EBS problems in a university library. Electronic library systems. Access to the electronic database "University Library Online"
Contains only modern and relevant electronic versions of educational and scientific materials that comply with the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education and Secondary Professional Education. The library is regularly updated with new publications. Books are posted on the site before their printed counterparts are released.
Portal of business and educational literature IPRbooks
EBS IPRbooks is the most important resource for obtaining quality education, providing access to educational and scientific publications necessary for teaching and organizing the educational process in our educational institution.The EBS resource IPRbooks combines the latest information technologies and educational licensed literature intended for different areas of study, with the help of which you can gain the necessary knowledge, prepare for seminars, tests and exams, and complete the necessary work and projects. IPRbooks will be useful for EBS teachers when drawing up curricula and RAPs, preparing and conducting classes, and obtaining information about new publications of colleagues.
EBS IPRbooks contains more than 127,000 publications, of which more than 40,000 are educational and scientific publications in various disciplines, about 700 titles of Russian and foreign journals, more than 2,000 audio publications. The content of the EBS IPRbooks is represented by publications of more than 700 federal, regional, university publishing houses, research institutes, leading teams of authors, the content of which meets the requirements of federal educational standards of higher, secondary vocational, and additional vocational education, and is updated daily with new relevant publications. EBS IPRbooks contains many exclusive publications that are not presented in other resources, including publishing houses of the IPRmedia group of companies: University Education, Vocational Education, IP Er Media.
EBS "RUKONT" is a unique inter-industry database of full-text electronicdocuments, which includes digital content, both leading and smallregional publishing houses of Russia.The diversity and accessibility of content makes it possible to fully engage in scientific research.research work, and daily updating of the electronic library allowsusers to keep up to date with up-to-date information.EBS "RUKONT" has state registration as an electronic media and databasedata. Publications are included in the resource on the basis of licensing agreements withauthors and copyright holders.Users of “SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY (IUBiP)” are given the opportunityuse the following periodic electronic resources of EBS “RUKONT”:
- Electronic magazine "Banking Technologies"
- Electronic journal "Bulletin of Economic Justice"
- Electronic journal “State and Law”
- Electronic magazine "Law"
- Electronic journal “World Economy and International Relations”
- Electronic magazine "Logistics"
- Electronic magazine “Practical Marketing”
- Electronic journal "Psychological Journal"
- Electronic journal “Modern problems of service and tourism”
- Electronic journal "Criminal Law"
Polpred.com Media Review
The archive of important publications is collected manually. Database with categories: 26 industries / 600 sources / 8 federal districts of the Russian Federation / 235 countries and territories / main materials / articles and interviews of 3000 top officials. Every day there are a thousand news, full text in Russian, a million of the best stories from news agencies and the business press over 15 years. Search with settings. Export hundreds of articles to Word in one click. Internet services by industry and country. Access to Polpred.com is open from all library computers and the internal network. It is possible for users to register themselves for access from home or from any device. Website.Electronic library system is an organized collection of electronic documents, including publications used for information support of the educational and research process in higher educational institutions, and providing the ability to access them via the Internet.
- EBS IQlib merged with EBS "University Library Online". This step to consolidate Russian library systems allows clients to obtain the maximum amount of electronic content from a “one window” without spending additional resources and effort. Readers have the opportunity to use the resources and services of both platforms on the portal Electronic library system "University Library Online".
The combined content of the ELS is educational material on a wide range of educational programs and areas of training (in all branches of knowledge) and fully complies with the requirements of the third generation federal state educational standards (FSES HPE) for libraries regarding the formation of collections of basic and additional literature.
EBS performs the following functions: full-text search, working with the catalogue, unlimited page-by-page viewing of publications, copying or printing text, creating bookmarks, comments, etc.
Access period: from November 15, 2015 to November 15, 2019.
Access conditions: from the MSTU local network, as well as remote access via the Internet (after registering on the EBS website from the university PC).
In February, the EBS mobile application “University Library Online” was launched, which provides access to all subscription content. The application allows you to fully use the ELS from mobile devices and download individual books as files to your device or PC. Books can be read in complete comfort: downloading from a PC and reading from a smartphone. The application retains important functions of the site - personal account, bookmarks, my library, etc. For your convenience of working with content, the functionality of bookmarks and quotes is provided. The application is available for any device running Android (from version 4.1) and for iPad with iOS (from version 8.0).
http://biblioclub.ru/
User manual (1793 Kb) - The electronic library system "IPRbooks" is the most important resource for obtaining quality education, providing access to educational and scientific publications necessary for teaching and organizing the educational process in our educational institution.
