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In this presentation, I will argue that the “serials crisis” and the subsequent need for library publishing are best understood not by focusing on the singular actions of individuals or publishers, but through an analysis of neoliberalism—the nation’s predominant economic ideology. In a discourse of critique, I will analyze scholarly journal publishing using the following major elements of neoliberalism: the primacy of the “free market,” privatization, deregulation, and using individualism to justify cuts to social services and to discredit notions of the public good. Critics argue that neoliberalism, a set of political and economic policies that have become widespread over the past 35 years, is a pernicious system that disproportionately benefits a small number of major corporate shareholders. Its effects, which include widening inequality and being prone to crises, are masked by the public’s ignorance, historical amnesia, propaganda, indifference, and austerity. In a discourse of possibility, I will discuss the transformative potential of library-publishers creating and participating in cooperatives. Library publishing can attain greater sustainability and impact through a more robust system of state and regional partnerships based on two major types of cooperatives: worker cooperatives, where the creators of goods and services collectively decide the fate of their work, and purchasing cooperatives, where members mutually benefit by acquiring in solidarity with each other. Cooperative economics is increasingly seen as a viable alternative to neoliberalism, and there are successful stories across the globe. Additionally, the transition by several Latin American nations away from neoliberalism by democratizing their economics and emphasizing the public good and cooperation will be explored. Attendees will be able to contextualize the so-called serials crisis with greater clarity, advocate for library publishing more compellingly, identify more impactful solutions, and have an increased sense of individual and collective agency.

The presentation reveals results of the research that had been made among students and staff of 2nd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University and University Hospital in Motol in May, June and July, 2013. The main goal is to give an overview of their information behaviour as well as to find out how the users are informed about superstructural services (they are reference, search, educational, promotional and interlibrary loan services) which are offered by library itself.

The role of digital publications in the positioning of universities

[Polish university journals in Open Access] Scientific journals are valued by scientists for the reason that they constitute a source of information about the latest projects, carried out independently or collectively, current research and their results. Market for electronic journals in recent years has grown to enormous size, and today the lack of access to the journal via the Internet may have a negative effect on the ranking of the journal. The fact that on-line access to individual titles is preferred by researchers is understandable, because searching for information in e-journals is easier and faster than in printed ones, it is also increasingly possible to access them from home. All this helps to increase the comfort of the scientist’s work. The advantage of this solution is also an increase in range of articles, and in result an increase in the number of citations, important inter alia for the assessment of the researcher’s achievements. Commercial publishers have offered online journals for a fee for many years, and researchers continue to seek access to their resources. However, a sharp increase in fees for periodicals, including electronic journals and other databases contributed to the exploration of new forms of dissemination and sharing knowledge. As a result of these searches the idea of Open Access was conceived. The principle of free access to journals is gradually adopted by academic publishers, also Polish ones. This paper presents examples of Polish university journals available in the formula of open access resources on the Internet. The analysis of journal sources, forms of publishing their online versions and the tools used for their circulation has been carried out.

[Open resources of knowledge – the offer of Polish research libraries] Scientific knowledge is distributed by numerous institutions (including government institutions, publishers, libraries) and authors themselves. Open knowledge resources increase the availability of materials sought by users and enable access to publications that otherwise would be hard to get, from any place and in almost no time. They improve the quality of education, including remote education as well as enable presenting and promoting scientific achievements of Polish scientists in the world. The development of the concept of open knowledge implies a new position of scientific libraries that go between authors and recipients of the knowledge published. Libraries not only gather, store and distribute scientific resources but also provide proper tools that allow access to local and remote knowledge sources both for authors and users. Open resources play increasing role in teaching processes and scientific research run in colleges and universities. Thus academic libraries get involved actively in creating open resources and their distribution (e.g. digital libraries, repositories), as well as in promoting the idea of Open Access in academic environment. In this respect, the review of the open knowledge (full text, bibliographic and abstract databases, digital libraries, portals etc.) on the web sites of libraries is an attempt to answer the question how Polish scientific libraries get involved in popularization of open knowledge resources. The authors present size and variety of free resources offered by academic libraries and means of their. The research run in the first quarter of 2011 covered scientific libraries of public technical and economical universities in Poland.

