Open Trails
Back in November of 2011, the CUNY University Faculty Senate passed a Statement and Resolution on Open Access – a resolution which supported the establishment of a CUNY-wide open access institutional repository and which has been a guiding document in the development of that repository, from its collections policies to its mission and goals: CUNY […]
Useful Information regarding Fiscal Year End (FYE)
Are you new to acquisition’s Fiscal Year End process? At a loss for what to do in Aleph to make sure you’ve got everything set up correctly? Check out the checklist on the OLS Support Site: http://support.cunylibraries.org/systems/aleph/fiscal-year-end Also included on this page are related Aleph reports that you may want to check out.
The Current State of E-Resource Usage Data in Libraries
Here’s an informative and sobering assessment of employing COUNTER (via SUSHI or not) stats for accurately measuring cost per use at the platform/database/journal level… It’s not a pretty picture. Welker, J. (2012). Counting on COUNTER: The current state of e-resource usage data in libraries. Computers in Libraries, 32(9). Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov12/Welker–Counting-on-COUNTER.shtml. Thanks to Roland for […]
