UNDERSTANDING EJOURNAL TECHNOLOGY <http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/Meetings/Meeting.aspx?ID=331>
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP
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
OVERVIEW
This very popular 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, Consultant<http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/Meetings/Biography.aspx?PersonID=1138&Bio=Tutor> and Tracy Gardner, Consultant <http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/Meetings/Biography.aspx?PersonID=2143&Bio=Tutor>
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
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