This activity will include communicating with publishers and suppliers of electronic resources about the availability of bibliographic records corresponding to their collections, and information that might support regular data updates. Monitor new developments in standards and services. Electronic resources standards and services being developed internationally are very relevant in the Australian context. Adherence to international standards provides libraries with options and efficiencies in the way that data is sourced. The KEAG-ER will study work being done by other groups, such as the Library of Congress, Program for Cooperative Cataloguing, Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases who are working on similar standards issues.
Libraries are also able to avail themselves of new and developing services.
For example multi-publisher aggregator services are emerging with packages of titles supported by subject based access through sophisticated search engine services. The KEAG-ER will monitor trends in these services, in particular how such services compare with more traditional approaches to finding electronic resources such as indexes, abstracts and catalogues. Developing a service model. This will include identifying the roles and responsibilities of key participants in electronic resource access such as libraries, publishers, suppliers of bibliographic data and Kinetica. A key decision will be determining which services and activities can be supported centrally and which will be performed locally.