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JIBS – 20 years and counting ...

JIBS User Group “Back to the Future and Into the Cloud”

meeting February 2012

Sue Cumberpatch, University of York

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JIBS Desert Island Discs

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“We know where we’re going, we know where we’re from …”

Exodus (Bob Marley)

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BIDS User Group ...

• Launched in 1991 and sponsored by the JISC, the BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services) service provided online access to the ISI citation indexes for the UK higher education and research community

• It was the first large scale, national, end-user service of its kind anywhere in the world

• The BIDS User Group was formed soon after– Each institution which had a BIDS

subscription had a nominated site representative

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“What’s it all about…Alfi”?

(Cilla Black – … with slight amendment)

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... JIBS User Group

• When MIMAS and EDINA were established, the group widened its remit and changed its name in 1997 to the JIBS (JISC-assisted Information and Bibliographic Services) User Group

• For the past ten or more years, has represented any internet-based information resource available under licence to the further and higher education and research communities in the UK - whether those resources are licensed or purchased via JISC, Eduserv or independently

– Name changed in 2008 to Joint Internet-Based Services User Group

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“Tryin’ to keep the customer satisfied …”

(Simon & Garfunkel)

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Early days

• BIDS UG carried out research on user-computer interaction aspects of BIDS and networked CDROM databases

• Championed end-user representation– “I think the user group can be proud of itself that …

we have succeeded in bullying, shaming and encouraging a qualitative and quantitative revolution in end user access to primary bibliographic data.” David Zeitlyn, BIDS UG chair, from BIDS User Group annual report 1996

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“Let it grow …”

(Eric Clapton)

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Expansion …and more acronyms Can you translate them?

• From1999 annual report (chair: Betsy Anagnostelis)– WoS still the main focus -> WoSEC– Subject groups created : Arts and Humanities

(HUMBUL); Social Sciences (SOSIG); Biomedical (BIOME); Engineering and Physical Sciences (EEVL)

– Representation on JISC services: ATHENS; RDNC; UK Mirror Service

– Working with other groups JUGL; RESCOLINC; SCONUL; UKOLN; UKOLUG

– Inclusion of FE in deals and thus in JIBS

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“Getting to know you …”

(From The King and I, Rogers & Hammerstein)

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20 years of BIDS/JIBS events - i1998 First open event: Resource Integration: Moving forward

to the Distributed National Electronic Resource

2001 Events on Linkage services; and E-books

2002 Non bibliographic resource data (inc geospatial resources, multimedia and images)

2003 Digital Libraries and VLEs; and OpenURLs

2004 Reading list software; and Walk-in users

2005 Battle of the Giants: a comparison of Web of Knowledge, Scopus and Google Scholar

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20 years of BIDS/JIBS events - ii2006 Federated search tools

2007 Discovering ePrints

2009 A&I: RIP?

2010 Where next for resource licensing? ; and Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review

2011 Librarians in the brave new world of research evaluation

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“It’s only words …”

(Bee Gees)

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Wordcloud of terms from early events/meetings

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Wordcloud of terms from recent events/meetings

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“Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes …”

(Changes – David Bowie)

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What has stayed the same?

• User focus• Independent representation• Constantly monitoring and moving ahead

of the developments• Cheap membership rate!

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What has changed?

• JIBS has become leaner …• More and more flexible in striving for “the

perfect interface”• Focus on wider user community and

political/economic drivers, rather than on the resources themselves– e.g. The annual JIBS prize for a student

dissertation on e-resource issues

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What should we do in the future?

• ... Over to you for suggestions– Write your ideas for future JIBS events and activities

on a Post It note. Also for different ways JIBS could work

• We shall gather these and summarise them, and will include them in the report from this event

• We shall also feed them into our plans

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“And now the end is near …let’s do it Your Way”

(My Way – Frank Sinatra – with slight amendment)

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What luxury item would JIBS take to the island?