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66th IFLA Council and General Conference Jerusalem, Israel, 13-18 August 2000

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Cooperative Collection Development of Electronic

Information Resources in Turkish University Libraries

Yaşar TontaYaşar TontaHacettepe University

Department of Library Science 06532 Beytepe, [email protected]

http://yunus.hun.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html


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Definition Cooperation: “occurs when two or more libraries

work together to provide more developed services to their respective users”

Objective: To provide better, faster and cheaper services and to benefit from economics of scale

Applications: Cooperative collection development and cataloging, providing cooperative information services (electronic document delivery/reference services), etc.


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Why Should We Cooperate? I Information is a national asset “Lifeblood of development” Speedy access to relevant information is a

prerequisite of national and international competition

Therefore, creation, provision, organization, access to and use of information should be approached as a national issue


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Why Should We Cooperate? II• Cost of providing information services

• Price hikes• Shrinking budgets

• New approaches • Ownership=Access• Access=Ownership??

• New opportunities• Provision of information services through

networks • Ease of cooperation and coordination


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Overview: Turkish University Libraries

• Some 70 public and private universities• Limited Collections

• circa 5M monographs (total)• One third have fewer than 500 current periodical titles

• Limited budgets• circa 10M USD (1999, all public university libraries) • Average 200K USD• Expenditure per student varies• Proportion to total university budget: 0.7% (min. 0.2%, max.

3.8%)


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Duplication of Expensive Serials IJournal Name

Price (USD) Subscribing Libraries (1997)

Journal Name

Price (USD) Subscribing Libraries (1997)

Nuclear Physics 17.222 H, M, U J Adhesion 6.512 UBrain Research 14.919 H, M, U Eur J Pharm 6.431 H, UPhysics Letters AB 14.503 H, M, U J Alloys &

Compounds6.406 M, U

Physica ABCD 14.428 B, M, U Radiation Effects & Defects in

6.368 M, U

Combustion Sci & 12.457 M, U Hydrobiologia 6.328 H, M, UBiochim et Biophys Acta

10.528 B, H, M, U Gene 6.144 B, U

J Chromatography 9.414 H, M, U Anal Chim Acta 5.896 H, M, U

Surface Sci 9.274 B, M, U J Polymer Sci 5.613 B, H, M, UPhysical Rev ABCDE

9.101 B, H, M, U Mater Sci & Engin

5.445 M, U

J Electroanalytical Chem

8.154 H, U Mutation Research

5.378 H, UChem Physics Letters

7.818 B, H, M, U J Noncrystalline Research

5.341 H, M, U

J App Polymer Sci 7.482 H, M, U J Magnetism & Magnetic Materials

5.237 U

J Organometallic Chem

7.263 H, U J Radioanal & Nuclear Chem

5.213 M, U

Tetrahedron Letters 7.176 U Applied Catalysis

5.163 U

J Crystal Growth 7.081 H, M, U FEMS Microbiol Rev

5.144 H, M, U

Total 243.439


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Duplication of Expensive Serials II

Library# of Titles

Total Paid (USD)

ULAKBIM 30 243.000METU 21 186.000Hacettepe U. 18 154.000Bilkent U. 7 63.000

Total 646.000

Duplication RatesULAKBIM-METU 70%ULAKBIM-Hacettepe U. 60%ULAKBIM-Bilkent U. 23%


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Networked Information Sources

• Infrastructure• Bundling of technology and content• Cost of technology• Cost of content• Pricing networked information• Shared use of networked information

sources


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Networking Infrastructure of Turkish Universities

• Limited internal/external networking capabilities• Turkish Universities and Research Institutions Network

(TÜVAKA) was set up in 1986• Not based on Internet Protocol • Few universities connected to TÜVAKA• Had connections to BITNET and EARN• Capacity was limited• TR-NET set up to connect Turkey to the Internet• Connection to NSFNET: 12 April 1993• Demand for connection proliferated


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National Academic Network & Information Center (ULAKBIM)

• Set up in June 1996• Took over responsibilities of TÜVAKA, TR-NET

and Higher Education Council Documentation Center

• Mission• to set up a national academic network (ULAKNET) • to provide electronic information services to all

universities through the network


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Turkish National Academic Network (ULAKNET)

• Set up in 1997• Based on ATM technology with 34Mbps bandwidth

capacity • Universities connected to the backbone (Istanbul-

Ankara-Izmir triangle) with 64Kbps-4Mbps speeds• Access to NSFNET and TERENA • Limited international port capacity (over 10Mbps

excluding private lines; for academic use only)


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Networked Information Services for Universities

• ULAKBIM is also responsible • To develop a “vision” of electronic library to satisfy

information needs of academics• To set up the organizational structure to implement this

vision• To come up with a financial model to maintain it

• ULAKNET: a testbed to share electronic information sources among university libraries


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Library Consortia• Consortium: A corporate body with its own structure of

governance acting on behalf of all its member libraries• Objectives: Cooperative collection development, access

to electronic information sources, document delivery, etc.• Basic Functions:

• To share physical resources • To provide access to the Internet• To get access to networked information resources

• Examples: GALILEO, MORENet, JISC, ICOLC, etc.


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Initiatives to Set Up a Turkish Academic Library Consortium I

• ULAKBIM’s initiatives and first trials (IDEAL)• Conference on “Cooperation in the Use of

Electronic Information Resources” (14 November 1997, Ankara)

• Outcome:• To provide networked information services to all

university students and faculty through ULAKNET• To set up a task force to study the technical, financial

and organizational feasibility of establishing an academic library consortium


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Initiatives to Set Up a Turkish Academic Library Consortium II

• Initial costs: circa 10M USD • Operational costs: 3M USD p.a.• Draft Bye-Law of Consortium was discussed in

the Advisory Board Meeting (1998)• ULAKBIM’s VEDES (Hosting Databases and

Electronic Journals) initiative (1999) (WoS, SP databases)


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ANKOS: Anatolian University Libraries Consortium

• Set up in 1999 with no formal charter • 13 members incl. ULAKBIM• Some consortial agreements:

• AP’s IDEAL (ULAKBIM, Bilkent, Gazi, Hacettepe, METU)• Ebsco’s Academic Search Elite & Business Source Premier

(B, M, Dokuz Eylül, Koç, Sabancı)• AMS’s Mathscinet (M, B, Bosphorus, Çukurova, H, ITU, S)• ISI’s Web of Science


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Issues and Problems• Culture of working together• Commitment• Mutual understanding• Consensus building • Patience • Planning, organization, time management and

administrative skills (“common intelligence”) • Resources (human and monetary)• Accountability


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Cooperative Collection Development of Electronic Information Resources in

Turkish University Libraries

Yaşar TontaYaşar TontaHacettepe University

Department of Library Science 06532 Beytepe, [email protected]

http://yunus.hun.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html

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