Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open

by Jill Emery, Graham Stone, Peter McCracken

Growing Open Access (OA) options, Big Deal price pressure, fluid e-book purchasing models, and the need for ongoing it all adds up to a lot of moving parts. More than ever, you need a pragmatic framework for managing the many details of your online materials. TERMS―Techniques for Electronic Resource Management Systems―gave you one. Now its creators, incorporating five years of notes and input from many voices in the field, have updated their influential lifecycle model. In six sections you will circle through selection, procurement and licensing, implementation, troubleshooting, evaluation, and preservation and sustainability. Offering targeted guidance on both basic and complex issues, this book's topics include Whether a single team manages electronic resources or responsibility is spread across your library, this book will be your go-to ERM reference.

232 pages, Paperback

Published October 28, 2019

Reviews

[Jenny France · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was helpful in my library's search for an Electronic Resource Management system. It's recommendations are bases on the experience and responses of academic librarians, making it very relevant for our University.