Using the EBS IPR BOOKS allows the student to prepare for seminars, tests and exams, and complete the necessary work and projects. The resource will be useful for teachers when drawing up curricula and RAPs, preparing and conducting classes, and obtaining information about new publications of colleagues.
You can work with the IPR BOOKS EBS 24/7 remotely from mobile devices (download the IPRbooks Mobile Reader application on the App Store or Play Market, the IPRbooks WV-Reader application for the visually impaired on the App Store or Play Market), as well as via the Internet (using logins issued by the library and passwords).
The EBS resource IPRbooks combines the latest information technologies and educational licensed literature intended for different areas of study, with the help of which you can gain the necessary knowledge, prepare for seminars, tests and exams, and complete the necessary work and projects.
EBS IPRbooks contains more than 118,000 publications, of which more than 36,000 are educational and scientific publications in various disciplines, about 600 titles of Russian and foreign journals, more than 2,000 audio publications. The content of the EBS IPRbooks is represented by publications of more than 600 federal, regional, university publishing houses, research institutes, leading teams of authors, the content of which meets the requirements of federal educational standards of higher, secondary vocational, and additional vocational education, and is updated daily with new relevant publications. EBS IPRbooks contains many exclusive publications that are not presented in other resources, including publishing houses of the IPRmedia group of companies: University Education, Vocational Education, IP Er Media.Access period from April 20, 2016 to April 20, 2020. For remote access, you need to register on the website from a university PC or obtain a login and password in the room of electronic and information resources (227 V).
- The electronic library system "Student Consultant" is a multidisciplinary educational resource that provides access to educational and scientific literature in all fields of knowledge from leading Russian publishing houses. ELS meets all the requirements for a modern electronic library system and includes about 30,000 publications, forming more than 70 sets of educational literature for 55 enlarged groups of specialties (UGS) with constant updating and addition of content. The content of the “Library for Higher Professional Education” kits is open to readers of MSTU and its branches.
Access is provided:
Access period: from April 20, 2015 to April 20, 2020
http://www.studentlibrary.ru/ - The electronic library system "Troitsky Bridge" is a new media project of the publishing house "Troitsky Most". Intended for libraries of educational institutions and created to provide students with textbooks and teaching aids in the field of special (profile) disciplines. Currently, the EBS contains electronic publications in the following areas: “Food Technologies”, “Public Catering” and “Hospitality”.
Access is provided if Adobe Flash Player is installed and browsers Internet Explorer 6 and higher, Safari, Firefox, Opera:
from the university PC (via the external IP address of MSTU);
from any PC (remote access) via the Internet (when registering on the website from a university PC).
EBS performs the functions of full-text search, work with the catalogue, unlimited page-by-page viewing of publications with the ability to copy (print) up to 10% of the text of the total volume of the document.
Access period from April 1, 2015 to April 1, 2020.
http://www.trmost.com/tm-main.shtml?lib
EBS "Trinity Bridge" (10692 Kb) - The electronic library system "Lan Publishing House" is a resource that includes electronic versions of books from the Lan publishing house and collections of full-text files from other publishing houses that produce scientific and educational literature for higher education, as well as electronic versions of periodicals on the natural, technical and humanities.
Thematic packages of books and magazines are available for university readers, which are highlighted with a dark blue icon. In order to protect copyright when working with electronic publications, there are restrictions on copying and printing documents - up to 10% of the text from one publication.
http://e.lanbook.com/
Access period from September 1, 2013 to October 1, 2020
The University Library presents to the attention of users a virtual exhibition of the ELS "Publishing House "Lan".
http://e.lanbook.com
User manual (3705 Kb)
Mobile application testing guide (140 KB) - The electronic library system "BOOK.ru" is a licensed library that contains educational and scientific publications from teachers of leading universities in Russia. Meets the requirements of GOST 7.0.96-2016. The electronic library collection is completed on the basis of the new Federal State Educational Standards for Higher Education and Secondary Professional Education. The library is regularly updated with new publications. Books are posted on the site before their printed counterparts are released. Reading the electronic version of books is available in page-by-page mode; it is possible to quote up to 10% of the book’s content, as well as create notes based on several publications. Access is designed for an unlimited number of readers from anywhere in the world via the Internet. Murmansk State Technical University has again opened access to the EBS "BOOK.ru" from 01.03.2019 to 30.04.2019.
