Research in Library and Information Science in India

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Research and Markets: Use of LIbraries

Library use of E Books
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc56vs/library_use_of) has announced the addition of the "Library Use of eBooks, 2013 Edition" report to their offering.
This 103-page study is based on data from 68 public, academic, corporate, legal and government libraries, with data broken out by type of library, size of library and other criteria. The study paints a portrait of how libraries are using eBooks and covers spending, budgets, contracts, licensing, number of licenses maintained, and aggregator and publisher preferences and aggregator vs publisher sales as a percentage of total eBook spending. The report also presents detailed data on library spending on particular retail vendors such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all other online book vendors. The report also presents data on e-audio books, use of consortium purchasing arrangements for eBooks, the impact of eBooks on interlibrary loan, range of titles typically available for eBook rental at libraries, the impact of tablets and other eBook reading devices, the impact of eBooks on course reserves for higher education libraries, the evolving state of dedicated endowments for eBooks, use of and spending on eDirectories, trends in eBook pricing as experienced by libraries, trends in eBook collection planning, use of eTextbooks and more.
Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
- Spending on e-textbooks will increase from a mean of $1,042 in 2012 to approximately $1,528 in 2013 for the libraries in the sample
- Public libraries have spent a mean of $8,750 on electronic and internet versions of directories
- Libraries in the sample expect to renew almost 75 percent of their current e=book contracts upon completion
- 37.13 percent of e-book orders made by libraries in the sample are placed with e-book divisions of traditional book jobbers or distributors
- On average, libraries in the sample have experienced a mean increase of 17.93 percent in the price of e-books in the last year
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dc56vs/library_use_of

How librarians can help widen access to research – live chat round-up

From access to data, resources to support, our panel's thoughts on how librarians are influencing the dissemination of research

Ann Rossiter, executive director of Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL)

Research discoverability is important. One of the main challenges for the library community is how we can collaborate to ensure the research that is increasingly being deposited in institutional repositories is discoverable to users. Not easy, but important.
Open access is a worry. We're going to have to pay twice, for subscriptions and for article processing charges. We are going to need the backing of the academic community to make sure that this doesn't happen.A real win would be to pay a more reasonable price for journals – prices are going up much faster than inflation.
Article Processing Charges are not a bad thing in themselves. There's lots we can do to track costs. I can understand academics' concerns about the relative costs of APCs being used to pressure researchers at the start of their careers to publish in less prestigious journals – I wouldn't want to see that happen. But at least if academics know a little bit more about the economics of this, they can make informed decisions about which publishers / journals are behaving reasonably (or not).

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Internet Library for Librarians

The site is collection of online links and sites available for the help of Libraries and Librarians with different sections of Ready Reference, librarianship, and Library Accessories

In the Ready Reference Section one will find links to Bibliographical resources, Almanacs, Fact Books, Biographies, Dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, Directores, Quotes, MAps, Travels ec

In the Librarianship Section you will find General Sites, Acqusitions, Collection Development, Cataloguing, Classification, Administration, Management, Archives, Preservation, Special Collection, Automation, Bibliographic Instruction, Literary Services, Circulation, Disability Services, ILL, Reference Support Staff, Governmnet Documents etc

In the Accessories section one can find Internet Tools for LIbrary Staff, Libraries on the Internet, Library Associations, Automates Systems, E-Mail Lists, Groups, Blogs, Opacs, Journals, Job Opportunities, Education, Library Software, Library Vendors etc.

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