Transcript Ei dian otsikkoa

Licensing in a European Perspective
- case Finnish National Consortium
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/
ELAG 2001, Prague
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen
Background
• Developing Finland as Information Society
– strategies by various ministries
– Education, Training and Research in the
information Society 1995-1999; 2000-2004
– The Information Society Programme 19951999)
– developing infrastructure (academic network, Funet)
– infrastructure is not enough - content is needed
– content is not enough – easy access is needed
Background ...
• Emphasis on research funding
– The Programme of Additional Funding for
Research 1997-1999
– research funding 3.1% of GNP year 2000
• Working group nominated by the
Ministry of Education
– project plan to develop National Electronic
Library published in 1997
FinELib organisation
• programme 1997-1999
– steering group
– Centre for Scientific Computing, CSC
– Helsinki University Library
• permanent activity at National Library
from the year 2000
– steering group
– National Electronic Library Services
• licensing + development = FinELib service
agency
• library statistics; library standards; EU
Cultivate; organising training for library network
Elements of Electronic Library
in Finland
• FinELib funding
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licensing and use
development
marketing and training
co-operation
• Additional funding at
other libraries
– subject gateways
– e-publishing
– development of learning
environments
• Additional funding at
National Library
– acquisition of a new library
system for academic
libraries in Finland
– archiving
– digitization
– Indentifiers
– metadata
Finnish higher education and
research environment
• 20 universities
• 29 polytechnics
• several public research institutes under
various ministries
• powerful data network FUNET with a
backbone speed of 2,5 Gbps
The National Electronic
Library Programme
• The aim of the programme is to improve the
prerequisites for education and research by
• increase the amount of information available in
electronic form
• improve the retrieval of information in the network
• provide the users with an interface to
heterogeneous information resources
Budget
• ca 30 mill. FIM 2001
– central funding ca 19 mill. FIM
• universities
• polytechnics
• public libraries
– own funding ca 11 mill. FIM
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universities
polytechnics
public libraries
research institutes
Organisation
Steering committee
FinELib
consortium
HUL
Consortia group
95 organizations
Science specific groups
7+ 1
Resources
• ca 6000 e-journals
• ca 90 reference databases
• dictionaries
– english, french, german, swedish
• law materials
– Finnish law, European Union law
• reference books
– OED
– Grove Dictionaries ( Art & Music)
Important tasks in developing
electronic library
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Administration
Selection of resources
Licensing
Training and marketing
Monitoring usage
Improving usability of electronic
resources
Tasks: Administration and
Selection of resources
• Administration
– financial management
– information about consortia
(IP´s, user figures, contact persons etc.)
– oracle database
– very much work needed !
• Selection of resources
– user needs/ user surveys (1998, 1999, 2000)
– working groups (7)
Tasks: Licensing
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license negotiations (conditions, price)
checking of conditions and price
making up the consortia (time consuming)
legal check
signature + proxy from consortia members
follow-up of international development
participation in international discussion
– ICOLC / eICOLC
– SPARC
– nordic co-operation
Tasks: Monitoring usage
Integration
• Monitoring usage
– collecting usage statistics over the
whole cnsortium
• Improving usability of electronic
resources
– cataloguing
– linking - CrossRef
– developing graphical user interface
Tasks: Training and marketing
• organising training for librarians
• marketing
– towards end users
– towards general public
– towards university administration
• support materials
– brochures
– posters
– abstracts about license conditions
Tools
• licensing policy + negotiation
guidelines
• license agreement abstracts
• user surveys
• administrative database
• price/consortia web-pages
• web-pages
• statistics web-page
Licensing and Use
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6000 e-journals
90 reference databases
dictionaries
law materials
24 licence agreements
8 million searches (2000)
1 million downloads (2000)
various ways of use
frequent use
Development
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portal
instruction packages
web-thesaurus
survey and guide to e-publishing
evaluation
Training and Marketing
Co-operation
- marketing strategy
- promotion materials
(web, brochures, posters, articles)
- conferences
(FinELib, Digital Library)
- national
* virtual university, user authentication
* universities, polytechnics, research
institutes, public libraries
- nordic
- ICOLC /ECOLC
The Finnish Model
• central funding
• central administration and preparation
• co-operation with consortia members in
preparation of activities
• consortia involved in decision making
• co-operation with national programmes
(virtual university, user authentication)
• international co-operation
FinELib - vision for the future
• National service
– linked to the the Virtual University as part
of it
– linked to the national citizen indentification
system
– access to various information resources
through the portal
– highly used, known and appreciated
service by researchers, teachers and
students
– central funding for all consortia members