caren milloy, head of projects, jisc collections liber 2012
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Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections
LIBER 2012
• Invested £42 million in centralised perpetual licensing of historic book, journal archive and multimedia content on behalf of all UK HE and FE community
• National licensing enables us to leverage high discounts of up to 95%
• 2012: historic book and journal archives licensing brings in efficiency savings of over £18million to UK HE and FE
• Protect & preserve• Independent service• Affordable to all• Simplify user experience• Simplify administrative
management• Community owned• Community developed
Standardising Licensing
Philosophy: keep it simple for librarians and end users
• 42 variation agreements negotiated• 2 sub-licence agreements for all the content (1
for JISC MediaHub and 1 for JISC Historic Books & JISC Journal Archives)
• Text and data mining, open metadata, enhance metadata, thumbnails open on the web, modifications…..
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Community Owned3 Advisory Boards made up of researchers, teaching staff, librarians, content experts. In charge of the ££££
• JHB will be an easy to use, comprehensive, dynamic, innovative and sustainable platform that is continually used by researchers, teachers and learners in UK higher and further education
• JHB will pioneer new technologies and techniques to support changes in the scholarly environment and user behaviour
• JHB will open up and widen access to historical printed materials through partnerships and international collaborations
Development Principles
Seamless Access
students apply a‘consistent and predictable information-seeking strategy and therefore a ‘less is more’ approach
may be more suitable in guiding students to resources (Head and Eisenberg , 2009)
‘library systems must do better at providing seamless access to resources’. (Connaway and
Dickey, 2010)
Clean Interface
‘library systems and interfaces need to look familiar to people by resembling popular Web
interfaces, and library services need to be easily accessible and require little or no training to use’
(Connaway et al, 2011)
Search Strategy
The JISC Historic Books landing page and search box
Search Strategy
• Presentation of search results and filters in JISC Historic Books
Presentation of search results and filters in JISC Historic Books
Search Strategy
Search results and filtering be Journal Archive on JISC Journal Archives
Search results and filtering options on JISC MediaHub
Consistency
“navigating from one system to another – all of which have different functionalities and different
bells and whistles with respect to searching, limiting / refining, indexing, saving and storage
or exportation – is confusing to users”
(UBiRD, Wong et al, 2009)
Information Literacy
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Mistakes, challenges and solutions
User behaviour & change
‘different combinations of search components, which depends on their level of literacy and the domain
knowledge’ (Wong et al, 2009).
Compare & Contrast
Misconceptions
Anecdotal evidence in the form of comments from users whose institutions have transferred to
JHB suggest that ‘JISC OCR’ on JHB is of much poorer quality than the ECCO content on the
Cengage platform
Need to develop information literacy skills
Metadata
You don’t know anything until you know the metadata
Centralised Server &
Editorial Board
18th Century Connect
Proquest / Cengage /
British Library
TypeWright software
(expert editing)
Widget (quick edits)
JISC Historic Books
TEI-A used to send the textual changes back and forth
UK HE & FE
Date & time stamped with versioning
Taking control
Conclusion
• Read the research• Be transparent with content owners and
community• Start with the metadata• Don’t give in on negotiations• Harness the community you serve – they are
your experts and your critics• Keep it simple
References• Connaway, L. S., and Dickey, T. J. (2010). The Digital Information Seeker: Report on
the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN and JISC User Behaviour Projects. Dublin, OH., OCLC Research. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf
• Connaway, L. S., Dickey, T. J., and Radford, M. L. (2011). “If it is too inconvenient I’m not going after it”: convenience as a critical factor in information-seeking behaviors. Library and Information Science Research, 33, 179-190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2010.12.002
• Hampton-Reeves, S., Mashiter, C., Westaway, J., Lumsden, P., Day, H, Hewertson, H., et al (2009). Students’ use of research content in teaching and learning: a report for the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC), Preston, Centre for Research-informed Teaching, University of Central Lancashire. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/studentsuseresearchcontent.pdf
References• Head, A. and Eisenberg, M. (2009). Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek
Information in the Digital Age. Washington, The Information School, University of Washington. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_finalv_YR1_12_2009v2.pdf
• JISC Collections (2009). JISC national e-books observatory project: Key findings and recommendations. Final Report, November 2009. London, JISC Collections. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://observatory.jiscebooks.org/reports/jisc-national-e-books-observatory-project-key-findings-and-recommendations/
• JISC Collections. (n.d.). Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/
• JISC Historic Books Advisory Board. (n.d.). Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/advisory-board/jhbadvisoryboard/
• Prabha, C., Connaway, L. S. and Dickey, T. J. (2006). Sense-making the information confluence: The whys and hows of college and university user satisficing of information needs. Ohio, The Ohio State University. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/imls/default.htm
References• Prabha, C., Connaway, L. S. and Dickey, T. J. (2006). Sense-making the information
confluence: The whys and hows of college and university user satisficing of information needs. Ohio, The Ohio State University. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/imls/default.htm
• Research Information Network. (2006). Researchers and discovery services: Behaviour, perceptions and needs. London: Research Information Network. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessinginformation-resources/researchers-and-discovery-services-behaviour-perc.
• Text Creation Partnership. (n.d). Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/Text Creation Partnership
• Wong, W., Stelmaszewska, H. and Barn, B. (2009). JISC user behaviour observational study: User behaviour in resource discovery. London, JISC Collections. Retrieved 31 May 2012 from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/ubirdfinalreport.aspx
Thank you JISC Collectionswww.jisc-collections.ac.uk
JISC eCollectionswww.jiscecollections.ac.uk
JISC Historic Bookswww.jischistoricbooks.ac.uk
JISC Journal Archiveswww.jiscjournalarchives
JISC MediaHubwww.jiscemediahub.ac.uk
Caren MilloyHead of ProjectsJISC Collections
@carenmillioy