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Kinetica Advisory Mechanisms

Kinetica Expert Advisory Group on Access to Electronic Resources

Survey to identify major electronic collections in Australian libraries

Response to Electronic Collections Survey Report

Survey to identify major electronic collections in Australian Libraries - Final report

Kinetica Expert Advisory Group on Access to Electronic Resources

The final report on the Survey to identify major electronic collections in Australian libraries provides a basis on which to explore how Kinetica’s services can be utilised to improve access to, and management of, electronic collections in Australian libraries.


Contents

INTRODUCTION PRIORITIES
SUMMARY OF RESPONSES STANDARDS
ABOUT THE SURVEY MAINTENANCE
DETAIL OF RESPONSES URLs
IDENTIFICATION CONCLUSION
RESOURCE DISCOVERY
 
Appendix 1: List of all datasets identified in the survey
Appendix 2: Electronic collection rankings
Appendix 3: Survey to identify major electronic collections in Australian libraries

INTRODUCTION

Electronic resource discovery and access are providing a significant challenge for libraries. In order to assist librarians to meet this challenge, the National Library of Australia convened an Expert Advisory Group (EAG) to work on issues relating to Access to Electronic Resources, and in particular, how to use Kinetica’s resource sharing services to improve access to electronic collections in Australian Libraries.

One of the terms of reference for the Expert Advisory Group on Access to Electronic Resources is to identify major electronic collections acquired by Australian libraries. In September 2000 the EAG issued it’s ‘Survey to identify major electronic collections in Australian libraries’ and invited all Australian libraries to participate in the survey in order to identifying key datasets that would in turn assist the National Library in determining priorities for:

  • Improving the availability of cataloguing data for these collections
  • Improving the availability of locations information
  • Reducing maintenance costs in local systems and the NBD

In addition to identifying the collections held in Australian libraries, the survey sought information on how libraries managed access to electronic collections, what key standards issues and maintenance problems libraries faced, and whether their collections are generally available for interlibrary lending.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSES

The 35 libraries that responded to the survey provided the following information on their management of electronic collections:

  • many collections were identified
  • 44% of respondents do not provide document supply from any electronic collection
  • 37% provide document supply contingent on the specific licence agreements for each collection
  • 80% provide access via library web pages
  • 70% provide access via web pages and their library catalogue
  • 10% provide access only through the catalogue
  • 85% record the holdings for different formats on a single catalogue record
  • 15% record holdings for different formats on separate records
  • 50% report holdings to the NBD

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ABOUT THE SURVEY

The survey was delivered online, with libraries asked to complete the instrument between 19 September and 30 November 2000. The deadline was extended into the 1st quarter of 2001 to increase the response rate. Participants were invited by email (via Kinetica-l) and by telephone to complete the survey. While we anticipate the invitation to complete the survey reached the majority of Kinetica libraries, the response rate comprises approximately:

  • 90% of National and state libraries
  • 60% of university libraries
  • small number of public libraries
  • no responses from other library sectors

All major stakeholders are well represented in the sample even though the actual number of responses was quite low.

The level of response to the survey from both the academic and state/national library sectors was good; accounting for 32 of the 35 completed and returned surveys. Over 60% of Australian academic libraries and 90% of all state and national libraries responded to the survey. There were three responses from public libraries and no responses from the special library sector.

The level of detail in the responses varied with generally comprehensive information provided for electronic datasets but less detail when describing how they organise and enable access to these datasets.

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DETAIL OF RESPONSES

IDENTIFICATION

The first section of the survey sought to identify electronic collections held by libraries. Libraries were asked to list their resources in two separate and broadly defined categories:

  • Publisher databases - offering access to individual title content for single or multiple publishers’ output through a common interface. Examples include Blackwell Science, Link
  • Index databases with full text - offering subject access to periodical’s content via a third party vendor, were generally not amenable to browsing the contents of journal titles, and had predetermined content from multiple publishers. Examples include ABI Inform, Australian Public Affairs Full Text.