Access to the database is carried out from any PC via the Internet, after registration in the Electronic Library System "BOOK.ru" from MSTU computers connected to the network.
INFORMATION FOR THE READER:
1. To start working in the system, each reader must register. After registration, your group (name of educational institution) will be displayed in the upper right corner, and books will become available.
2. If the group is not displayed, you must enter the access code 01BA-0000-0006-8993 in the “Personal Account” in the “Access by Code” section.
https://www.book.ru/ - The electronic library system "ibooks.ru" is a wide range of the most modern educational and scientific literature from leading Russian publishing houses for higher education. The ELS is constantly updated with electronic versions of publications that have just come out of print. Most books are certified by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, educational and methodological associations and scientific and methodological councils in various fields of knowledge. 130 e-books are available for MSTU readers. Work with the database is carried out from any PC via the Internet, subject to registration with the university PC. Use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
Access to the Electronic Library System ibooks.ru is open from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
http://ibooks.ru/
User manual (1327 Kb)
List of available e-books (49 Kb) - Electronic library system "BiblioRossika" is a modern electronic library system, which is a Russian-language project of one of the leading American publishing houses Academic Studies Press (Boston, USA). The resource meets all the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Professional Education (order No. 1953 of September 5, 2011) and is a constantly updated portal of modern academic literature in the humanities. Designed for students, teachers and researchers. The catalog section “Technical Sciences” is open for MSTU readers. Access is open from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015 and involves both local and remote access to the resource. To work online, you need to register on the website http://www.bibliorossica.com/ from the university PC.
In addition to the full texts of documents, copying, downloading and printing of book pages (15% of the total document volume) are available.
http://www.bibliorossica.com
Electronic library system "BiblioRossika" (5462 Kb) Electronic library system "
The national digital resource "Rukont" is an interdisciplinary scientific library based on the information technology "CONTEXTUM" (allows you to automatically create license agreements for digital resources with copyright holders). Digital content of various kinds is posted here: textbooks, study guides in all fields of knowledge, monographs, lecture notes, periodicals and individual articles, as well as audio, video, multimedia, and other materials. The national digital resource "RUKONT" has state registration as an electronic media and database, meets the requirements of Order No. 1953 of September 5, 2011 of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science. Duration of access to the National digital resource "Rukont" from December 10, 2013 to December 9, 2014 to the following collections: "Base Array"; "Hot Line" (publishing house collection).
Access is provided from any computer from anywhere on the Internet using LOGIN: mstureader, PASSWORD: 123456.
It is possible to read and completely download the file to the user’s storage device.
For any questions, please contact the electronic and information resources room of the MSTU library (room 227-B).
http://www.rucont.ru/
Instructions for searching in EBS "Rukont" (2936 Kb)
National digital resource "Rukont" (8693 Kb)- Electronic library system "Urayt" is a resource that includes electronic versions of books from the publishing house "Urayt". The publishing house specializes in publishing educational literature for higher and secondary specialized educational institutions according to new educational standards. Today, the assortment of "Urayt" includes more than 2,000 graded textbooks in socio-economic, humanitarian, legal, natural science and technical areas. The authors of the textbooks are teachers from leading Russian universities.
