WHY WANTED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ANKOS?

In our age characterized as the age of information, speed and technology; access to reliable information in the fastest and easiest way has gained importance, the transfer of information from the printed environment to the electronic environment has become widespread, and technology has become almost limitless in accessing information. As the Internet has created a new universal space for information sharing, collaboration and trade, consortia have become imperative; since the 2000’s when electronic magazines began, large libraries around the world have come together to create consortiums to make it easier and more economical for the user to access information. ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium), which was established for the same purpose in our country, started its work in 2000 with a joint subscription to three databases of 12 member institutions. ANKOS today has more than 60 publishers with 1628 agreements with 83 separate databases; It is a consortium, a professional association, a large volunteer community that has 155 members of universities and research institutions and has approximately 50 employees, and has taken its place in the international arena.

AIM OF ANKOS:

Universities and research libraries the most affordable price, the more e-resources access and to ensure, in the framework of economies of scale, sharing of investment in these products, performing academics and students access to the highest levels of the global information network in Turkey, training and collaboration to improve the support of the library to research it is to carry out.

CONSORTIUM OBJECTIVES:

– Ensuring joint policy union among members on issues such as taking into account the rational development of databases of subscribed or purchased e-books and the purchase of more resources to meet the educational and research needs of users of institutions participating in the consortium.
– Providing continuous training of staff and exchange of staff among the member libraries.
– Increasing the participation of ANKOS in international developments by cooperating with appropriate institutes and organizations in domestic and abroad regarding copyright, license agreements and other consortia around the world.
– Turkey attempts are necessary to ensure the development of academic libraries.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ANKOS

ANKOS President:
İsmail ÇETİNKAYA – Isparta Uygulamalı Bilimler University

Board members:
Perihan SEMERCİ – Kocaeli University
Tuna CAN – Ankara University
Muhammet KIZIL – Artvin Çoruh University
Nihat NACAR – Cukurova University
Onur BUĞAN – Dogus University
İlhami TÜRKYILMAZ – Amasya University

ANKOS WORKING GROUPS:

  • License Agreements Group
  • Public Relations Group
  • Statistics Group
  • Open Access & Institutional Repositories Group
  • Ankos Academy Group
  • Ankos E-Book Working Group
  • Ankos Database Assessment Working Group
  • ANKOS RESEARCH GROUPS:
    Collaboration Group