It was acknowledged that these definitions were descriptive rather than prescriptive as some resources might not fit neatly into either category and others could belong to either category. With electronic resources boundaries are often blurred and the category definitions have changed since the survey’s inception and will undoubtedly change again.

Popular Databases

373 electronic collections were identified with just over 138 index databases and 235 publisher databases listed. The following tables list the ten most commonly held publisher and index databases. For a comprehensive listing of all the databases please see Appendix 1.

Publisher Databases No. of Libraries with access to database

AUSSTATS

26

Blackwell Science

23

Wiley Interscience

20

MCB University Press Emerald

18

Oxford University press

17

Institute of Physics

16

ACM Digital Library

16

Project Muse

15

Link (or Springer Link, Springer Verlag KG)

15

Elsevier ScienceDirect

15

 

Index Databases with Full Text No. of Libraries with access to database

Expanded Academic ASAP International

19

Proquest 5000

18

ABI Inform Global

16

Health Reference Centre

14

Electric Library Australasia

14

Computer Database

14

Lexis-Nexis

14

LegalTrac

13

Australian Public Affairs FullText

12

World Magazine Bank

10

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Other Information

Method of purchase

The survey solicited information on the methods of purchase employed by libraries such as whether the purchase was made directly by the library, or by some other arrangements such as a consortium bid.

Method of purchase No. of libraries

Library initiated

34

CAUL Consortium

21

Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee

18

GO-5 (Group of 5 Academic Libraries)

3

The most prevalent method of purchase was ‘library initiated’. Libraries also used consortium purchasing. The specific popularity of the Council of Australian University Librarians consortium and the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee reflects the constituency of the main survey respondents.

Other collaborative access initiatives mentioned in survey responses included:

  • CASL Consortium – Council of Australian Libraries consortium bid for electronic resources
  • State Library subscriptions
  • Local Council Subscriptions
  • Via Gulliver (Libraries Online) – a consortium arrangement amongst public libraries in Victoria with funding to March 2001.
  • QULOC - Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation
  • Northern Territory Government Consortia
  • NSW.net

Complete vs. Partial Subscriptions

Libraries were asked whether they held complete or partial subscriptions to the titles they listed. Though 90% of respondents commented on this item, the varying completeness responses makes it difficult to identify any clear trends. Some general conclusions are possible:

  • 80% of libraries had a mix of both complete and partial subscriptions
  • 20% of libraries had predominantly complete subscriptions to an entire collection or defined subsection of a collection. These were all state or public libraries, with generally limited access to publisher databases.
  • Partial subscriptions tended to reflect a library’s print subscription to specific titles issued by various learned societies, associations or publishers such as the American Chemical Society, Institute of Physics, or the American Medical Association.

Document Delivery

77% of respondents commented on their document delivery policies.

  • 37% of these libraries indicated that supply was contingent on the specific licence agreements
  • 44% issued a blanket statement that they did not offer document supply for any electronic collections. This is reinforced by the high number of libraries not reporting their holdings for electronic collections to the NBD. Some libraries indicated that they would generally supply from the print versions they held in their collections.
  • 18% indicated they would supply from their electronic collections but only to not-for-profit or non-commercial users, and where copyright was cleared.

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RESOURCE DISCOVERY

Survey respondents were asked to describe the ways in which they assist their library users to discover full-text electronic resources. This was an attempt to define the most common local procedures for creating and maintaining data and how much information was being reported to the National Bibliographic Database.

 

Web or catalogue

Library web pages were the predominant mechanism for alerting users to the availability of electronic resources:

  • 80% of respondents listed the datasets on the web
  • 70% created entries in their library catalogues (of which many have a web interface) as well as on the web
  • 10% delivered access solely through the catalogue
  • 14% delivered access solely through electronic resource listing.