University users have access to the "TEST" catalogue. It is a random selection of several textbooks on various topics. Connection occurs via external static IP addresses. In the catalog, books are available for reading in full text mode (while all others from the general catalog are available in 10 percent of the text). The database can be accessed from any PC via the Internet. Test access is valid from 02/06/2017 to 02/19/2017User instructions for EBS (3705 Kb)
Instructions for citing in EBS (402 Kb) - The Intermedia electronic library system is a proprietary development of the Intermedia publishing house, registered as a media outlet and as a database that allows access to books via the Internet. Test access granted from 10.20.15 to 12.10.15
http://www.intermedia-publishing.ru/mgr/allowed/ EBS "BiblioTech"
The BiblioTech system, created by a group of Russian book publishers, is today the leader in the emerging Russian e-book market. The company's strategic partners are: Russian State Library. V.I. Lenin and Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. Test access for university readers includes electronic versions of books (educational, reference, scientific literature) in all fields of knowledge from leading Russian publishing houses, such as: "Association of Construction Universities" (ACV), "BINOM. Knowledge Laboratory", "Dashkov and K" , "DMK-press", "Mining Book", "Intuit.ru", "Zertsalo", KDU, MISiS, MPEI, Moscow State University and many others (more than 6000 titles of electronic versions of books). Registration is available from any computer via the Internet at any time convenient for you. Test access to the electronic library "BiblioTech" is open from October 28, 2013 – May 1, 2014
https://mstuedu.bibliotech.ru/
Instructions for registration in the EBS "BiblioTech" (641 Kb)Electronic library system "KnigaFond"
The electronic library system "KnigaFond" presents almost all the literature necessary for studying in most higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation. The extensive database of the KnigaFond electronic database will be useful for both teachers and students. All literature and other sources are published in strict accordance with copyright laws. The electronic library system contains the maximum number of book publications. Their list includes lectures, educational materials, monographs, and archival documents. Convenient systematization of literature by categories and areas of scientific knowledge allows you to quickly find the book you need. This is facilitated by a convenient site navigation system, which offers many additional functions for quick search.
Test access to the KnigaFond system is open from 06 to 04 November 2014.
Login: testid1523
Password: id1523
http://www.knigafund.ru/EBS znanium.com publishing house "INFRA-M"
EBS ZNANIUM.COM is an independent development of the INFRA-M Scientific Publishing Center and meets all the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher professional education (FSES HPE) of the new generation.
The EBS ZNANIUM.COM fund is formed taking into account all changes in educational standards and includes textbooks, teaching aids, teaching materials, monographs, abstracts, dissertations, encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books, legislative and regulatory documents, and special periodicals.
Access is open from April 25 to June 16, 2014 from the university-wide network of MSTU without authorization. After individual registration from the university PC, the user gets access to electronic publications of the EBS ZNANIUM.COM from anywhere in the world via the Internet.
For any questions, please contact the electronic and information resources room of the MSTU library (room 227-B).
http://www.znanium.com
User instructions (2287 Kb)EBS NUST "MISiS"
The electronic library system of the National Research Technological University "MISiS" is:
– Database of diploma projects and works completed by NUST MISIS students
– Abstracts of dissertations defended by the University Councils
– More than 50 textbooks on metallurgical and materials science disciplines
– Periodicals News of universities “Materials of electronic technology”, “Ferrous metallurgy”
– Educational and methodological publications "MISiS" (1200 full-text documents).
Access to the database from any PC connected to the Internet. Connection to the EBS is carried out after filling out the electronic registration form on the website.
This is a library that is always nearby, all knowledge at one touch!
The INFRA-M Scientific Publishing Center presents the Electronic Library System (ELS) Znanium.com - a single electronic space for education and science in universities and libraries, for teachers and students throughout Russia and abroad.
EBS is a comfortable 24-hour on-line access to a wide range of scientific and educational literature.
Znanium fully complies with all regulatory requirements for EBS.
More than 15,000 works in the main collection, as well as over 2,000 works in additional collections from leading Russian publishers with daily additions.
Only the most necessary services and functions for everyday educational and scientific activities that do not require much time to master:
- electronic bookmarks;
- reader's virtual bookshelf;
- comfortable navigation in the book and search using various parameters;
- copy service;
- compilation of recommended literature lists by teachers for students of their university;
- simple administration and a wide range of statistics for libraries of any level.
Employees and students of the Russian University of Cooperation have access to the EBS "iBooks"
To get a personal account for remote access to IBooks: register yourself from the university premises, or obtain a login and password from the university library.
EBS "iBooks" provides ample opportunities for selecting books both by thematic navigator and through search and filter tools.
The IBooks electronic library system is the best textbooks and teaching aids for higher education.
The electronic library system "Urayt" is a virtual reading room of textbooks and teaching aids from authors from leading universities in Russia in the following areas: business and economics; humanities, social and natural sciences; health and medicine; computers and information science; jurisprudence; pedagogy; Agriculture; applied sciences and technology. Today, the publishing house's portfolio includes more than 8,000 titles and is regularly updated.
