, documentation and strategies were created and developed to enable the continued effective acquisition and management of e-resources ...
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Electronic resources acquisition, Electronic resources management, Integrating processes