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(MER): variation to all of above that requires specialized negotiations/licensing agreements and workflows, purchasing, activation, pre-payment and access/cataloging for materials available electronically from 3rd party. Access for patrons is via Discovery Layer (library website) via URI/URL. Staff have to monitor access issues (technical, bad URLs for patrons) and terms (changes in agreements, addendums that can affect cost, access).
* Above does overviews do not cover Decision Support and Reporting. Libraries require financial reports, and lots of statistical analysis and queries on their collections-- OLE will need to provide or expose its data for external analysis.
Common OLE Terms:
OLE Glossary- OLE Glossary
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