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I was about to suggest to merge the tags and but I am not fully sure. Is there a commonly agreed upon difference between both terms? I think the term e-resources is only used in libraries to refer to digital media. Wikipedia has only an article about electronic resource management (ERM) which could also be named "management of digital media".

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I know this distinction only from Ex Libris, a vendor of library software. For example:

Unified resource management: Alma supports the entire suite of library operations for print, electronic, and digital resources (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/AlmaOverview)

In this context, "electronic resources" refers to digital material an institution can license from a publisher and which is transferred to the library / the user on request. "Digital resources" on the other hand typically refers to files you actually own yourself and which are stored in an institutional repository or filesystem.

Personally, I find the wording of this distinction counter-intuitive. But in essence, it is justified, because it helps to distinguish between two types of materials which are processed in quite different library workflows (electronic resource management vs. repository management).

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It's possible that 'digital-media' may also include physical digital volumes (eg, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, DAT, DLT) ... but there's still the assumption that the library has it, vs. it being licensed and distributed from some third party. – Joe Nov 6 '12 at 21:40

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