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newsletter April 2014
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About the Knowledge Base+
The newsletter will keep you updated with news related to Knowledge Base+ (KB+), details of events we are running and aspects of Knowledge Base+ functionality.
Knowledge Base+ is a Jisc service within the digital content and discovery division.
Please let us know what type of information you would like to see included by mailing us at: kbplus@jisc-collections.ac.uk
News
KB+ Datamanager automatically updates your KB+ account with Jisc subscriptions to avoid duplication. Please contact us if you wish to opt out of this service or would like further information about how it works. We will soon be welcoming BIBSAM (Swedish consortium of university and research libraries) and Gemeinsamer Bibliotheks Verbund (GBV), a German library consortium, to KB+. We hope the continued growth of the KB+ community will provide further opportunities for collaboration and expansion of our knowledgebase. In KB+ there will now only be one title list for all multi-year NESLI2 deals, allowing you to create a subscription and link to one package for the duration of the deal. Over the course of the deal we will continue to update the title list, add information to the coverage notes and amend the holdings to indicate new titles and those that are no longer in the package. This will be more efficient and save time for both you and your data managers by keeping you up to date with all the changes that have occurred in one go.
Knowledge Base+ aims to help UK libraries manage their e-resources more efficiently by providing accurate publication, subscription, licence and management information.
Events Find out more about the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP), another Jisc service within the digital content and discovery division.
We will be presenting at the ‘Making the Most of JUSP’ workshop on 4 June 2014 at the University of Bath. We are also planning further joint workshops with JUSP (details to follow shortly). We are committed to working closely with JUSP and to providing further integration and ensuring greater efficiency.
Training We recently held two successful training days in Scotland with attendees from 9 Scottish institutions. The sessions included practical exercises demonstrating how use KB+ to perform core tasks such as editing profiles, adding licences and subscriptions. We are seeking collaboration in organising KB+ training. Please contact us if you are willing to provide a venue with PCs.
Massive input from focus groups In early March, the KB+ team of data managers and developers ran focus groups in Edinburgh, London and Manchester, in order to gain input from you on how the key KB+ screens with which you interact might be enhanced to better meet your needs. This exercise required hard work and frank criticism as well as smart thinking. Many thanks to all those who attended; all three events were fully booked, with a total of 45 people participating. Needless to say, we were very appreciative of the efforts made by so many of our library colleagues. What were we trying to achieve? There are around 24 screens (or ‘forms’) that are regularly used in KB+ activities by e-resource librarians. Our key objective was