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The purpose of the session was to explore key issues about electronic resource license breaches from the perspective of a library, publisher, and information provider. The presenters discussed how each of their organizations manage license breaches. Libraries, publishers, and information providers need to work together to continue to develop effective methods of addressing and preventing license breaches while also being sensitive to privacy issues and the need to support library users' research needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Link resolvers, including Ex Libris' SFX, use OpenURL to provide library patrons with context-sensitive links, such as the ability to move quickly from a citation in an abstracting and indexing database to the full text. In SFX, information for determining the appropriate links is maintained in the knowledge base, which contains details about a library's electronic holdings and other information about electronic information re- sources. This article describes SFX functionality, what the service looks like from a patron's point of view, and how it can be of particular assistance to a serials librarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Surveys of faculty, students, and scientists in non-university settings over time show that journals and journal articles continue to be a valued resource. Scientists today read from a variety of sources including print journals, electronic journals, e-print servers, and full-text databases; the amounts for each vary with subject discipline and library collection decisions. Scientists expect the library to provide resources and electronic journals that are designed to meet the needs of their specific discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

You can't manage what you can't measure is the popular quote attributed to Peter Drucker. E-metrics is all about measuring for the purpose of managing the many aspects of e-content and e-collections. The notion of what to measure and how to manage depends on your perspective, however. There are a number of players in the online information business. For this talk we will focus on three of them: libraries, publishers, and aggregators. Each of these participants has somewhat different requirements for e-metrics. The subtitle of this presentation is Taking E-Metrics to the Next Level. We will start with the prerequisite look at why we need usage statistics. This will be followed by a discussion and examples of reports available today and a look at some of the challenges faced when e-metrics are provided from several sources. Next will be an overview of some of the standard efforts in process that could reduce or eliminate these challenges. Finally, we will look ahead to expanding uses of e-metrics and some additional challenges to be faced as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]