60% provided both individual title listings and subject access. Only 2 libraries specifically mentioned using online databases such as IRIS or ERD with the majority stating that descriptions and lists were available on the library’s web pages. A sampling of web sites revealed that more libraries are using electronic resource servers than relying on flat html listings, but the information from the survey and the sampling was not conclusive.

 

Cataloguing levels and methods

No library has found a totally satisfactory local solution to cataloguing electronic collections, with the level and type of cataloguing dependent on the type and composition of the dataset, whether records were already available and affordable, the relative importance of the electronic collection to a library, and the staff resources available.

75% of libraries provided both item level (individual title) cataloguing and collection level cataloguing. The remaining 25% of libraries provided mostly collection level treatment with a record entered in the catalogue to describe the overall dataset.

For example, minimum level records were most often created for large data aggregations or index databases with full text. A number of libraries had developed software that used acquisition lists or title listings supplied by a database provider to automatically generate records in the local catalogue. Alternately, selective full level cataloguing was also provided for individual titles of high relevance to the libraries collection, or to those individually subscribed titles that were included in aggregations.

Bibliographic records available from publishers or database providers were used if the standard of cataloguing was considered sufficient or the records were affordable. It was interesting to note that in many instances, despite the opportunity to reduce a library’s cataloguing burden by using supplier records, this method was not pursued due to concerns about the accuracy and quality of supplier derived data.

The use of multiple format holdings on a single catalogue record, otherwise known as the single record approach, was employed by 85% of libraries, with most choosing this method solely or adopting a mixed approach using multiple records if suppliers did not provide data or where records were generated by programming. Almost all of the libraries that adopted the single record technique, aimed to reflect the change from print to electronic subscription in their local catalogues. With the recent increase in publisher supplied cataloguing records, libraries decisions on single vs. multiple records may change.

The other 15% of libraries pursued a multiple record approach; primarily for maintenance purposes with bulk updates performed to replace an entire set of records rather than amend records individually.

The majority of libraries surveyed (70%) did not adopt different policies or procedures for the discovery of Publisher Databases compared with Index databases. Of those that did, the most noted difference in treatment was that full text titles in index databases were given analytical treatment though two libraries who did differentiate reversed this trend by only providing database level descriptions.

 

Reporting collections to the National Bibliographic Database

Only 50 % of libraries indicated that they added either bibliographic records or holdings for their electronic collections to the National Bibliographic Database. The most commonly cited reason for the non-reporting of holdings was restrictions on document delivery under the terms of the licence agreement with the database provider. This rationale was further compounded by an assumption held by many libraries that the NBD was not the place to record holdings for items with restricted access provisions. As mentioned earlier, some libraries indicated that they generally supplied from the print versions they held in their collections as these mirrored their electronic collections and managing access provisions for electronic copies was often complex and time consuming for document supply staff.

There were a few libraries that planned to contribute records and holdings as soon as they could batch upload to Kinetica.

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PRIORITIES

Survey participants were asked to prioritise and rank specific electronic collections in terms of those considered most important when acquiring records for the National Bibliographic Database (NBD) and also when maintaining records on the NBD. The priority assigned for maintaining records on the NBD corresponded to that of acquiring records for the NBD.

The tables below reveals how the 10 most widely held electronic collections listed above faired when libraries prioritised the collections they would like to see records added to the NBD and maintained on a frequent basis.

Publisher Databases Weighted priority scores

Wiley Interscience

85

Elsevier ScienceDirect

69

MCB University Press Emerald

66

Blackwell Science

36

ACM Digital Library

18

AUSSTATS

16

Project Muse

14

Institute of Physics

9

Oxford University press

Records not requested

Link (or Springer Link, Springer Verlag KG)

Records not requested

 

Index Databases with Full Text Weighted priority scores

Proquest 5000

92

Expanded Academic ASAP International

63

Australian Public Affairs FullText

56

Electric Library Australasia

31

World Magazine Bank

28

ABI Inform Global

19

Lexis-Nexis

16

Health Reference Centre

Records not requested

Computer Database

Records not requested

LegalTrac

Records not requested

 

The weighted priority score is the summation of the rankings assigned to a dataset by all survey respondents who identified it as a priority for the acquisition of bibliographic records or maintenance. Where records or maintenance was not requested this reflects that libraries have access to these records free of charge from the database provider as part of their subscription. Appendix 2 shows rankings for all publisher and index databases that libraries prioritised as requiring bibliographic records.

