The home page of the PALS (Publishers and Library/Learning Solutions group) Working Group.

Publisher and Library Solutions Group (PALS)

The Publisher and Library Solutions Working Group was set up in November 2002 to analyse the barriers to publishers' and libraries' use of metdata and identify possible solutions.Membership is drawn from both the publishing and the library communities.

Vision

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The Publisher and Librarians Solutions group will help realise the value that publishers and librarians working together can achieve for higher education, libraries, publishers and beyond.  Providing a forum for the development and dissemination of best practice, innovation and adopting the role of expert group for JISC’s work in this area.

Objectives

  • Support the higher education community in the innovative use of  Information and Communications Technology to support education, research and institutional effectiveness,
  • Develop a portfolio of high-quality resources to support academic institutions and publishers in ensuring access to content and services for teaching, learning and research,
  • Help communicate, disseminate and where possible embed the outputs and findings of PALS and relevant JISC work in the appropriate national and international communities,
  • Be proactive and engage with the JISC and publisher communities to ensure potential opportunities are surfaced and solutions developed where possible,
  • Support the adoption, and implementation of standards and best practice among publishers and libraries (and across the HE community).

Approach

The group will employ an approach that will enable them to meet the objectives they have to meet the needs of the library and publisher communities:

  • Identifying emerging opportunities within the library and scholarly publishing space, and where appropriate;
  • Realise the potential of these areas by developing strategic working groups to explore developments within these emerging areas, and provide expert input in the development of work around these areas.

More information on the groups current work can be found at the Current Projects webpage. But below are some PALS highlights:

2011 PALS funds a project to explore the impact of patron-driven acquisition of e-books models and the importance of e-book metadata: The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-books.
2009 Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (PIRUS) is funded. This important project helps establish a global standard that enables the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage stats for articles held by institutional repositories
2006 Phase 2 of the PALS work is funded and explicitly explores issues around the presentation of content from different sources, the integration of publisher-initiated standards into the JISC funding environment. Projects in this phase included: TOCRoSS: Table of Contents by RSS feeds and COUNTER Filter: Improving the compatibility of usage statistics.
2003-2005 This groundbreaking first phase of work includes: DOI - Digital Object Identifiers for Publishers and the e-Learning Community and An OAI-compliant Metadata Repository for a specialist Publisher of e-Journals

See a list of members

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