UNDERSTANDING EJOURNAL TECHNOLOGY

MONDAY 22ND APRIL 2013, 76 PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON

DELEGATE COMMENTS 


'Very interesting and engaging - lot's of content was covered.' James
Phillpotts, OUP

 

'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

 

OVERVIEW 
This course will provide an insight into the technologies behind eJournal
delivery. Technology has removed the barriers between production, editorial,
marketing, sales, customer services and most importantly - the customers.
The course will be business-centric - clearly positioning technologies in
the context of the industry issues they aim to solve. Participants will
learn how technology is used throughout the delivery of eJournals from
publisher via library to the end-user. 

TUTORS 
Simon Inger
<http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/Meetings/Biography.aspx?PersonID=1138&Bio=Tu
tor> 
Tracy Gardner
<http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/Meetings/Biography.aspx?PersonID=2143&Bio=Tu
tor>  

PROGRAMME
. How users navigate to eJournal content: introducing the key starting
points for research - features and benefits of gateways, eJournal hosts,
publisher websites, aggregators, search engine-based gateways and library
gateways; 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
. How libraries manage user navigation: linking through URL and OpenURL, the
development and importance of Link Servers; the role of library web pages,
web scale discovery and journals management tools used by libraries
. Authentication: user authentication methodologies and their limitations:
IP address ranges, proxies and firewalls, Athens, digital certificates,
Shibboleth, OpenID and geolocation
. Usage statistics: COUNTER and SUSHI standards; how librarians use
statistics
. Current initiatives: introduction to major publishing industry initiatives
. Going mobile: a look at delivery of eJournals to mobile devices


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, 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.
 

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FORTHCOMING 2013 ALPSP COURSES

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Feb 

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Mar 

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Mar

 

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Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

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