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Programme
• How users navigate to eJournal content:
introducing the key discovery points for research – features and benefits of
resource discovery, journal hosts, publisher websites, aggregators, search
engines and library RDS; why librarians purchase
access to starting points.
Identifying the major players involved in eJournal provision; where do users
choose to begin their research?; advances in
user navigation; mobile-ready
platforms
• How libraries manage e-resources: linking through URL and OpenURL, the
development and importance of Link Servers; the role of library web pages, web
scale discovery/resource discovery services (RDS) and journals management tools
used by libraries, including statistics
• Authentication: user authentication methodologies and their limitations: IP
address ranges, proxies, Athens, Shibboleth, OpenID and geolocation
• Planning end-to-end reader navigation that works: from discovery to
delivery
This course will commence at 09:30 (registration, with
tea/coffee, from 09:00) and end at approximately 17:00
By the end of the course delegates will be able to
Gain a
business-level grounding in eJournal delivery technologies, gain greater insight
into customers’ technical and business requirements and understand the role
technology plays in eJournal deployment and
discoverability.
Who should attend
Sales, marketing and customer service
staff of all levels, senior management who need a refresher course and new
technical hires from outside the industry. This course covers technologies that
are vital to the delivery of eJournals and therefore need to be widely
understood by all departments within the publishing business.
Delegate Comments
'I thought the course was excellent and packed with lots of interesting stuff that I hadn't really appreciated properly before.'
Alan Singleton, Editor of Learned Publishing
'Very Interesting Grounding on e-Journals'
Helen Sumner, RCNP
'Lots of content delivered in an accessible and entertaining way – perfect to anchor my level of understanding.'
Genny Early, Taylor & Francis
'Excellent coverage across many areas'
Kathy Law, Highwire Press
'The course enables you to make your knowledge of the e-journal technology more systematic and structured'
Marcin Kwiatkowski, Sage Publications Ltd