#ermsworkflow #erl12

Workflow & Organizations

eJournal workflow, ERM workflow

The panel will discuss two different implementations of new ERM workflows.

The first presentation will cover how the University of Houston Libraries has developed a workflow to
use their ERM and Excel spreadsheets to drive the eJournal management process from acquisition to
access. A review of the literature has shown that there is a struggle in how to translate print journal
management into eJournal management and how the processing of the eJournals should be done. Many
libraries seem to have adapted their print journal workflow to accommodate the influx of eJournals, but
that doesn’t necessarily take into to consideration that some of the practices do not necessarily lend
themselves to eJournals, such as claiming and check in. Attendees will learn that providing access to
the subscribed resources can be achieved via a channel of shared process, transparency, decent tracking
and collaboration.

The second presentation will discuss Tulane University’s implementation of Coral, by Notre Dame. The
session will show the steps that Tulane took to evaluate and improve workflows and how they used the
new ERMS implementation to foster communication and collaboration around the library.