~ Benjamin Heet, Robin Malott, Galadriel Chilton, William Doering

1. Open Source Electronic Resource
Management Systems:
CORAL and ERMes
Benjamin J. Heet Galadriel Chilton
Senior Technical Consultant/Analyst ALA Annual Conference Electronic Resources Librarian
Robin Malott June 26, 2011 William Doering
Sr. Software Developer 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Systems, Catalog, & Digital Initiatives Librarian

2. Electronic Resource Management
System Overview
Benefits Challenges
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3. Electronic Resource Management
System Overview
Every library has different work flows, different purchasing
models, and different needs based on how they operate.
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One size does not fit all!

4. Electronic Resource Management
System Overview
Libraries need flexible tools that are customizable and easily adapt to
the quickly changing landscape of resource management.
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5. Building an ERM Yourself
Reasons why we pursued local development.
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6. Building an ERM Yourself
What are the dangers and challenges of local
development?
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7. Releasing as Open Source
The benefits of sharing the code and building a user
community.
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Better solutions through shared work.

8. Supporting the Software
Sustainability of open source software and costs/benefits
of using open source software.
Juggling with our other job
responsibilities
• Build a better system through the contributions of a
community of users
• Benefits of utilizing commonly used technologies

9. ERMes
ERMes’ History: How and Why an MS Access ERMS

10. ERMes
The ERMes Community

11. ERMes
Supporting ERMes Users
http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/

12. ERMes: Supporting Users

13. ERMes
Demo!

14. ERMes
Into the Future and Beyond
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15. CORAL
Centralized Online Resources Acquisitions and Licensing
 Our Development Approach
- Needs based
- Keep it simple
- Ease of use
 Why CORAL?
- Open Source
- Built by a library
- Modular
- Customization

16. acq workflow management

17. product details, local data

18. routing, task based alerts

19. administration, customization

20. licensing management

21. document details, relationships

22. license expressions, terms

23. organizations management

24. org details, local account data

25. journal stats management

26. platform, publisher details

27. reporting front-end

28. CORAL
Centralized Online Resources Acquisitions and Licensing
GET CORAL @
http://erm.library.nd.edu
Robin Malott, rmalott@nd.edu
Benjamin Heet, bheet1@nd.edu