Domestic newspapers and magazines
The scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU is the largest Russian information portal containing abstracts and full texts of more than 13 million scientific articles and publications. Electronic versions of more than 2,000 Russian scientific and technical journals are available on the eLIBRARY.RU platform, including more than 1,000 open access journals. Registration of a user in the Scientific Electronic Library is a necessary condition for gaining access to the full texts of publications posted on the eLIBRARY.RU platform, regardless of whether they are in the public domain or distributed by subscription. Registered users also have the opportunity to create personal collections of magazines and articles, save the history of search queries, customize the navigator panel, etc. |
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Magazines of LLC Publishing House "Grebennikov": Access is provided from all computers of the Russian Cooperation University. |
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In the department of access to electronic resources, users can get acquainted with books and periodicals of the multidisciplinary resource “RUKONT”. |
Legal reference system ConsultantPlus
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The ConsultantPlus system is a reliable assistant for many professionals: lawyers, accountants, heads of organizations, as well as government specialists, scientists and students. It contains a huge array of legal and background information. Access to the legal system is provided from the university’s local network; the legal system contains all the information banks necessary for the educational process. The system's information banks are replenished and updated weekly. |
Foreign databases
The World Bank eLibrary is a comprehensive collection of electronic books, reports, journal articles, and research reviews published since the early 1990s.
World Development Indicators - contains statistical information on economic, social, financial indicators, as well as data on natural resources and the environment. There is a convenient option for graphical presentation of the received information.
World Development Indicators - 50+ key indicators.
BOOKS: 2,800+ books and 7,300+ chapters.
MAGAZINES: 970+ articles without embargo from such popular magazines as World Bank Eco-nomic Review, World Bank Research Observer, and Development Outreach.
WORKERSARTICLES: 7,730+ of Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank Discussion Papers, World Bank Technical Papers, and World Bank Working Papers.
OTHER TYPE OF CONTENT : 3,500+ from economic reviews, annual reports of MIGA, ICSID, IFC.
Global Development Finance - contains information on public debt and its payments, foreign investment and financial flows of 135 countries. Time coverage - from 1970 to 2012 (including commitments undertaken by countries). There is a convenient option for graphical presentation of the received information.
The administration of the library and information center reminds of the need to comply with the rules for working with licensed electronic resources: the user is not allowed to fully or partially copy the information contained in the presented electronic resources for the purpose of subsequent distribution without the written consent of the Owner of the electronic resource.
By the beginning of the new academic year, the university, and along with it the publishing sphere of activity, found itself faced with a problem, the essence of which is conveyed by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (No. 588 of June 7, 2010). We are talking about changes in the form of a certificate of availability of educational, educational and methodological literature and other library and information resources and means of supporting the educational process, the fourth section of which is set out in the following wording: “Providing the educational process with an electronic library system necessary for the implementation of applications for licensing educational programs"1. The following sets out specific requirements for electronic library systems (ELS). It was the latter that caused excitement among universities and university libraries, on whose shoulders the creation of electronic library systems is entrusted, and among specialists involved in the creation of electronic libraries (EL), electronic resources (ER), and now electronic library systems.
Disputes are disputes, but in a letter from the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated December 16, 2009, it is clearly defined: “During 2010, universities need to ensure compliance with all requirements established by the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Professional Education, including the specified requirement to provide students with access to ELS”2. Leaving aside the emotional and terminological side of the heated discussion that has arisen, let us dwell on the real state of affairs in the modern market of electronic technologies, publications and resources.
The modern market of electronic resources offers various options for solving the problem of providing university libraries with access to ELS, but, one way or another, all of them can be reduced to three main ones:
- creation of your own EBS;
- subscribing to a ready-made EBS from third-party organizations (aggregators);
- creation of interuniversity electronic libraries.
Let's try to consider each of the proposed options in more detail.
The first option involves the formation of a university’s own electronic data system that meets the requirements of government bodies and the immediate needs of the university, hosted on its own server and used at its own discretion. At first glance, this option offers undoubted advantages: all educational and methodological material is put in order, digitized, posted online, and there is access. But this is an apparent advantage, since creating and maintaining your own electronic data system entails serious costs, sometimes significantly exceeding, for example, the costs of subscribing to external electronic resources.
But this is not the only problem. Here are a few more issues that the university will have to face:
- according to the requirements of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part 4, license agreements with copyright holders must be concluded in writing;
- the list of scientific and educational materials published by the university and protected by copyright is in most cases very voluminous;
- the essence of the license agreement is quite complex, and in some cases is not always certain (for example, proprietary works);
- even created and signed license agreements require support and maintenance of the full life cycle (accounting statements, mutual settlements with authors, etc.).
