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Electronic Resource Management
Overview
Manage Electronic Resources efficiently, leveraging Community Zone services, community collaborations and integration with providers.
2021 H2
Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings – Wiley
| What’s New |
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Impact |
| Upload Electronic Holdings from Wiley replaces the manual, multi-step workflow for managing Wiley holdings |
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Reduces manual work involved with activating and maintaining library holdings of Wiley electronic resources |
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Overlap Analysis Improvements
| What’s New |
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Impact |
| The Overlap Analysis Tool will be improved to include additional overlap comparing options and summary reporting |
- UX improvement for selecting content to be compared
- Summary reporting of overlap analysis report
- Additional comparing options
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Better collection development capabilities of libraries' electronic resources |
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DARA Recommendation for Standalone Portfolios
| What’s New |
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Impact |
| DARA will identify potential local standalone portfolios that can be grouped into a collection |
DARA will provide recommendations to review standalone portfolios that could potentially be grouped into a single collection |
Inventory management is easier when portfolios are managed within collections |
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Limit Electronic Resource Management Actions According to User Role’s Scope
Library
Independence
| What’s New |
Highlights |
Impact |
| Staff users will be permitted to perform electronic resource management actions based on the scope of their roles |
Various staff user's actions such as edit, update, delete, activate, deactivate etc., will be enabled/disabled based on the scope definition of the user role (specific library level or institution level (across libraries)).
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Better control over staff activity across libraries
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2022 H1
Overlap Analysis - Expand Tool to include Physical Titles
| What’s New |
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Impact |
| The Overlap Analysis Tool will be expanded to include print titles |
Upload a list of titles to find if titles exists in the inventory either as electronic or print resources |
Aid libraries with purchasing decisions |
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Electronic Resources Watcher
| What’s New |
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Impact |
| Staff operators can mark electronic resources to watch and be informed of any change to resources, without the need to actively monitor changes for these resources |
- Add yourself as a watcher of electronic resources
- Receive an email with a summary of electronic resource changes
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A time saver for the management of electronic resources |
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Electronic Titles Staff Search - Enhanced UX
Repository search
enhanced UX
| What’s New |
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Impact |
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The Electronic Titles Staff Search will be updated and redesigned for better usability, performance, productivity and overall user experience
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- A new “side by side” presentation will save users from having to access a designated page in order to review entity details
- Brief resource editing will allow users to edit specific information of the resource without leaving the search results
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Efficient work with electronic resources |
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2022 H2 -2023
Electronic Activation Task List Improvements
| What’s New |
Highlights |
Impact |
| The electronic activation workflow will be improved to better support institution specific activation workflows. |
- Better control of activation activity and status setup.
- Ability to add comments and notes to each activity.
- Ability to view the history of status changes.
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Better management of electronic resource activation according to a library’s specific workflow |
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Electronic Resource Collection and Portfolio Search - Enhanced UX
Repository search
enhanced UX
| What’s New |
Highlights |
Impact |
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The Electronic Resource Collection and Portfolio search results will be updated and redesigned for better usability, performance, productivity and overall user experience
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- A new “side by side” presentation will save users from having to access a designated page in order to review entity details
- Brief resource editing will allow users to edit specific information of the resources without leaving the search results
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Efficient work with electronic resources |
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