The Library in the Card: Results from Decomate Project and Current Developments at UAB

The Library in the card is the slogan which would summarize the aims of the Univeritat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) Library Service in its involvement in several EC Libraries Programme projects. It refers to the possibility of a member of the UAB community to accessing whatever document he/she needs from his/her desktop on time. The identity card should be the key which opens his/her library without hours and place constraints. This paper explains the results from the DECOMATE project one year after its completion, looks into UAB usage studies and further conclusions and makes the audience aware of planned work in the follow up project DECOMATE II. In a summary UAB Library Service is currently offering the UAB community (35,000 students, 2,500 academic staff and 1,500 administrative staff) access to 267 scientific journals at their wish. Articles are provided by three publishers (Elsevier Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers and our own UAB Publications Service) directly in electronic f...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ELPUB
• Authors: Nuria Gallart
• Keywords: EC Libraries, ELPUB 1998, Information Management, UAB Community, UAB Usage Studies