International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Science and Technology 2002

Thursday morning, 7 March 2002

External factors: pricing models and adaptations in special libraries

9:00 hrs Costing and pricing models in science and technology libraries : Part 1, Cost histories and reactions (building 593, room R-010)

  • inflation: the history and the factors
  • changes in technology: online and enhancements
  • user desires and current services (NLP, visualizations, linking)
  • examples of new products/services
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

9:35 hrs Costing and pricing models in science and technology libraries : Part 2, Pricing models (building 593, room R-010)

  • differential pricing
  • local considerations for selection: who, how, what?
  • use-based pricing vs standard packages
  • unbundled and integrated media resource packages
  • the role of selection agents
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

10:15 hrs Coffee/tea

10:30 hrs Digital library and e-publishing developments in chemistry (building 593, room R-010)

  • historical background of chemical information
  • importance of secondary sources in chemistry (abstracting & indexing)
  • serial crisis and e-journals
  • information at the chemist's work bench
  • adapting a special library: from holdings to servers and services, from OPACs to Portals
  • support, training, and education (courses and multimedia)
Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

11:30 hrs Panel and questions from the audience (building 593, room R-010)

Rick Luce
Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

12:00 hrs Lunch

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Last updated 22 February 2002.