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STANDARDS

The need for guidelines rather than standards was the most common theme in this part of the survey with 35% of libraries acknowledging that while standards existed, there was a need for further guidance on issues such as:

  • Which fields to use in Kinetica, including mandatory fields or a standard template
  • Guidelines appropriate to each type of resource should be defined with distinctions made between those resources that warrant full cataloguing (e.g. e-journals) and those that do not (e.g. full-text titles on ABI, etc.)
  • Addressing the differing standards between local systems and a national utility
  • Alerting libraries to new standards or guidelines
  • Whether to follow CONSER practice
  • USMARC compliance

From the responses on description it is evident that there is some diversity in local standards when describing and providing access to electronic collections. Though more libraries are cataloguing their collections there is variation in the level of cataloguing applied (i.e. full, intermediate or brief records), the single record approach over multiple records, the different types of USMARC fields used and so on.

Solutions at a national level will be challenging and as one library summed it up, there is a need for ‘agreement by the Australian library community on standards for describing electronic resources.’

There were specific descriptive standards that proved more problematic for libraries.

Field 856 (Electronic Location and Access)

This field contains information to locate and access electronic resources and was viewed by many respondents as the most controversial MARC21 fields used for electronic collections. It belongs to a block of data elements which can be used either within bibliographic or holdings records and this explains the tension between its application as legitimate shared data for general use or institution specific data (ISD) more appropriately confined to local systems or restricted viewing.

Below are some concerns raised by respondents:

  • If URLs appear in the bibliographic record they should be have a uniform placement within the record – this relates particularly to the placement of URLs in notes fields.
  • URLs should not be present when they link to restricted access materials
  • The relevance of 856 field for URL
  • Use of holdings for URL (institution specific information to help un-clutter 856 field)
  • Many 856 fields on Kinetica records point to URLs which are not freely accessible

Single vs. Multiple records

The concerns listed by libraries spanned the full range of issues from how many records to create when a title is available on more than one database to whether all versions of a title can be represented in one bibliographic record. According to current standards libraries have the option to create one or many records in order to express format variations or multiple versions.

General material designation (GMD)

The most consistent issues raised were the choice of which GMD to use in Kinetica and that GMD descriptor terms were not specific enough. To quote from one respondent:

‘Computer File’ has been used for all types of electronic resources and the lack of standard description means that many libraries have invented their own GMDs to use within their local systems eg: "Internet Resources, "online Resources", "Electronic Media", etc’.

There were some respondents who even challenged the value and use of the GMD in that they are inconsistently applied, and of little relevance to users when using a single record to express multiple formats.

Notes and descriptive data elements

The key issues revolved around consistency and uniformity in the application of notes and their content, and the appropriate use of certain descriptive fields.

The following fields were seen as desirable in the description of data sets as they were considered useful for both users and cataloguers.

  • Field 300 (Collation) – To provide more specific format information such whether the item is a CD-Rom, e-journal or online database where the GMD is generic.
  • Field 506 (Restrictions on access notes) – For title requiring password or licence, etc.
  • Field 520 (Summary note) – enabling users to understand the content of a database before initiating a fruitless/unsuitable search.
  • Field 538 (Method of access note) - For information such as how to access (e.g. Via WWW, on site access only) or access restrictions (e.g. remote access to registered users only)

Other fields posed more problematic issues:

  • 362 (Dates of publication/Volume Designation) - the appropriate use of this field for reflecting the original or electronic version e.g.

