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    The rediscovered agents of change: librarians working with academics to close the information gap
    Robertson, S. ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ( 2000)
    There has been a merger of the Library with IT and multimedia education at the University of Melbourne, which has strengthened the already existing collaboration across these units. This paper, and the complementary paper by Sabina Robertson, will be discussing information provision to our customers in the light of this newly emerging entity.
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    Comparing interfaces for electronic journal delivery
    Arthur, Tony ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ( 2000)
    During 1998 and 1999 the University of Melbourne Library evaluated four interfaces for managing electronic journal subscriptions and access. These are OCLC’s ECO, SwetsNet, Ebsco Online and Blackwell’s Electronic Journal Navigator. A small working group of librarians comprised the core of the trial. A set of defined criteria for evaluating the interfaces was used. The paper will report on the experiences of the evaluation and the conclusions reached.
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    Beyond COUNTER: partnering with Thomson Scientific to develop Journal Use Reports
    SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ; HORWOOD, LYNNE ; ROBERTSON, SABINA ( 2007)
    Analysing journal usage is essential to collection managers. While vendors provide usage data in standardised formats, there has, until now, been no product which provides aggregated information. Now Scholarly Stats from MPS Technologies provides aggregated data with analysis reports, and Thomson Scientific is partnering with several academic libraries to develop Journal Use Reports. The Journal Use Reports product makes use of evaluation data from the Journal Citations Reports (JCR) and citation data from Web of Science, and includes data from vendors to assist collection managers understand how journals are being used by academic staff.
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    Journal use
    HORWOOD, LYNNE ; ROBERTSON, SABINA ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY ( 2006)
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