Powerpoint slides presented at the ITALE (Italian Ex-Libris Users Association), meeting held in Parma on 1-2 Dec 2009. The presentation shows the workflows implemented at the University of Torino to manage the electronic journals, from the collecting of the metadata from publishers and vendors to their import in the Opac database and SFX Knowledge Base.

The implementation of Metalib in UOC's Library was centred in the end user. For the adaptation of Metalib to the users' needs and search behaviour, we carried out three tests: - One with students, conducted by a consulting company; - A second one with teachers, carried out by the Library; - The third, with teachers and staff, also was carried out by the Library, after having made some changes resulting from the first and second test. The tests, made with the software Morae, underlined a number of difficulties to understand the concepts related to metasearching. The tests also showed difficulties in navigating and in managing the search results. All the information gathered was used to improve the navigation through the interface. The presentation tells about the tests’ methodology, the conclusions reached with this experience, and the decisions finally taken by the Library to improve the Metalib interface.

The paper presents e-sources, computer tools and solutions used by the Main Library of Wroclaw University of Technology supporting e-learning projects. First part of the paper describes the use of home page, online catalogue (OPAC), databases, e-journals and e-books services, digital library, remote access tool, link resolver, A to Z list and federated search engine. Second part presents a model license agreements proposed by publishers in the context of e-learning.

In these days of the internet, open access journals, institutional repositories and other alternative publishing methods, it can be difficult to determine the best way to disseminate research. This session was aimed at those who wanted more information about: • Where to publish - Open Access journals vs. traditional journals. • What issues to be aware of including author rights, rights to place in an institutional repository? • What is an institutional repository used for? What kinds of material can be added? • What supports are locally available?

The idea that Turkish libraries should cooperate in the use of electronic journals and databases by setting up a consortium came into being for the first time some 10 years ago when the National Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM) was founded in 1996. Since then, the Consortium of Anatolian University Libraries (ANKOS) was set up. Currently, more than 80 libraries get access to electronic journals through ANKOS and download more than 10 million articles annually. Developed some five years ago, a national site license has been in use to negotiate the license terms with vendors and publishers of databases and electronic journals. Despite the fact that the majority of university libraries get access to electronic journals and databases through consortial agreements, a national site license covering all university libraries has yet to be signed with publishers. Therefore, the development of policies pertaining to the nation-wide access to and the permanent storage of electronic information resources has been hindered. This paper summarizes the developments in Turkey with regards to the consortia and discusses the major issues.

The academic libraries face new needs that arise from the availability of Internet for the management and information dissemination and results of investigation. The electronic magazines produced by the universities with that objective, offer the opportunity to librarians interested in participating from the the Library Science, so that the university magazines in digital format also respond to international norms of edition that allow and facilitate their identification, citation and thematic accessibility on the part of the users who navigate the Web looking for a subject. This presentation, aimed to share with colleagues of academic libraries, refers to the way in which takes place the work in equipment between the academic area - that produces the contents of the academic magazines, and the profesional librarians, with the challenge of obtaining a better identification of the magazine, its citation and its accessibility in the Web and, especially, its greater visibility. Dominique Babini, will share the results of a recent relief on the characteristics, tendencies and pending subjects of academic magazines diseminated in the CLACSO`s Academic Web which has members in universities of 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbee. Mabel Kolesas describes real cases of the form in which the library, from its technical knowledge and experience in information management, can be protagonist in the process of initiating the management of electronic magazines in a Research center of a Faculty, in this case the Institute of Investigations Gino Germani, member center of network CLACSO.

This is the PowerPoint document for the presentation “We own it”: dealing with "perpetual access" in big deals. This was presented at the NASIG 2005 conference. The abstract for the subsequent paper is: This article presents the results of a survey of Canadian university libraries that investigated whether libraries have been able to stay abreast of the many changes that affect their access to paid-for e-content. This report emphasizes the publishers’ obligations to notify licensees when ownership changes hands and libraries’ need to actively pursue licensed content in ownership transfers. The meaning and application of “perpetual access” clauses in e-journal licenses under change-of-ownership situations is also discussed.

This is the PowerPoint handout for the presentation “We own it” : dealing with "perpetual access" in big deals. This was presented at the NASIG 2005 conference. The abstract for the subsequent paper is: This article presents the results of a survey of Canadian university libraries that investigated whether libraries have been able to stay abreast of the many changes that affect their access to paid-for e-content. This report emphasizes the publishers’ obligations to notify licensees when ownership changes hands and libraries’ need to actively pursue licensed content in ownership transfers. The meaning and application of “perpetual access” clauses in e-journal licenses under change-of-ownership situations is also discussed.

