A few changes at JIBS User Group

Following our AGM in December, the committee has had a few changes. The rest of us thanked Sue Cumberpatch for her hard work over the last 3 years as Chair, and the major contribution she has made to the work that the JIBS User Group does. Sue will stay on the committee for the next year at least. I have now taken over as Chair, and Louise Cole takes over as Vice Chair. Other committee roles are taken by James Caudwell who takes over as secretary and June Hedges who continues as Treasurer.

Liz Stevenson, Ian Mayfield and Roger Hines have all now stepped down from the committee, but will continue as JIBS advisors. They have all made significant contributions to the work the JIBS User Group does, and we will miss them all at committee meetings. But we welcome some new faces: Nadine Edwards, University of Greenwich; Julie Hamley, University of West of England and Catherine Robertson, University of Birmingham. The other change that occurred last year, was that Joan Bird stepped down as the Research Council representative, and was replaced by Maggie Johnston from Rothamsted Research . We look forward to working with them all in the future.

We are already planning our summer workshop, and will release details as soon as they are available.

Slides from December 2010 JIBS event

Thanks to all who attended our workshop:

Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review

Thanks especially to our speakers, all of whom bravely battled the elements to be there and gave very interesting presentations. Slides from the event can now be found on the JIBS website.

Next JIBS event: "Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review" (York, 2nd Dec)

Our next JIBS event will be looking at the highly topical area of how academic libraries respond to dramatic funding cuts in the "Age of Austerity".

How can we negotiate better deals from publishers? Is there a role for greater collaboration?

The workshop will be held at the King's Manor in York, on Thursday 2nd December 2010.

Speakers include: Sally Curry (Research Information Network); Jill Taylor-Roe (NESLi2); Tony Kidd (SHEDL) and Martin Gill (University of Leeds).

The JIBS AGM will take place at lunchtime and this year we are pleased to welcome the winner of the JIBS student prize 2010: Nicky Ransom, who will give a short presentation based on her dissertation.

For more details about this event or to book a place:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/work2gether/programme.htm

JIBS Ovid enhancement group - minutes available

The minutes of the meeting of Ovid enhancement group held 9th July 2010 can be found at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/liaison/OVIDSP/minutes.html

JIBS-Ebsco Enhancement Meeting - Minutes

The minutes of the last meeting are now available on the JIBS website at
Ebsco Minutes for June 30th 2010

"Where now for resource licensing"? summary

Catherine Parker (University of Huddersfield / JIBS committee member) has written a summary of the JIBS/EduServ workshop "Where now for resource licensing"? held earlier this month:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/licensing/licensingsummaryparker.pdf

Andy Powell's summary of JIBS/Eduserv Event

Further to Sue's summary of Wednesday's event, you may be interested to read this version by Andy Powell of Eduserv:

http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2010/06/where-next-for-resource-licensing.html

Where now for resource licensing? - slides available

The speakers' presentations from Wednesday's JIBS/EduServ workshop "Where now for resource licensing?" are now available at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/intro.html

Eduserv-JIBS licensing event 16 June - summary

Thank you to everyone at JIBS and Eduserv who helped organise yesterday's event. And a big thank you to all of the excellent speakers. It was a well-attended and interesting event. The slides and a more detailed summary will apppear via this blog and the JIBS website in the next week.

Owens Stephens's entertaining keynote set out some of the challenges we face in making e-resources available - especially with regard to the changing expectations of our users, which mean licences need to be flexible. He asked - is walk-in access no longer the key issue it once was? Louise Cole of Kingston University reinforced this by giving a very useful and comprehensive overview of the types of user groups we encounter (including some in a submarine!). Josephine Burt of the Open University described the particular issues faced by the OU in providing resources for users who are all off-site, and the increasing number of collaborative courses where the boundaries for licensing become very fuzzy. Jenny Carroll of Eduserv then gave us summary results from a survey of Eduserv data contacts, which gathered information about the types and levels of partnership arrangements out there. Jenny also asked participants at the event to feedback on their priorities for extending licences to external groups.

After lunch (where the buzz of discussion was very lively), Matt Durant explained Bath Spa University's decision to use Open Athens rather than Shibboleth, and included a useful demonstration of the technicalities. Mark Bide of EDItEUR gave a very enlightening presentation about machine readable licences, particularly ONIX-PL, and stressed the need for librarians and others to specify ONIX-PL compliance from providers. Ed Dee of EDINA also encouraged us to demand SAML compliance from service providers, with a useful technical illustration of why this is not currently the norm, which means granularity of usage data cannot be achieved. Finally, Martyn Jansen of Eduserv summed up the issues, and reported on a detailed analysis which Eduserv have carried out of providers' licence terms. Eduserv plan to refine their licence terms to make them relevant to today's users and make them more future-proof, but are still open to suggestions from the library community.

Ebsco Enhancement Meeting - June 29th

There will be an Ebsco Enhancement meeting on June 29th in Birmingham. Could you please send any questions you would like me to put to Ebsco staff by June 22nd

Regards

Maureen

Maureen Richardson
Electronic Resources Manager
Edge Hill University

richardm@edgehill.ac.uk