Electronic Resource Management: What, Why and How

The revolution of information and technology has been sometimes compared with the Gutenberg revolution, when the printing press harnessed a mass delivery system to the medium of the written word. It is a good parallel to draw for the impact of the internet, but it undervalues the other key feature of the interactive computer-its ability to adapt. It can adapt its behavior according to a person's input shows that it can be engaged with the knowledge process. The rapid advances in technology and knowledge revolution have made education a key to professional success; heightened the importance of research and innovation. In that way, e-resources have already been made available across populations without any discrimination. E-resources have brought new possibilities in to the classroom and research, at the same time they have placed more demands on teachers and researchers. The focus of new technology development has been directed on exploiting its resources to give access to the various departments of Higher Education; the equivalents of books, libraries, bookshops, broadcasting, films, television, etc, rather than on the technologies for individual creativity like pens, pencils, and notebooks.

The present book will provide a base to librarians, information officers, technologists, students and researchers to find ideas enabling them to develop multinational and cross-institutional e-resource management system, as well as to enhance their knowledge, expertise, and abilities with regard to utilization of E-resources. The chapters presented are introduction to E-Resources, Managing E-Resources With Tools and Technologies, E-Resource Management Systems, Library Web Content Management, Networking Technologies for E-Resources, E-Archive and Digital Preservation, Retrieval of Information from E-Resources, Cataloguing of E-Resources, CrossRef and Resource Identification in Electronic Environment, E-Resources and Licensing, Open Access and E-resources, and Digital Information, the Public Domain and Digital Copyright. It gives a reference framework for describing the electronic and web resources on the capacity building if libraries and information centers as well as the users. This work will function as underpinnings to the concerned aspects and setting up and utilization of e-resources in libraries and information centers.