CRUI, the Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities, on November 4th 2004, in Messina agreed to the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. By means of the Messina Declaration, published in that day, CRUI activated the Open Access movement in the Italian Academic world. Since then 75 among the 77 Italian Universities formally approved the Messina Declaration and signed the Berlin declaration. In spring 2006 CRUI established a Group Working on Open Access, composed by University professors, librarians and IT experts, with the aim of making “Open Access” happen, sharing the policies and the tools developed for Open Access in the context of the international scientific community. Following the commitment taken on November 2004 in Messina, and renewed in March 2006 in Potsdam at the IV Berlin Declaration Conference, in agreement with the President of the Max Planck Society, Prof. Peter Gruss, CRUI announces that the “Fifth Conference on the implementation of the recommendations in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access” will be organized in September 2007 in Padova. The aim of the conference will be to bring together the various initiatives and key players within the Open Access movement in order to: - maintain the enthusiasm of all people involved in the Open Access field; - have an overview of the developing tools that sustain Open Access in scientific data and cultural heritage dissemination; - develop the effective strategies that can contribute to the construction and implementation of this new paradigm of the scholarly communication world. The general subjects of the conference will focus on: a) state of the art of the sharing of the Berlin Declaration vision: survey on the impact of the new paradigm in the institutions that signed the declaration; supporting bodies policies and activities in favour of innovative scholarly communication processes; b) the Open Access scene in the developing countries and emerging economies: strategies, achievements, impact; c) Open Access and the e-science: how to support the free circulation of scientific raw data to facilitate cooperation and effective reuse; d) e-publishing: the emerging of new strategies in scientific data dissemination/communication: estimate of the impact in Open Access journals, new tools for scholarly evaluation in the growing layer of Open Access publications, the perspective of a changing landscape in the scientific journals policy; e) local/national IT developments that support e-publishing and Open Access, national and international consortia.

This paper presents an overarching view of our e-resource management activities and specifically describes the UIUC Library Journal and Article Locator (JAL) system. The JAL pulls together a number of disparate search environments into one unified display without having to search each one independently of the others. With JAL, the Library provides one-stop access to both print and electronic journals at the title and article level. Resource integration has become the key component to providing an all-encompassing search experience, giving users access to the full range of the Library’s collections. This year, our program will give a detailed view of how Journal and Article Locator integrates various resources into one search environment and outline what is involved with setting up this system.

All Academic Institutions, that participate in the Consortium, have realised that the collaboration between the academic libraries, for the joint access in sources of information, should be continued and solidified. In the frames of recent contacts of the committee with factors of the Ministry of Education and with representatives of various academic institutions, it was realised that the Consortium has been guaranteed in the conscience of the academic community, as well as the Ministry. We accomplished to become conscience of all responsible institutions the fact that the collaboration of academic libraries should be continued and should been financed constant and regularly. The journals' action is considered today as the most achieved and during the running year was strengthened economically. In this informative presentation will become in detail report in the course of work from November 2004 until today, as well as in the prospects that are erased for our future course.

Seville University Library (Spain) offer a diverse array of information resources—both in electronic and print formats. The challenge for this library is to provide access to all of these resources in an integrated and user-friendly way. Millennium Access Plus (MAP) from Innovative Interface is the tool than enable Seville library to provide access to all of their information resources. These resources include digital collection, archival collections, Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases, full-text aggregators, and library catalogs like FAMA, Seville catalog. MAP is an integrated solution that manages access to information resources, quickly guiding patrons and staff to Internet content, while protecting the rights of the library and content providers. MAP leverages resource selection decisions and integrates the searching power of the Web OPAC and Millennium staff modules into a suite of resource access management tools.

The objective of this paper is to present a new service from the Seville University library: “Materiales didácticos” (learning materials). This service tries to summarize all learning objects that the Universidad de Sevilla offers to their students about the various disciplines tought. The service is a result of the cooperation between subject librarians and the academic staff.

The main of this paper is to present a new service from the Seville University library: “Materiales didácticos”. This service try to summarize all learning objects Seville University offers to their students in relation with their presenciales subjects. This products is thanks to relationship between subjects librarians and academic professors.