We deliberately do not touch upon the issue of the content itself in this section, since a university’s own collection of electronic full-text documents may simply not contain educational and methodological literature on some of the disciplines taught at the university. And this already means that the specified EBS does not meet the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
The second option seems to be the simplest. Today there are many content aggregators on the market offering their services in the form of subscriptions to thematic collections of books and archives of periodicals in electronic form. However, in practice it turns out that it is not so easy to find an offer at which the price/quality ratio of filling the resource would be optimal. Currently, the cost of access to electronic full-text databases is quite high. It consists of the costs of scanning text, describing and indexing documents, etc. But the most labor-intensive, and therefore the most costly, are the processes associated with the legalization of content (contractual work with authors) and technological ones (systems for collecting, storing content and systems for organizing access). By carrying out this work, the costs are ultimately passed on to the university by the aggregator. Moreover, a subscription to these resources is issued, as a rule, for a year, and with its termination, access to documents is also terminated.
The third option involves combining the electronic collections of several universities into a single electronic database. Each of the participants, by uploading their collection to the corporate product, gains access to the collections of partner universities, thereby covering the missing positions of their own. At the same time, the costs of maintaining the system are also divided between the participants. But, unfortunately, this option does not solve all problems. In particular, the issue of working with copyright holders remains open, since each of the collections must be formed on the basis of direct agreements with the latter.
Also, the issue of parity in the participation of universities in this project cannot be ruled out: one university can provide 10 rare documents, and another, say, 5 thousand official documents. In addition, this type of cooperation also implies financial relations between the participants, which can complicate partnerships.
Of course, all three models have a number of undeniable advantages. But none of them individually is optimal.
Until recently, none of the EBS developers could respond to the needs of the market with an adequate proposal that could combine the positive aspects of all three models. To solve this problem, the “Contextum” consortium was organized in 2008, the founders of which are the Central Collector of Libraries “BIBKOM”, the “Kniga-Service” agency and the Agency for the Distribution of Foreign Publications (ARZI). Within the framework of the consortium, the information system (IS) “Contextum” was developed and implemented, the operation of which began in May 2010.
The goal that the developers set for themselves was to provide universities with technology designed to create an electronic library system that meets the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Professional Education and the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. At the same time, this system must combine all the positive properties of the three previously described models for creating EBS and minimize the negative factors that arise in this case. So what is the proposed technology?
The technological solution for accessing the system is organized through a Web interface. This means that each participant in the system can access it from anywhere there is Internet access. This means that one of the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science for EBS has been met.
The new technology makes it possible to create direct written licensing agreements with authors and, on their basis, to form a legitimate university electronic library, including uploading the electronic documents themselves into it. The entire information array is located on remote servers, which eliminates the university’s costs for technical support associated with storing content, providing access and protecting content and communications.
How is the possibility of combining three models for creating an EBS implemented in the system? By becoming a partner of the Contextum IS, a university gets the opportunity to create its own digital library, can place in it works the rights to which belong to the university, as well as works whose copyright holders are university employees, and works of “external” authors, if they have appropriate licensing agreements .
As a result, a data array is formed consisting of electronic databases of different universities. And this implies both thematic breadth of coverage and the possibility of exchanging these materials. That is, each participant has free access to his own digital library and, if desired, can subscribe to the digital library of other universities. The convenience is that the university library gets access to its own library and to the one it has subscribed to on one resource. In addition to universities, large rights holders (publishers and editorial offices of periodicals), content aggregators (traditional and electronic libraries), as well as individual authors also participate in the project. An electronic full-text database created on a similar basis allows the formation of thematic collections, the search of which can be carried out according to various parameters: subject, rubricators, publishers, authors, year of creation of the work. A significant part of the content included in the information array of the Contextum IS is freely available (free) and is provided to university libraries as an additional service.
What additional benefits does a university receive by working in the Contextum information system?
- Participation in the project is free for universities.
- All EPDs are entered into the system only on the basis of direct license agreements with copyright holders.
- All forms of agreements concluded with copyright holders comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of protection of copyright and related rights.
- The generated legitimate content can be used for both educational and commercial purposes.
- The system is equipped with its own billing system, ensuring all financial settlements with copyright holders and mutual settlements between project participants.
