➧Supporting acquisition and management of licensed e-resources

➧May be integrated into other library system modules or may be a standalone system

➧May have a public interface, either separate or integrated into the OPAC

➧Providing descriptions of resources at the package (database) level and relate package contents (e.g. e-journals) to the package record       Click here and Join- What's New on LIS Cafe Website

➧Encoding and perhaps publicly displaying licensed rights such as e-reserves, course packs, and interlibrary loan

➧Tracking electronic resources from point of order through licensing and final access

➧Providing information about the data providers, consortial arrangements, access platform

➧Providing contact information for all content providers

➧Logging problems with resources and providers

➧Providing customizable e-mail alerting systems (e.g. notices to managers when actions are expected or required)

➧Linking license documents to resource records

➧Supports retrieval of SUSHI ( Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) usage statistics

Source: IGNOU

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