** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
UK Serials Group would like to remind you of the London date for this
popular training course advertised earlier in the year.
Many places are already filled for this date, but a few still remain:
Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals
but were afraid to ask …
E-Journal Technical Update
Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, London Thursday 23
November
Many of us working directly with e-journals in libraries or as
intermediaries or publishers would like to feel more confident in our
understanding of the basic technology. Managing e-journals and making them
available to end-users is quite different from dealing with print, but many
of us have moved from one to the other, picking up expertise informally.
Even then, we probably all have gaps in our knowledge and understanding, and
the need to gain a proper balanced overview of the technical environment is
crucial if we are to do our jobs effectively.
To meet the needs of the groups identified above, the UK Serials Group is
continuing to offer its very successful practical one-day 'E-Journal
Technical Update' course. At the end of the day you will have a good
understanding of the underlying technicalities and feel more confident in
your day-to-day work. The course will be invaluable for anyone from a
non-technical background working with e-journals. Numbers are limited so
that individual advice can be given during the day – the atmosphere will be
friendly and supportive. The format will be a mix of taught and
demonstration/discussion sessions.
NB: Those completely new to dealing with journals should first attend the
UKSG’s ‘Serials Resource Management for the 21st Century: An Introduction’
course, which is run regularly in a variety of locations. This one-day
course covers all aspects of the serials industry and includes a
non-intensive introductory technical session. Dates for these courses for
2007 will be announced shortly.
Course Content
Scholarly Information Strategies (SIS) has developed the course exclusively
for UKSG. It will be presented by Simon Inger and/or James Culling, who
both have a wealth of technical and business experience concerning
electronic journals.
The course will be continually updated, but core content will include:
Overview of the Current E-Journal Environment
* Identifying the major companies involved in e-journal provision
* The differences between gateways, e-journal hosts, publisher web
sites, aggregators, portals, search engine-based gateways and library
gateways
* Corporate intranets
Access Control and User Authentication
* Definition of terms – authentication, authorisation, access control
* User authentication methodologies, including IP address ranges,
proxies, firewalls, Athens, Athens DA, Shibboleth and Identity 2.0
* How to organise access to content efficiently
Library Web Technologies
* A-Z e-journal lists
* The OpenURL and link resolvers (e.g. SFX)
* Z39.50, SRU/SRW and federated search engines
* Electronic Resource Management (ERM) tools
* Knowledge base management and other issues with these technologies
Other Topics
* Usage statistics – COUNTER and SUSHI standards
* CrossRef and the DOI
* Open Archives (including OAI-PMH) and Open Access
* Web 2.0 technologies – RSS, blogs, wikis, social bookmarking tools
Fee
UKSG members £150.00 + £26.25
VAT (total £176.25)
Non-members £205.00 + £35.88
VAT (total £240.88)
The fee includes refreshments and lunch.
Bookings
Please book via the UKSG web site http://www.uksg.org/events/231106.asp
A venue map will be sent with confirmation of booking.
For further information regarding booking please contact:
Karen Sadler, UKSG Administrator
Tel.: +44 (0)1865 744279 Fax: +44 (0)1865 742164 E-mail:
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