Managing the Electronic Resources Lifecycle: Creating a Comprehensive Checklist Using Techniques for Electronic Resource Management (TERMS)

Hosburgh, Nathan

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2014.880028

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“…Apart from the allocation of the funds, librarians face several challenges in management of online databases such as selection, acquisition, distribution, usage and renewal. These databases have a particular life cycle having different steps to be followed carefully (Hosburgh, 2014;Okoye and Ugwuanyi, 2012;Chandel and Saikia, 2012). Techniques for electronic resource management (TERMS) is a project initiated by Jill Emery and Graham Stone which provides a detailed guide consisting of six stages for successful management of electronic resources (Emery and Stone, 2013).…”

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Current practices of management of online databases at university libraries in Maharashtra state of India

Wadekar

Nagarkar

2018

Library Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to know-how the university libraries are managing online databases, especially from the Maharashtra state of India. The focus is to study the difficulties and challenges faced by the university librarians. Design/methodology/approach -In this descriptive research, survey of 15 university libraries was conducted. Seven universities are subscribing online databases apart from databases accessible under national consortia. A comprehensive questionnaire comprised of 16 sections and total 47 questions was designed for data collection. Personal contacts helped to a great extent to get back the questionnaire. Findings -The study revealed that the university librarians are trying to cope up with the management of electronic resources. Major challenges are unawareness about the life cycle of electronic resources, lack of standard procedures, collection development and preservation policies, failed to conduct user information need surveys, negotiation skills, competencies of staff and so on.Research limitations/implications -The scope of the present research was to study the current practices of management of online databases subscribed by the university libraries in Maharashtra. Other types of electronic resources were not considered in the present study. It was found that out of 15 universities only seven universities subscribe the online databases apart from the databases provided by UGC-INFONET. Therefore, the data from these seven libraries were considered for analysis. Practical implications -This study will provide the guidelines for managing online databases in academic libraries. Originality/value -Very few studies are conducted to study the management of online databases by university librariesin India.

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Current practices of management of online databases at university libraries in Maharashtra state of India

Wadekar

Nagarkar

2018

Library Management

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“…But before that, they would have to check the availability of relevant infrastructure, including access to high-speed Internet connection and setting-up of IP addresses and proxy to provide remote access. Toward this end, librarians may also need to conduct training programs for users at regular intervals (Sunil and Rukminamma, 2013;Hosburgh, 2014;Sinha and Gautam, 2015;Mclean and Canham, 2018).…”

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Management of electronic resources by management institute in Pune City: a survey

Dhiwar

2021

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PurposeThe present study was conducted to find what practices Pune city's management institutes are following for managing their online databases. Essentially, the purpose of the research was to study librarians' awareness about the life cycle of electronic resources and how to manage their life span, so that the data in use do not go obsolete.Design/methodology/approachThis experimentative study was based on a structured questionnaire designed to discover whether librarians of Pune's management institute followed the recommended six-step process in managing the life cycle of institutes' electronic resources as proposed by Jill Emery and Graham Stone in their Techniques in Electronic Resource Management (TERMS).FindingsOur study revealed that the librarians are not following any fixed protocol and are managing electronic resources in an ad hoc manner as per their own discretion. A majority are not even aware of the six steps the TERMS model prescribed for managing electronic databases.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of the study is to find the current practices of management of electronic resources at management institutes / colleges affiliated to Savitiribai Phule Pune University. Institutes which are not subscribing any database other than databases provided by UGC-INFONET thus got excluded from the study.Originality/valueA comprehensive literature review revealed that although such studies have been carried out elsewhere in the world, there is nothing specific to the Indian scenario. This study aims to plug that information gap.

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“…A team of three people in the CD Department process new acquisitions. An acquisitions checklist, developed by Nathan Hosburgh (2014), guides the acquisitions process and is broken into three distinct stages: trialing, negotiation and acquisition, and, finally, implementation. During these stages, the CD team struggled with alternatingly redundant and dropped communications that inhibited new acquisitions, generating confusion about project status, progression, and completion.…”

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Applying Kanban principles to electronic resource acquisitions with Trello

Ostergaard

2016

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

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Managing the Electronic Resources Lifecycle: Creating a Comprehensive Checklist Using Techniques for Electronic Resource Management (TERMS)

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Current practices of management of online databases at university libraries in Maharashtra state of India

Current practices of management of online databases at university libraries in Maharashtra state of India

Management of electronic resources by management institute in Pune City: a survey

Applying Kanban principles to electronic resource acquisitions with Trello

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