Below is a diagram of the interaction of university structures with the Contextum information system when creating an ELS. Blue arrows show contractual relations of copyright holders at all levels, red arrows show financial relations (mutual settlements). Thus, by creating legitimate content of their own electronic library in the Contextum system, the university or its employees retain all copyrights and have the opportunity to legally dispose of this content, including receiving remuneration for its commercial use.
It should be added that the Contextum IS fully complies with the requirements of the third generation federal state educational standards in relation to electronic library systems3. At the same time, the Contextum IS meets additional requirements for EBS4, namely: registration of electronic media; registration of software used to create an electronic data system; registration of the EBS materials database used.
- http://www.edu.ru/db-mon/mo/Data/d_10/prm588-1.htm
- See also: http://www.mnogozakonov.ru/catalog/date/2009/12/24/56840/
- See: Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 2920 of October 31, 2009, Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 133 of April 23, 2008, Order of Rosobrnadzor No. 885 of September 30, 2005, Order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation No. 1623 of April 11, 2001, p. 7.18 Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on the approval and implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard for FPO.
- Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of June 7, 2010 No. 588.
70% of students prefer printed textbooks to electronic ones
Electronic library systems are gradually being integrated into the educational environment of universities. The results, problems and prospects for the development of the digital library were discussed at a discussion held at the Russian National Library as part of the conference “Library Collections in the Digital Age”.
EBS: trends 2013
The growth of the electronic library systems market has currently stalled. New players are not appearing, work begins on the quality of resources. Universities figured out what an EBS is and found solutions that were convenient for them, concluding long-term contracts with suppliers.
Characterizing the situation in the electronic content market, experts noted that many universities have significantly increased the book collections that form the digital library (for example, due to university publications that were previously unavailable to online users). Sergey Ivanov, commercial director of EBS “IPRbooks” noted that the focus of the content has also changed: there has been a transition from humanities to technical specialties, as well as to construction and architecture.
There are subscribers, but there is no activity
However, electronic library systems have not yet become an important tool in the educational life of a university. Most teachers and students do without electronic resources or do not attach importance to them.
“There are universities where there are an average of 8 books per student, this is a very high figure. In other universities there are 0.01 books per student. A colossal gap of 800 times,” commented Konstantin Kostyuk, General Director of Direct Media LLC.
The ineffective use of electronic resources by universities is also confirmed by Galina Shamatonova, director of the library of Yaroslavl State University: “By the beginning of 2014, about 1,000 users were registered in the online university library - 10% of the total number of students and teachers.” The situation is the same in the region as a whole. For example, at the Yaroslavl Medical Academy in 2013, 500 “Student Consultant” access cards were distributed to students and teachers, and only 217 of them were activated.
According to a study conducted by Yaroslavl librarians, only 11% of students surveyed use electronic textbooks, while 70% of students are inclined to use the traditional printed version. Universities themselves also complicate the development of electronic libraries by purchasing paper textbooks, which teachers use to build the educational process.
Publishers believe that the task of attracting students to use ELS should fall on the shoulders of universities. Without the popularization of electronic resources in educational institutions, statistics will not change for the better.
From general to specific
An important trend of last year was the targeted acquisition of university subscriptions. This approach becomes necessary if the university is serious about using EBS resources and not “for show.” Point picking allows you to select the industry textbooks you need and spend less money than subscribing to one basic collection, the contents of which will be used ineffectively.
Thanks to a targeted approach to acquisition, in 2013 small universities were able to rise to the same levels in book output as large educational institutions acquiring large subscriptions.
Forecasts
Experts described the changes that await the EBS market as a game of elimination. A large number of players will cause intense competition, since there are 15 electronic library systems in the market of 400 million rubles. The expected development scenario is a price struggle and redistribution of market shares. The above trends will also be exacerbated by university optimization: the desire to buy more for less money. It is important to remember that the main thing in these business competitions is not to lose the quality of Russian educational content.
Standards and Certification
To prevent competition from becoming unfair and leading to the imitation of quality resources, it is necessary to formulate industry standards and create professional public examination and certification. The concept of quality should be the same for everyone, representatives of the publishing community are convinced.
Librarians agree with them: the interest of students in using electronic resources will depend on the current content and convenience of electronic library systems.
Summarizing the discussion, we can conclude: all participants in the book market must join the fight for quality. Universities need to turn ELS into a real, rather than formal, element of the educational process, and publishers and aggregators need to take care of creating high-quality ELS with up-to-date licensed content, a workable platform, and interactive services.