"The questions of whether the imprint and the 362 (life dates) information should reflect the original publisher or the electronic resource provider should be addressed"

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MAINTENANCE

The upkeep of data for electronic collections is a significant challenge to libraries. Respondents were asked to list local maintenance problems encountered with electronic collections and two issues surfaced as the most problematic update activities for libraries.

URLs

The first issue was maintaining the currency of URLs and in particular knowing when they change, the volatility of URLs and checking that links are still operative. An added burden was the number of links to maintain for any individual title because of duplication across databases.

Titles and content

The other key consideration with maintenance was keeping holdings current when titles are added or deleted from collections. Many libraries indicated that maintaining updated information on holdings in aggregator sets is difficult and this is further compounded by content in aggregators changing or overlapping. There was a strong view that changes in journal titles are generally poorly dealt with by the database providers causing confusion for library staff. There are often many bibliographic inaccuracies which make searching and finding prior or later titles very difficult.

Other maintenance issues in this area included:

  • Coping with title changes when the print and electronic lag behind one another
  • Holdings changes (from print to electronic)
  • Distinguishing print from available online resources
  • Deleting both the print and electronic records when a subscription is cancelled
  • Print and electronic ISSN
  • Changes in levels of depth of content (eg from full text to abstracts only)

Libraries were also asked to suggest maintenance services or functionality they would use either locally or via an external service. The services bore a high correlation to the maintenance problems described above.

The first was any service or system that could help libraries maintain current links or URLs. A number of suggestions were forwarded such as:

  • The use of static links or persistent URLs
  • Automated link checking, re-directing and reporting built into the NBD or Local system
  • URL maintenance on the titles listed on the NBD

The other most requested service was one that could notify libraries of changes in content of electronic collections as well as changes to individual titles, access, and coverage. This included

  • Automatic lists of electronic holdings that could be imported to a local system
  • Automatic update of holdings dates as titles appear and disappear, or as the electronic coverage expands
  • Prompt refreshing of records as contents change at the supplier level.
  • Ability to load easily changes to large databases

Over half the respondents indicated that a centralised service for checking links and alerting libraries to changes in an electronic collection would be very useful. To quote from a few responses:

"Automatic load of records from publishers & Index databases whenever there are changes would be good too. There might be a need to alert the libraries so as to do a mass down load from Kinetica to their local systems!"

"Kinetica should negotiate with vendors to make datasets available via Kinetica

Bibliographic records readily available for copy

  • MARC records for an entire collection for the initial load
  • Regular loads of updated or new records with reliable match points"

"For very large collections we would probably only source cataloguing data from the NBD if we could acquire it as a set – preferably a single file, as would want to include access information prior to loading to the Library’s catalogue"

However, there was a smaller but significant representation of libraries that thought vendors or suppliers of electronic collections should also be more involved in the provision of bibliographic data and services to better manage changes to collections.

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CONCLUSION

Australian libraries are increasingly moving to electronic resources as a source of information to their users. They provide advantages in terms of speed of access, searching, and 24-hour access and availability at the desktop for their clients. Libraries have gained access to resources through purchase, licence or free access covering all subject areas. The move to electronic resources has provided challenges in service delivery, managing access, sourcing and maintaining delivery systems.

The challenge of electronic resources is considerable, and this survey provides a snapshot of access management practice and issues for electronic resources by Australian libraries, and provides a basis to explore the role of the NBD in supporting electronic resource discovery and sharing.

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Appendix 1: List of all datasets identified in the survey

 

Index Databases with Full Text No. of Libraries with access

ABI Inform

5

ABI Inform Global

16

ABI/Inform Select

2

Academic ASAP

5

Academic Research Library

4

Academic Research Newspapers

1

Academic Research Periodicals

1

Academic Search Elite

6

Accounting & Tax

3

AGSM annual reports (1994-)

1

Alt-HealthWatch

2

Annual Report Collection (Connect 4)

6

Applied Science and Technology Plus

5

Art Fulltext

2

Asian Business (Proquest 5000)

