Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of ERM as a Service, an electronic resource management (ERM) tool powered by SwetsWise. The package is positioned as a solution combining select SwetsWise modules, designed to aid librarians with the management, evaluation and access of their electronic resources.
ERM as a Service seeks to provide librarians with a single, clear and comprehensive overview of their collection, showing what content they own; where their users can access it; and what licensing and rights options apply to it. Information professionals can also analyse the cost per use of their electronic resources – this is particularly expected to support the decision process during the renewal season and allow comparisons down to title level.
SwetsWise claims to contain the largest databank of publisher licence information available in the industry and automatically update and maintain the bibliographic details of thousands of publications, including price and status information. Having this information available at the touch of a button is projected to eliminate one of the key frustrations involved with purchasing an ERM solution - populating the system with data. This is expected to free the librarian to spend more time on the actual management and evaluation of resources.
The evaluation of acquired content is claimed to be made simple with SwetsWise’s ERM as a Service package, which supposedly combines COUNTER compliant usage statistics with subscription information into an easy-to-use environment. The customisable reporting possibilities included are seen to provide the librarian with the accurate and specific information needed to calculate the price per use of a subscription; to fully analyse their entire subscription spend; and to ultimately make better informed collection decisions in the future.
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