NEW FOR 2008!

To meet the needs of librarians involved in the acquisition of electronic resources, UK Serials Group is offering a practical one-day Licensing and Negotiation Skills course.

Course summary

The UKSG is able to call on the extensive experience of its members in sourcing expert speakers from the various sectors of the serials industry to present a practical overview of all aspects of serials management.

Course summary

Many of us working directly with e-journals in libraries or as intermediaries or publishers would like to feel more confident in our understanding of the basic technology.  Managing

Summary

Mandating the deposit of scholarly journal articles within Open Access repositories is gathering pace.  Funding bodies and individual academic institutions around the world are increasingly coming forward with their rationale and policy statements.  What does this mean for the various players in the scholarly communication chain and how are they responding to this requirement?

Course summary

This one-day training seminar, one of a series organised by UKSG and Project COUNTER, will give a practical hands-on introduction to accessing, collating, utilising, presenting, and marketing e-resource usage statistics, both COUNTER-compliant and otherwise.  Experts from different sectors will provide their perspectives on the role and importance of usage statistics.  Future developments in the provision and exploitation of use measurement statistics will also be covered.

Important! This course has been cancelled!

Course summary

A one-day seminar for those interested in the day-to-day handling of e-resources in Further Education Colleges

Whilst there are similarities between the academic demands placed on both Higher Education and Further Education libraries with regard to providing users with appropriate collections of learning materials, the constraints and challenges in applying this to
e-resource provision are quite different.

Conference Dates and Venue

The 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place from 30 March - 1 April 2009 at the Riviera International Conference Centre, a superb purpose-built conference and exhibition facility situated in Torquay overlooking Torbay - without doubt one of the loveliest natural settings in Europe.

Conference Dates and Venue

The 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place from 30 March - 1 April 2009 at the Riviera International Conference Centre, a superb purpose-built conference and exhibition facility situated in Torquay overlooking Torbay - without doubt one of the loveliest natural settings in Europe.

Conference Dates and Venue

The 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place from 30 March - 1 April 2009 at the Riviera International Conference Centre, a superb purpose-built conference and exhibition facility situated in Torquay overlooking Torbay - without doubt one of the loveliest natural settings in Europe.

Course summary

Many of us working directly with e-resources in libraries would like to feel more confident in our understanding of the related technology.  Managing e-resources and making them available to end-users is quite different from dealing with print products, but many of us have moved from one to the other, picking up expertise informally.  As a result we probably all have gaps in our knowledge and understanding, and the need to gain a proper balanced overview of the technical environment is crucial if we are to do our jobs effectively.