A Collaborative, Criteria-Based Approach for Electronic Resource Purchase and Renewals

Bordeaux, Abigail; McManus, Alesia

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A Collaborative, Criteria-Based Approach for Electronic Resource Purchase and Renewals

dc.contributor.author	Bordeaux, Abigail	en_US
dc.contributor.author	McManus, Alesia	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	State University of New York at Binghamton	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-03-09T19:06:41Z
dc.date.available	2007-03-09T19:06:41Z
dc.date.issued	2007-02-22
dc.description	Abigail Bordeaux was the Electronic Resources Librarian at Binghamton University from September 2000 through June 2006, when she became Coordinator of Digital Library Initiatives. In the latter role she has helped get a digitization operation up and running and has researched such topics as digital preservation and repositories. Alesia McManus is a subject specialist librarian at Binghamton University. Her subject areas are Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Engineering Discovery & Design, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Binghamton University Libraries developed a collaborative, criteria-based approach to support electronic resources renewal decisions and to develop and prioritize a wish list of needed resources. In light of a flat collections budget, we needed a way to evaluate our current subscriptions to determine their continued relevance. We also wanted to create a wish list of needed resources to share with the University administration as a means to demonstrate the need for a base budget increase and to be prepared in the event that funds became available. It was important that our process be inclusive of all the subject librarians and that it be able to equitably assess needs across disciplines, taking into account breadth of use and audience as balanced against depth and uniqueness of the resource. One of the speakers was part of a team at the University of Maryland Libraries that developed a decision grid for electronic resources cancellation decisions. The purpose of the grid, which included factors of access; cost effectiveness; breadth/audience; and uniqueness, was to allow the participants to objectively judge electronic resources against an agreed upon set of criteria. We will discuss how this process was adapted for use by Binghamton University Libraries and evaluate how it performed in a different research library environment.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13615
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dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Collaboration	en_US
dc.subject	Criteria-based decision approach	en_US
dc.subject	Decision grid	en_US
dc.subject	Electronic resource renewals	en_US
dc.subject	Subject specialist librarians	en_US
dc.title	A Collaborative, Criteria-Based Approach for Electronic Resource Purchase and Renewals	en_US
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local.relation.ispartofseries	Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference
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