Scope: Below is the typical Electronic Resources & Serials Acquisitions Department workflow for processing new ebook packages. Workflows are separated based on whether or not the purchase is one-time purchase or a renewal. For one-time purchases, workflows are separated based on whether or not the purchase is an ebook frontlist purchase or a closed collection purchase. Many of the steps may not occur in the order in which they are listed below due to the context around each individual order.
Contact: Abigail Wickes
Unit: Electronic Resources & Serials Acquisitions
Date last reviewed: 01/03/2018
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- Order Approver creates a new Trello card from the Frontlist 1x Purchase Template card and adds the following information:
- Subject specialist
- Provider
- Vendor
- 1x cost
- AAF
- Budget code
- Order number
- Number of simultaneous users
- Expected number of volumes
- Notes
- Order Approver verifies that we don't already own and that funds are available.
- Order Approver confirms pricing and access options.
- Order Approver places order with vendor.
- Order Approver moves to In Process Ordering list and adds Order Creator to card.
- Order Approver receives confirmation of order.
- If required, the Order Approver verifies that license has been completed.
- Order Approver adds title list to card and to shared drive.
- If there is an annual access fee, Order Approver adds it to the Recurring Payment Tracker.
- Order Approver moves card to Awaiting Invoice list.
- Order Approver attaches invoice to card.
- Order Creator creates order in Aleph.
- Create brief bibliographic record in Aleph.
- Select Order type: M=Monographs (Used for One Time Purchases)
- Material Type: EB=Electronic Book
- Acquistions Acquisitions Method: P (Purchase)
- Library Note: Number of users, One Time Purchase, number of books in collection.
- Vendor Name: Select/key Aleph vendor code
- List Price (from Trello)
- Budget (from Trello)
- Update order number in Trello
- Order Creator adds order number to description.
- Order Creator pays invoice when necessary licensing is complete.
- Make sure vendor address information is correct, obtain any forms needed to make changes
- Create invoice in Aleph
- Submit invoice to Accounting for payment
- Order Creator moves card to Awaiting Access List and adds Access Confirmer to card.
- Order Creator closes the order record.
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- Order Approver creates a new Trello card from the Closed Collection 1x Purchase Template card and adds the following information:
- Subject specialist
- Provider
- Vendor
- 1x cost
- AAF
- Budget code
- Order number
- Number of simultaneous users
- Expected number of volumes
- Notes
- Order Approver verifies we don't already own and that funds are available.
- Order Approver confirms pricing and access options.
- Order Approver places order with vendor.
- Order Approver moves to In Process Ordering list and adds Order Creator to card.
- Order Approver receives confirmation of order.
- If required, the Order Approver verifies that license has been completed.
- Order Approver adds title list to card and to SharepointL drive.
- If there is an annual access fee, Order Approver adds it to the Recurring Payment Tracker.
- Order Approver moves card to Awaiting Invoice list.
- Order Approver attaches invoice to card.
- Order Creator creates order in Aleph.
- Create brief bibliographic record in Aleph.
- Select Order type: M=Monographs (Used for One Time Purchases)
- Material Type: EB=Electronic Book
- Acquistions Method: P (Purchase)
- Library Note: Number of users, One Time Purchase, number of books in collection.
- Vendor Name: Select/key Aleph vendor code
- List Price (from Trello)
- Budget (from Trello)
- Update order number in Trello
- Order Creator adds order number to card description.
- When necessary licensing is complete, Order Creator pays invoice.
- Make sure vendor address information is correct, obtain any forms needed to make changes
- Create invoice in Aleph
- Submit invoice to Accounting for payment
- Order Creator moves card to Awaiting Access list and adds Access Confirmer to card.
- Order Creator closes order record
Access & Discovery
- Access Confirmer confirms access when access notification is received.
- Access Confirmer updates access in Serials Solutions.
- Makes sure the title represents the subscribed resource
- Click "Edit" for the holding in Serials Solutions. Select "Subscribed" from the drop-down menu for "Status."
- The 360 Search box should only be selected if requested
- Check the 360 MARC box if we want to receive MARC records from Serials Solutions (preferred choice)
- Spot check URLs to make sure they go to subscribed landing page
- Compare title list from provider with Serials Solutions title list
- If free, check the "omit proxy from this database" box
- Fill in "LocID" field when appropriate
- Access Confirmer notifies subject specialist that resource is available and shares access URL.
- Access Confirmer adds resource to appropriate ERSA FY changes spreadsheet.
- Access Confirmer adds closed collection title list to shared F drive in Title lists folder.
- Access Confirmer submits AskTech ticket with closed collection title list to block titles in GOBI.
- Access Confirmer moves card to appropriate FY Acquired list.
- Access Confirmer adds Admin Account Coordinator to card
- Notify the Admin Account Coordinator by tagging the staff member in a comment on the Trello card.
- Admin Account Coordinator follows the steps of this workflow to verify that the platform has an admin account and to add the appropriate IPs, branding, contact information, etc.