7

Austguide

1

Austhealth

1

AustLit

2

Australian Public Affairs FullText

12

Austrom (No fulltext)

1

AVAD online

1

 

 

Banking Information Source

2

BasicBIOSIS® PlusText™

2

Business and Industry

1

Business and Management Policies

1

Business ASAP

2

Business ASAP International

4

Business Dateline

1

Business Periodicals Online

3

Business Source Elite

3

Business Source Premier

2

Butterworths Online

2

 

 

Canadian Serials

2

Career and Technical Education

2

CLEA (WIPO)

1

CLIB 91 & CLIB 96

1

Clinical Reference Systems

1

CLJ Legal Network Malaysia

1

Cochrane Library

6

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

1

Company Prospectuses (Connect 4)

1

Computer Database

14

Contemporary Authors

2

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

1

Contemporary Literary Criticism

1

Contemporary Women’s Issues

1

Core Biomedical Collection

2

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index

4

Custom Database

1

 

 

Dow Jones

2

Dow Jones Interactive

7

Dow Jones Interactive : Fairfax edition

1

 

 

Early English Books Online

2

Education Complete

4

Education Online (British Library)

1

Electric Library Australasia

14

Electronic BCA+ Standards

1

EDRS/ERIC E*Subscribe

2

Ethnic News 95

1

Ethnic Newswatch

1

European Business ASAP

5

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) reviews

3

Expanded Academic ASAP International

19

 

FactSearch

1

Future Trends

4

 

Gender Watch

1

General Academic ASAP

2

General Periodicals Ondisc

2

General Science Plus

4

 

 

Health Business FullTEXT Elite

2

Health Module

2

Health Module (ProQuest)

1

Health Reference Centre

14

Health Source Plus

3

HERA

2

HSC examination papers

1

Humanities Fulltext

1

 

 

IBIS World

1

IEEE/IEE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY (IEL)

4

IIMP Fulltext (International Index of Music Periodicals)

2

IIPA Fulltext (International Index of Performing Arts)

2

ILOLEX

1

Informit Online (some full text)

2

INFORMS PubsOnline

1

 

 

Jutastat

1

 

 

Keesings Record of World Events

2

Knowledge Basket

1

 

 

LegalTrac

13

Lexis (same as Lexis-Nexis (Legal Only)

3

Lexis-Nexis

14

Literature Resource Centre

1

 

 

MacQuarieNet

1

MasterFILE elite

1

Masterfile Premier

1

MasterFile premier (with World Magazine Bank)

1

MathSciNet

2

Medical Library

2

 

 

National Newspaper Index

2

NBER Working Papers

1

Newspaper Source

3

Novelist

1

ODS Online

1

 

Periodical Abstracts Research I

2

Periodicals Abstracts Library

2

Pharmaceutical News Index

3

 

 

Professional Development Collection

4

Proquest 5000

18

ProQuest Computing

7

Proquest Digital Dissertations

2

Proquest Direct

1

ProQuest Education Complete

3

ProQuest European Business

2

ProQuest Medical and Health

2

Proquest Medical Library (Proquest 5000)

4

ProQuest Nursing

5

ProQuest Religion

2

PsychInfo

1

 

 

Resource/One

2

Reuters business briefing

1

 

 

Scifinder Scholar

2

Serials Directory

1

SIRS Researcher

1

Social Science Plus Text

6

 

 

Telecommunications

3

Timebase

1

 

 

United Nations Treaty Collection

1

Unreported Judgements (Australian)

1

 

 

Victorian Law Reports

1

 

 

WARC Advertising and Marketing Knowledge Database

1

Westlaw

2

Wilson Omnifile Full Text - Mega

1

Wilson Select Plus

1

World Almanac

1

World Magazine Bank

10

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Publisher Databases No. of Libraries with access

The following list contains titles of full-text publisher databases including databases containing aggregated journals, monographs or other material. Also included are names of publishers and societies that offer access to full-text electronic titles.