In November 1998 Heal-link signed the first license agreement for electronic access to Elsevier's publications through ScienceDirect. Five years later, all members of HEAL-link (the Consortium of the Greek Academic Libraries) cancelled all their print subscriptions to 13 major publishers and moved to electronic. The access to the information is now provided only online. Five years after the first agreement we can evaluate the benefits of the collaboration within Greek Academic and Research Libraries and plan a strategy for access to scientific information in the years to come.

This paper presents the work of the Permanent Committee for Electronic Journals of the HEAL-Link Consortium on the advances on this issue during the period between the 11th to the 12th Panhellenic Conference of Academic Libraries. The second part of this paper presents an overview of the usage of the services that are offered by HEAL-Link.

One of the main characteristics of electronic journals is the minimization of the required cost and time for their publishing. However the tight co-relation between the print and electronic subscriptions' prices is a major problem for libraries, which their budget decreases year by year. In this paper we present the main e-journals characteristics and we study a set of problems concerning their production and management. We also present the efforts and initiatives taken by the libraries in order to deal with the managerial and financial problems revealed by the transition from print to electronic journal collections. Finally we present a model concerning the activities and skills that the libraries and librarians should to develop in order to face the challenges of e-publishing evolution.

The Canadian university library members of two consortial e-journal arrangements were surveyed to determine how many of the corresponding print journals had been cancelled as a result of participation in the online packages. The survey results indicated that the number of current print subscriptions held by the libraries had notably decreased. This paper discusses this loss of print and presents two options, with examples, for dealing with the archiving of print journals, Distributed Print Archiving and Back-up Repositories. The question of whether anything really needs to be done is also addressed.

The aim of this presentation is to provide a brief description of the progress of work, concerning one of the three actions of the project "Networking of the Libraries of the 3rd grade Academic Institutions". The action mentioned above is: "Rationalization of the Periodicals Collections in Greek Academic Libraries". This cooperation aims at an effort to address the problem of the price increases of scientific journal publications. Almost three years after the creation of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link the course of action has proved to be successful and the results have had a direct impact on the Greek academic libraries' ability to provide timely and accurate scientific information to the academic community. Today, it is generally accepted that HEAL-Link provides services of vital importance that upgrade not only the services of the academic and research libraries but the academic education in Greece. Many of the problems that libraries face are impossible to be solved by each university separately. These problems must be dealt with, at a collective level, so that new and necessary foundations are built for planning a national strategy in the area of provision of scientific information. Up to now, the funding within the context of the 2nd European Support Framework has given Greek Academic Libraries the means to adjust to their new role which is providing and disseminating information; and evolve from storage places for books into information centers. The libraries of Universities and TEIs (Technology Educational Institutes) of our country together with the libraries of the Research Foundations, the National Library, the Library of the Academy of Athens and the Library of the University of Cyprus have currently access to 3500 electronic journal titles and 12 bibliographic databases. This fact, apart from being an international success in itself-:our consortium is one of the few national consortia -proves the enormous potential that we have if we undertake-action at a collective level. However, if this effort does not continue within the context of the 3rd European Support Framework in the near future, what will be the future of the academic libraries in Greece? What will be their collections' size and to what degree will they be able to cover the increased information needs of the academic community? The usage statistics of electronic journals and databases which are now available through HEAL-Link prove the need for access to a wide spectrum of information. Although HEAL-Link cannot cover all the information needs of its member institutions, can, by continuing the current services and expanding in moderation, cover the basic information needs of the Greek academic community for scientific information in the years to come.

This paper explore how Spanish academic libraries associated into Madroño, are responding to the boom of electronic journals. The first phenomenon that appears it´s outsourcing or renting the access to the electronic collections. This paper summarises some questions from the perspective of the spanish academic libraries

This paper aims on demonstrating the objective limits of a digital library system, when self-restricted within the frame of the capabilities of an organisation not invoking or exploiting the synergies of a wider operation environment. The methodology followed includes: Description of the 7 components of the Digital Library of NDC: i.e. 1). Electronic journals Collection, 2). Hellenic Interlibrary Loan Network, 3). Collection of digitised Dissertation Thesis, 4). Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 5). Collection of gray literature (Digitisation of conference proceedings), 6). Digitisation of Hellenic journals 7). Provision and exploitation of installed data bases. For each one of the components data on size and usage are given. The limits of further development and exploitation are traced under conditions of closed environments while capabilities and mutual benefits resulting from cooperation with relative organisations are presented.

