Electronic Resources Management Tools

ERM tools listed below are grouped into categories of Commercial ERM Products, Glossaries, Database Resources (E-R Diagrams, Data Dictionaries, etc.), and Other Tools.

For links to books, articles, conference proceedings, studies, reports, and other literature or home pages of ERM and Usage Statistics initiatives, please see the Annotated Bibliography.

* This page is in the early stages of development and, at December 2004, contains only preliminary examples in each category . For more information about ERUS and to be advised when the ERM Tools page will be fully live, please Contact Us.

Commercial ERM Products

Verde (Ex Libris) - Stand alone ERM product, developed in cooperation with Harvard University and MIT. Prototype not yet available as of February 2005, but information available from:
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/verde.htm
Article summarizing January 2005 ALCTS session about this product can be found here: http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i3.pdf

Electronic Resource Management (Innovative Interfaces) - Stand Alone ERM product. Prototype implemented by multiple sites including Library of Congress and University of California-San Diego. Information available from:
http://www.iii.com/mill/digital.shtml#erm
Article summarizing January 2005 ALCTS session about this product can be found here: http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i3.pdf

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Glossaries

COUNTER Code of Practice 1.0 (December 2002) - Section 3: Definitions of terms used
http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html#section3

COUNTER *DRAFT* Code of Practice 2.0 (April 2004) - Definitions of terms used
http://www.projectcounter.org/cop2.html#r2_3

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Database Resources

E-R Diagrams

Digital Library Federation: Electronic Resource Management Initiative Report (August 2004) - Appendix C: Entity Relationship Diagram for Electronic Resource Management
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlfermi0408/dlfermi0408appc.htm

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Data Dictionaries

Digital Library Federation: Electronic Resource Management Initiative Report (August 2004) - Appendix D: Data Element Dictionary
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlfermi0408/dlfermi0408appd.htm

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Other Tools

Digital Library Federation: Electronic Resource Management Initiative Report (August 2004) - Appendix B: Electronic Resource Management Workflow Flowchart
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlfermi0408/dlfermi0408appb.htm

ARL E-Metrics: Data Collection Activities - E-metrics 2002-03 form.xls (excel file with two worksheets) (with data from approximately 25 ARL institutions)
http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/Data_Collect.htm

ARL E-Metrics: Webcast Training - Part I: Importance; Part II: Preparation (These are large PPT files but very instructive and worth downloading. You can allegedly view a copy of the webcast, but previous attempts have been unsuccessful. The URL below links to the main ARL E-Metrics page. The links to the Webcast Training PPTs are about half way down the page.)
http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/

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E-Metrics Instructional System (EMIS). A series of online training modules include: Introduction to e-metrics, selecting e-metrics, collecting e-metric data, analyzing e-metric data, and using & presenting your results. Materials available from: http://www.ii.fsu.edu/emis/index.cfm. See also workshop from January 2004: http://www.ii.fsu.edu/emis/emisBoston.cfm.

This workshop "offers continuing education for those seeking to understand how to evaluate the use of their onlinhe library services" and promise to be very interesting. This author plans to attend, and a report will be referenced here after the workshop. In the meantime, the extensive modules of materials are available online from: http://www.ii.fsu.edu/emis/index.cfm

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