 

ABR StockData

1

Academic Press (Encyclopedia)

1

Academic Press (IDEAL)

4

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

1

ACM Digital Library

16

Acoustical Society of America

2

Age (Newspaper)

1

Albert Einstein Institute

1

Alphamed Press

1

Americal Society of Mechanical Engineers

2

American Academy of Pediatrics

1

American Association for the study of Liver Disease

1

American Association of Blood Banks

1

American Association of Clinical Chemistry

1

American Association of Immunologists

1

American Association of Physics Teachers

2

American Chemical Society

14

American College of Chest Physicians

1

American Dairy Science Association

1

American Gastroenterological Association

1

American Heart Association

1

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

1

American Institute of Biological Sciences

1

American Institute of Physics

4

American Lung Association

1

American Mathematical Society

2

American Medical Association

1

American Meteorological Society

1

American Physical Society

11

American Physiological Society

1

American Psychiatric Association

1

American Roentgen Ray Society

1

American Society for Biochemistry

1

American Society for Cell Biology

1

American Society for Clinical Investigations

1

American Society for Clinical Nutrition

1

American Society for Clinical Oncology

1

American Society for Investigative Pathology

1

American Society for Microbiology

1

American Society for Nutritional Sciences

1

American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics

1

American Society of Civil Engineers

6

American Society of Hematology

1

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1

American Society of Plant Phsyiologists

1

Annual reviews

1

ANSTAT Online

1

Architecture Media Pty. Ltd

1

Association for Information and Image Management

1

Association for Information Management (UK)

1

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

1

Association for Research in Vision & Opthalmology

1

Association of Research Libraries

1

ASTM Standards Source

1

AUSSTATS

26

Australian Animal Health Council

1

Australian Clearing House for Library & Information Science

1

Australian Electronics File

1

Australian Engineering File Online

3

Australian Institute of Building

1

Australian Medical Association

1

Australian National University

1

Australian War Memorial

1

Australian OHS File Online

5

Australian Standards Online

12

 

 

BioScientifica

1

Birkhauser Verlag

1

Blackwell Publishers

9

Blackwell Science

23

Blackwell Science/Munksgaard collection

3

Bolyai Institute

1

Botanical Society of America

1

Bowker

1

British Journal of Radiology

1

British Medical Association

1

British Psychological Society

1

Business Who’s Who in Australia Online

2

Butterworths Online

6

 

 

CABI

2

Cambridge University press (Cambridge Journals Online)

13

Cameron University

1

Campus Review

1

Canadian Mathematical Society

2

Carfax (Taylor and Francis)

4

Catchword

4

CCH Online

9

Cell Press

1

Centre for Environmental Information

1

Centre for Economic Policy Research

1

Chronicle of Higher Education

1

Cold Spring Laboratory Press

1

Columbia Law School

1

Commonwealth Managers Tool Box

1

Company of Biologists

1

ComputerSelect Web

1

Connect4

1

Consumer Index

1

Council for Aboriginal Reconcilation

1

CRC Press

1

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)

2

CSIRO

7

 

 

E & FN Spon

1

Ebsco Online

2

EDP Sciences

1

Electrochemical Society

2

Elsevier Science Direct Web Editions

3

Elsevier ScienceDirect

15

Emerald Intellignece Full-text (MCB)

2

Encyclopedia Life Sciences (ELS)

3

ESDU Aeronautics

1

ESDU Structures

1

ESDU Tribology Online

1

Euromonitor Global Marketing Information Database

3

 

 

Factiva

1

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

1

FirstSearch (OCLC) Electronic Collections Online

2

 

 

Genetics Society of America

1

Geometry and Topology Publications

1

Grolier online

2

Grove Online

1

 

 

Harmonie Park Press

1

Harrison's Online

2

Harvard University Press

1

Heldermann Verlag

1

Heron Publishing

1

High Wire Press

13

HighWire Press – Journal of Biological Chemistry

2

Histochemical Society

1

Humanities Information Technologies Centre

1

 

