Hi everyone,

On behalf of UKSG, I just wanted to let you know about new and updated  
chapters in The E-Resources Management Handbook. There is now a total  
of 27 chapters, all of which provide free overviews of key topics in e- 
resource provision. New chapters cover
* cancellation workflows
* working with vendors
* surviving as a new serialist
* peer review
* the Semantic Web
* COUNTER
The new and updated chapters can be accessed at: http://uksg.metapress.com/link.asp?id=6tuu9n7wfl18

The full announcement is below or at http://www.uksg.org/news/ermhmar10
Please do let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for  
future topics.
All the best,

Charlie.
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Charlie Rapple, UKSG Marketing Officer
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Tel: +44 1865 875896
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8 March 2010: Free, practical guidance for e-resource practitioners  
from UKSG
/The E-Resources Management Handbook: eight new and updated chapters/
UKSG, the organization that connects the information community, has  
today announced the latest chapters to be added to The E-Resources  
Management Handbook, its open access guide to the practical aspects of  
working with e-resources. The Handbook comprises 27 chapters on topics  
such as licensing, archiving, marketing and ERM systems; recent  
chapters include:

• Peer review, by Fytton Rowland of Loughborough University, which  
outlines the methodology of peer review of scholarly publications,  
with some coverage of its history and purposes
• A beginner's guide to working with vendors, by Joseph Thomas of East  
Carolina University, which considers the varieties of library–vendor  
relationships, issues with communication, product knowledge, licensing  
and negotiating, ongoing service responsibilities and ethics
• E-resource management and the Semantic Web, by George Macgregor of  
Liverpool John Moores University, which provides an introduction to  
some essential Semantic Web concepts and the resource description  
framework (RDF) in the context of e-resource discovery
• How to survive as a new serialist, by Glenda Griffin of Sam Houston  
State University, which provides information on organizations,  
associations, online and print resources, discussion lists and  
training events, and practical suggestions on getting started
• COUNTER: current developments and future plans, by Peter Shepherd of  
COUNTER, which reports on the latest Codes of Practice to govern the  
recording and exchange of online usage data
• Cancellation workflow, by Trina Holloway of Georgia State  
University, which posits practical procedures for reviewing library  
collections and selecting titles for cancellation.
The Griffin, Thomas and Holloway chapters were originally published by  
UKSG’s North American counterpart NASIG, as “NASIGuides”, and reflect  
the ongoing collaboration between the two organizations.

In addition to the new chapters, and in line with the Handbook’s  
status as a “living” e-book, two further chapters have been reviewed  
and updated:

• New resource discovery mechanisms, by consultant Jenny Walker,  
reviews changes since the chapter was initially published in 2006, a  
period in which resource discovery service development has focused on  
the increasingly web-literate end-user
• Usage statistics and online behaviour, by Angela Conyers of  
Birmingham City University, looks at the reasons for collecting usage  
statistics at both local and national level and identifies the various  
sources available.
Topics for further new chapters and updates in 2010 include  
repositories, open access, consortia and intermediaries. Learn more,  
or sign up for new chapter alerts at http://www.uksg.org/serials#handbook 
. We also welcome your suggestions for future chapter topics – please  
contact [log in to unmask] UKSG would like thank all its volunteer  
authors and interviewees for sharing their expertise.

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