Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with JISC Collections to save librarians time and increase access to the licences negotiated by JISC Collections for NESLi2, databases and archives. With new enhancements to 360 Resource Manager, its e-resource management (ERM) service, Serials Solutions seeks to continue to simplify the management of licences and their terms.
Through the collaboration with JISC Collections, licences will be added to 360 Resource Manager, marking the first time JISC Collections' licences have been included in an ERM service.
JISC Collections and Serials Solutions are employing the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format to facilitate the exchange of data between their respective systems. ONIX-PL is said to provide a standardised machine readable format for the expression of licence terms in a consistent manner and was specifically designed for use with library and ERM systems. JISC Collections is creating ONIX-PL expressions for all of its agreements and is making them available as part of its licence comparison tool, elcat.
Serials Solutions designed a specific licence template in 360 Resource Manager to make this data accessible and easy to use for tracking and populating licence terms of use in the ERM tool. This cooperative effort is seen to ensure that libraries will benefit from the population and updating of JISC Collections licence data in Serials Solutions ERM system. As the growth in the number of licences governing the use of e-resources continues to rise at a rapid pace, the value of this new service is seen to become increasingly important. As a result, a significant amount of time spent on data entry tasks will be eliminated and librarians can spend more time on valuable activities – and fully leverage the capabilities of their chosen technologies and respective workflows.
Serials Solutions continues to develop new features for 360 Resource Manager to meet the current e-resource management needs of libraries. Future enhancements to the service will help the more than 300 libraries using 360 Resource Manager, to effectively track and control their resources to streamline their workflows and optimise collections. The company is also developing Intota, a web-scale collection management solution that provides unified, intelligent workflows, as well as integrated assessment and built-in interoperability.