 

Indiana University Press

1

IHS Australian Electronic File

1

Ingenta journals online

1

Institut Fourier

1

Institute of Chemical Engineers

1

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry

1

Institute of Physics

16

Institution of Civil Engineers

1

International Association for Environmental Hydrology

1

International Press

1

International Society for Neurochemistry

1

Inter-Research

1

 

 

Jane's Information Group

1

Japan Echo

1

Jobson’s Online

7

Jobson’s Yearbook

1

Journals@Ovid

6

JSTOR

3

 

 

Kazan State University

1

Kluwer Online

7

 

 

Law Council of Australia

1

Law Press

1

Lawrence Erlbaum

2

LBC Online

4

Link (same as Springer Link, Springer Verlag KG)

15

Lipid Research Inc

 

Literature Online

6

 

 

Macquarie Online

1

Mary Ann Leibert

1

Massachusetts Medical Society

1

Materials Research Society

1

Mathematical Society of Serbia

1

MCB University Press Emerald/Emerald Intelligence

18

Mims Pharmaceutical

1

MIRA

1

MIT Press

3

Mosby Periodicals

1

Mount Allison University

1

Multilingual Matters

1

Munksgaard

1

 

 

NACE International

1

National Academy of Sciences

1

National Bureau of Economic Research

2

National Centre on Poverty Law

1

National Kidney Foundation

1

National Diet Library

1

NetLibrary

7

NewsCast

1

New Zealand Human Rights Commission

1

 

 

Optical Society of America

1

Oxford University press

17

 

 

Permanent Court of Arbitration

1

Pion Ltd

1

Portland Press

1

Project Muse

15

Project Muse Arts and Humanities

7

Project Muse Duke University Press

1

Project Muse Indiana University Press

1

Project Muse Social Sciences

7

Psychology Press

1

 

 

Radiological Society of North America

1

Reed Business Information

1

Resource Information Unit

1

Reuters Business Briefing

1

Rockefeller University

1

Routledge

6

Royal College of Psychiatrists

1

Royal Society of Chemistry

15

Royal Society of London

3

 

 

Sage

6

Scandinavian University Press

1

Schattauer

1

SIAM Journals Online

5

Society for Endocrinology

1

Society for General Microbiology

1

Society for Leukocyte Biology

1

Society for Neuroscience

1

Society for Optical Engineering

1

Society for the Study of Reproduction

1

Society of Nuclear Medicine

1

Stockton Press

1

Swet Zeitlinger Publishers

2

SwetsNet

2

Sydney Morning Herald

2

 

 

Taylor & Francis

5

The Stationery Office

1

Times Higher Education

1

Times Literary Supplement

1

Turpion

1

 

 

United Kingdom Civil Service

1

United Nations

1

Universitat Bielefeld

1

University of Chicago Press

4

University of Hawaii Press

1

University of Helsinki

1

University of Houston

1

University of NSW

1

University of Southampton

1

University of Texas

1

University of the South Pacific

1

University of Western Australia

1

 

 

Victoria University of Technology

1

 

 

Walter de Gruyter

1

Westlaw

1

Wiley InterScience

20

World Advertising Research Center

1

World Scientific Publishing Co

1

Final Report - Contents


Appendix 2: Electronic collection rankings

Below are the overall rankings of publisher and index databases when libraries were asked to prioritise datasets that required bibliographic records. The weighted priority score is the summation of the rankings (Libraries were asked to rank at least 5 electronic collections in order of priority, with 1 representing the highest priority and 5 the lowest).assigned to the dataset by all survey respondents who identified it as a priority for the acquisition of bibliographic records or maintenance.

Index Databases with Full Text

Bibliographic Records Required for: Weighted ranking scores

ProQuest 5000

92

Expanded Academic ASAP International

63

Australian Public Affairs FullText

56

Electric Library Australasia

31

World Magazine Bank

28

ABI Inform Global

19