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Activities report 2004

1. Government agreement to improve libraries

2. ILS change

3. ICOLC

4. Union catalogue

5. Digital Library of Catalonia

6. e-repositories

Government agreement TO improve libraries

• Government agreement on 20.07.04• Proposes measures to promote the

cooperation and to create collective tools• Creates a monitoring commission formed by

the Departments of- Culture- Education- Universities, Research and Information

Society

Measures of the Government Agreement

• To promote cooperation:- Libraries gathered in networks- Coordinated selection of automated systems- Cooperative licensing of e-information

• To strengthen and/or to create collective tools:- Union catalogue of Catalonia- Library services on a national basis

- Loan- Storage of low use books

Joint ILS tender

• Participating libraries- Universities- National Library- Public libraries- Open to other libraries

• Benefits: - To create a users’ community in Catalonia - To ease the creation of common library services- Search for economy of scale

ICOLC Fall'04 Barcelona

• ICOLC meeting organized by CBUC• 28-30 October 2004• 132 participants

(33 countries of the 5 continents) • 27 papers, 30 speakers• http://www.cbuc.es/icolc04bcn/

ICOLC Barcelona: participants

ICOLC Barcelona: evaluation

• Opinion of the participants about the congress organization:50% Very satisfied50% Satisfied

• Opinion about the papers exposed:52% Very satisfied43% Satisfied5% Little satisfied

• Some comments:

“ICOLC meeting is very important for consortia staff. It is very concentrated information, the occasion to share information and experiences. So, please, go on with the actual formula.And again thanks to the organizers.”

“Thank you very much for a very well organised and interesting conference!”

CCUC: data at 31.12.04

• 2.650.116 records correspondent to 5.300.000 items

• 54 institutions

• 150 libraries• 350 cataloguers

CCUC: E-resources cataloguing

15.344 full-text e-resources:- 9.244 e-journals (6.903 licensed by the consortium)

- 3.658 e-books (1.860 licensed by the consortium)

- 2.003 e-theses - 364 e-subject guides (created by the universities of

the consortium)

- 75 online databases (34 licensed by the consortium)

BDC: Budget evolution(in thousands of euros)

1.000 1.000

90390

4.850

6.250

7.309

210

210 517

90 90 180 0180

4.640

5.040

5.792

0300

1.140

420

2.2802.280

1.320

600

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Spanish government (ISI) Catalan government CBUC members TOTAL

BDC Contributions

Government 20%

Members 80%

BDC: New licenses in 2004

AxA (All for All)• e-journals:

- JSTOR (481 titles)- Springer (500 titles)

• Databases: - PsycInfo (psychology)- ProQuest Medical Library (health sciences)

• e-books:- Oxford Reference Online (100 reference books)

BDC: SxS licensing

Some for some:- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1.800 e-books, 7 institutions)

- Annual Reviews (31 items, 7 institutions)

- ACM (230 e-journals and working papers, 6

institutions)

BDC: Use of licensed resources

Study in collaboration with the School of Librarianship (Universitat de Barcelona):

The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003). Published in: D-Lib Magazine, June 2004, vol. 10, no. 6.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/anglada/06anglada.html

(Spanish and Catalan versions available at: http://www.cbuc.es/5digital/55docs.htm)

Main conclusions of the study:

• Important consortium profit:32,22% of downloaded articles come from

e-journals not previously subscribed at any CBUC library

• Use dispersion:35% of journals answer the 80% of the

information needs• In general, the conclusions are very near to

other international studies in this area

e-repositories

• Theses and dissertations• Table of contents database• Catalan e-journals• Working papers & grey literature

Theses repository: TDR

• Over 2.500 e-thesis • Full-text open access• 13 universities participating (9 CBUC + 4 not CBUC)• Same interface and working methods for all = visibility

and union progress• Members of NDLTD (we adapted the software, that is

free)• Indexed in Google / OAI• 99.000 monthly average questions in 2004

www.tdr.cesca.es

Theses repository: TDR

E-TOC database

• E-TOC database of the journals subscribed at CBUC libraries (and they’re at CCUC)

• Over 6 millions of articles, 12.000 journals• Open access • 14% of the table of contents are introduced by the CBUC

libraries (the others come from a subscription agent and UCM, ULR)

• Links to the CBUC record and to the full-text (if the journal has a consortium license)

http://sumaris.cbuc.es/

E-TOC database

Catalan scholarly journals portal: RACO

• Open access portal to spread and improve the visibility of the catalan scholarly journals (about 300)

• Now 40 full-text journals• Full-text open access • Project supported economically by the Catalan

government• Working methods similar to TDR

http://sumaris.cbuc.es/raco

Catalan scholarly journals portal : RACO

Research papers repository: RecerCat

• Portal to improve visibility for research papers created at the Catalan universities (working papers, preprints, reports, etc.)

• Now the database is a prototype (26 documents)• Full-text open access• Free software: DSpace• Working methods similar to TDR and RACO

http://dspace.cesca.es:8088/wp/index.jsp

Research papers repository : RecerCat