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EBSCO & Ex Libris – lettre ouverte d’Ex Libris aux bibliothèques

14 Mai 2013 Laisser un commentaire

An Open Letter to the Library Community

14 May 2013

As many of you know, on May 2nd, the Orbis Cascade Alliance Board of Directors sent a letter to EBSCO and Ex Libris requesting that they address concerns over the accessibility of EBSCO content via the Ex Libris Primo discovery service. The original letter as well as the respective responses from EBSCO and Ex Libris are available here – http://www.orbiscascade.org/index/ebsco-and-ex-libris.

As President and CEO of Ex Libris, I believe the issues raised by the Alliance are critical to the success of libraries in offering discovery services to their end-users, issues that are also highlighted in the April 16th Library Journal editorial entitled “Discovering Reciprocity” [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/opinion/editorial/discovering-reciprocity/]. Basically, there is an inherent conflict of interest when content providers attempt to control a library’s choice of discovery.
In their letter to the Alliance, EBSCO has made a number of claims:

  • EBSCOhost content should only be discovered through an API
  • The only such API is to the separately offered EDS Discovery Product
  • This API method is superior to index-based discovery
  • EBSCO does not have rights to enable content for index-based discovery (such as Primo).

We were surprised at these statements in the letter and have attached a point-by-point analysis that refutes these claims and others [also available on our Web site: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/EBSCORefusaltoAllowIndexinginPrimoCentralAnalysisMay2013.pdf] We believe the attached analysis reveals inaccuracies that deflect from the real issue: making EBSCO owned databases available through the library’s discovery service of choice.

Despite our disagreements with many of the EBSCO statements, let me state unequivocally: Ex Libris wishes to ensure that the content libraries license and subscribe to is exposed for discoverability and access as widely as possible. Hundreds of information providers agree and already make their content available through Primo. We are not asking EBSCO or other content providers for any content they do not have the rights to. We are simply requesting, on behalf of our mutual customers, that EBSCO make available the content which they DO have rights to offer WITHOUT requiring that a library purchase the EDS Discovery Product and use sub-standard API to access this content.

To that end, we invite EBSCO to meet with us at the American Library Association annual conference to focus on reaching an understanding on these important issues. We will further extend an invitation to representatives of the Alliance Board of Directors to join this meeting and assist in facilitating an agreement that directly addresses their concerns.

Finally, I would like to thank the Orbis Cascade Alliance and other libraries who are working to represent and protect the interests of all libraries on this important issue. We stand with you and continue to believe that together we can bring change such that EBSCO databases, whose rights EBSCO determines, are available to any EBSCO customer through the discovery service of choice.

Sincerely yours,

Matti Shem-Tov
President and CEO Ex Libris Group

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Les dépôts institutionnels intègrent Primo Central

28 janvier 2013 Laisser un commentaire

Communiqué d’Ex Libris :

Ex Libris Extends Its Support for Open Access by Launching Registration of Institutional Repositories for Primo Central

As part of the company’s strategy to increase the discoverability of open access material, this initiative helps researchers access diverse and hard-to-find scholarly content
Jerusalem, Israel—January 27, 2013. Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that it has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index.
Institutional repositories play a key role in the open access movement. They often contain articles that are as yet unpublished or are freely available in the repository as part of an institution’s green open access mandate. Once indexed in Primo Central, this content becomes widely discoverable to users in over 1300 institutions, thereby significantly increasing the usage and impact of an institution’s research output.
Institutional repositories contain a wealth of otherwise hard-to-find material such as research data, manuscripts, and course notes. This new initiative will benefit institutions, researchers, and users of scholarly material—who will enjoy timely and easy access to material they might not have found otherwise—and, as a result, will further the open access movement itself.
Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris chief strategy officer, explained: “This simple registration service enables institutions to easily offer their scholars increased visibility and speedier exposure for their research output, thus creating one more incentive for researchers to endorse open-access publication. With the growing interest in usage-based impact measurements and altmetrics to complement traditional methods of assessment, publication in institutional repositories presents an additional way to maximize the usage and impact of research.”
Registration of institutional repositories in Primo Central is another strand of the company’s open access strategy. Ex Libris endorses both green and gold open access methods and is involved in a number of initiatives to maximize the visibility of open access materials, including exposing the availability of open access articles that are published in subscription journals (hybrid journals).
Institutions who wish to add their repository to the Primo Central Index should register at http://dc02vg0047nr.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:8080/IRWizard/wizard.html.

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Webinar Alma (présentation et enregistrement)

26 octobre 2012 Laisser un commentaire

Ce 25 octobre 2012, Ex Libris a organisé un webinar consacré à Alma. La présentation ppt ainsi que l’enregistrement de la session webinar  sont disponibles pour nos membres dans l’ intranet de notre association.

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Pétition pour une plus grande mise à disposition des métadonnées

28 mars 2011 Laisser un commentaire

Une pétition initiée par l’IGeLU et ELUNA en faveur d’une plus grande mise à disposition des métadonnées par les éditeurs et agrégateurs.

Metadata petition

We, the undersigned, members of the International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) and Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA), earnestly request that all content providers to which we subscribe be included in the Primo Central Index. This request is in line with the third principle of the International Coalition of Library Consortia Statement on the Economic Crisis, which encourages online providers and aggregators to allow their metadata to be included in discovery services, such as Primo, on a non-exclusive basis.

As librarians, we have an imperative to ensure that content, in which we invest so heavily, is readily available to all of our users and that it is integrated into our information services and system infrastructure in such a way as to actively encourage and facilitate its use.

Therefore, we deeply regret that EBSCO withdrew its data from Primo Central which serves as a primary discovery platform for our users. We urge EBSCO to again join the many other information providers whose content is already indexed in Primo Central, and to allow EBSCO data to be harvested and indexed in as comprehensive form as possible, to facilitate optimal discovery for our users. By not contributing data, EBSCO significantly decreases the value of our investment in its content. EBSCO’s compliance in this regard will help ensure the continuation of our subscription to EBSCO content.

We call on all content providers to support the emerging consolidated indexes as a basis for Comprehensive Resource Discovery Platforms. We believe that this is not only in the interest of the libraries, enabling us to provide state of the art services, but also in the interest of the content providers, by making their content more visible to the end users.

La pétition peut être signée sur http://igelu.org/metadata-petition.

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