The Future of the Subscription Agent: The Agents Role in Providing Innovative E-Licensing Tools

Kelly Smith October 22nd, 2008

Proposed abstract:

Electronic resources are becoming dominant in the library community, and with e-subscriptions comes diverse electronic licensing needs. Various publishers currently require different e-licenses for every subscriber making the management and maintenance of licenses complicated and tedious. Tracking numerous licenses is time consuming; one small piece of missing information could negatively impact the rights of an organization?s subscribed content. As libraries face these challenges they are turning to their subscription agents for help. Our panel, a librarian and subscription agent, will examine these concerns and discuss what services an agent can provide in order to assist the librarian in effectively tracking, managing, maintaining, collecting, integrating and accessing important licensing data.

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2 Responses to “The Future of the Subscription Agent: The Agents Role in Providing Innovative E-Licensing Tools”

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  2. # Philip Wallason 10 Nov 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Would be good to add a publisher or even 2 to the panel since there are
    conflicting publisher opinions about whether agents help with e-resources
    or not.

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