Electronic resources are more prominent than ever in library collections, yet they resist easy management. A range of tools and cooperative efforts are emerging to improve the management and evaluation of electronic resources. Initiatives are underway to standardize and automate the harvesting of usage statistics and e-journal title and holdings information. In this article, the author states that standards are critical to merging and analyzing e-content data from disparate sources. Thus, he presents the needed standards which the electronic publishers, systems vendors, and librarians have worked.