In the recent years academic libraries in Greece and abroad are faced with intense financial problems mainly due to the escalating journals' budgets. The number of new serial publications is growing every day, subscription prices are rising far above inflation, while libraries' budgets are reduced or remain the same. The rapid development of the new electronic information field offers better access and new opportunities for libraries but at a higher cost. Libraries internationally get involved in cooperative actions to face the above mentioned crisis. Every year, the Greek Universities spend an enormous amount of money for journals' subscriptions, only to find out that it is not enough to meet the educational and research needs of their faculty members and students. So far each institution acts as a separate unit, with the result that there is a lot of duplication among the journals' subscriptions of the different institutions, while for major journal titles there are no subscriptions in Greece. This fact shows an ineffective management of public money. The best alternative for the Greek Universities to get through the crisis and live up to their mission is to seriously consider close cooperation amongst their libraries. This way they would help to stabilize the rising costs of subscriptions and would extend the access level of each unit, taking advantage of the new technologies.

The Steering Group for periodicals was assigned by the governing body of the Horizontal Action for Libraries {funded by the 2nd Community Support Framework). The task was to implement the proposals of the final report of the Working Group of Periodicals titled «A rational collection development of the Scientific Journals of the Greek Academic Libraries". The Steering Group's main concern was the introduction of the international scientific electronic information to the Greek Academic Libraries in the most efficient and effective way. The actions that followed proved that the goal was attainable. The first step was the creation of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link). Then, negotiations with publishers took place and agreements were signed, providing the Greek Academic Community with a large volume of important scientific content in electronic format in order to meet its scientific research and educational needs. Furthermore, the Steering Group in an effort to_promote the cooperation amongst libraries, has studied and is making an effort to apply modern scientific methods and techniques for: 1. the analysis of the current situation concerning the journals collection development, the current needs of the academic community and the rational management of financial resources and 2. The definition and prerequisites to make the best of the libraries' periodicals acquisitions, nationally. The fact that the project took off immediately (with the absorption of the necessary funds) proves: • the necessity of access to the above mentioned scientific material • the necessity for the cooperation of the Greek Academic Libraries and • the necessity to safeguard the current developments and extent its actions to other fields.

Consortia of Hellenic Libraries. The “necessary merit” of the Digital libraries. The level of development of new information technologies determines the co operational relations between libraries. A brief, comparative retrospection on the evolution of new information technologies, the collaborative relations of Greek libraries and the main role that libraries are playing each period, verifies the above predicate. Emphasis is laid on (yet under formation) collections of electronic journals of Greek libraries, prevalent tendencies, economic, technical and institutional variables. These variables objectively establish libraries collaboration as the “necessary good” of the digital libraries. A framework of positions and rules is also described for a feasible and reasonable policy on the coordinated development of the national collection of electronic journals.

Digital Libraries on INTERNET, as a key for the upgrading of information and library services The qualitative upgrading of the services offered by libraries and information services are connected with the existence and operation of digital libraries in the Internet. Definitions are presented, while distinction between terms like electronic, digital and virtual library as well as Libraries Networks and libraries consortia are provided. A brief reference to a number of the most important publishers, involved in the area of digital information provision, follows. The various components of a digital library from the content, procedures and technical characteristics points of view are described. Commends are also provided concerning technological, institutional and librarianship issues, arisen during the current transitional phase of establishment of digital libraries. Finally a checklist of actions to do is presented including the procedures needed for the development and the operation of a digital library system.

The qualitative upgrading of the services offered by libraries and information services are connected with the existence and operation of digital libraries in the Internet. Definitions are presented, while distinction between terms like electronic, digital and virtual library as well as Libraries Networks and libraries consortia are provided. A brief reference to a number of the most important publishers, involved in the area of digital information provision, follows. The various components of a digital library from the content, procedures and technical characteristics points of view are described. Commends are also provided concerning technological, and institutional issues as well as problems faced by librarians, arisen during the current transitional phase of establishment of digital libraries. Finally a checklist of actions to do is presented including the procedures needed for the development and the operation of a digital library system.