2025 EBSCO User Group

In partnership with GOBI, the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) launched an ambitious collaborative collection development project in 2021. Informed by the findings of three prior projects, this pilot sought to explore practical ways in which the thirteen members of the Confederation could engage in prospective collection development in support of a vision to treat the sum of our local collections as one great collection. This presentation will explain how the project was scoped and managed and will provide a summary of the outcomes of a two-year pilot purchasing frontlist print Brill monographs through GOBI. Attendees will journey with IPLC through zones of ambiguity and discover differences between coordinated and collaborative approaches to collection development. The presenters will share IPLC’s concept of strategic duplication; metrics for identifying the number of copies needed for local use, preservation, and lending; our process for consensus building and decision-making; and governance models for collaborative collection projects and programs. We will also share our ideas on evolving the project to include ebooks by leveraging GOBI solutions and expertise.

This session will cover discussion on current, expected and new options to Share (results, searches, alerts (Journal/search) and Cite information using available formats or various bibliographic managers / tools from Results List (non-personalized) and Dashboard (personalized) areas.

Despite steady enrollment, declining funding and inflationary pressure forced reductions to journals supporting Millersville University’s Nursing Program. Utilizing the CINAHL database on EBSCOhost as the user point of entry, a CustomLink was created to facilitate real-time user access to articles from specific non-renewed journals directly from article records during user search. Articles from lower use, now not available, journal titles are available for fee via the Article Galaxy Scholar (AGS) service in real-time. Utilizing user attributes conveyed to OpenAthens (OA), those attributes are transformed in OA and mapped for use by AGS to provide library scoped purchase opportunities by specific user, journal title, number of requests from the journal title, or article year of publication, to facilitate real-time access via Article Galaxy Scholar. Non-Nursing program users not eligible for this service are seamlessly re-routed and provided access to more traditional requesting mechanisms should they attempt to make use of the document delivery service intended for Nursing program students and faculty. This approach can be applied to other user / program combinations as curricular need or budget warrant and could influence resource renewals.