Janus Collaborative Information Centres
APPENDIX I
Architecture
Updated 24 February, 1999
To test the concept of a one-stop shop for information in a given discipline,
the following elements must be examined:
End User - who will use the information?
Researcher
Academic
Student
Library staff
Other?
Discovery - how does the user know what is available?
Web-based gateway (CIC) to:
Online resources.
Print resources.
Online bibliographic tools
Online catalogues, Z39.50, robots, harvesters
Non-online bibliographic tools?
Non-online catalogues?
Aggregators
Publishers
Access/Ownership - does the user/group own or have access to the required
information?
Maximise purchasing power of the consortium partners
Reduce duplication
Identify clients
CIC collection
Other Australian collections
Online resources (licensing & copyright must be addressed)
National licences
Consortium licences
Transaction licences
Resources not owned/licensed by CIC/nation
National reciprocal borrowing
Archive - how is long-term availability of the information managed?
Print
National store?
Regional store?
Institutional store?
Digitisation?
Electronic
Licensed access?
National mirror site?
Delivery - how & how quickly can the information be delivered to
the user?
Direct electronic.
Ariel electronic.
National inter-library loan.
International inter-library loan.
Commercial document delivery/inter-library loan
Brokerage.
Performance Indicators - how does the CIC improve on the service
delivery of the individual institution?
Delivery response time for known objects.
Cost of delivery.
Breadth of national collection.
Management - how does the group manage and sustain the CIC?
Corporate structure.
Centralised/distributed structure.
Potential participants
Funding
Subscription models
Transaction-based models
Top-slice national funding models
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