New Models for Scholarly Information Access

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New Models for Scholarly Information Access

• Academic Business Library Directors
• Dartmouth
• April 7, 2002

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Making Sense of New Access Models
E-journals
Item Level Linking
SFX
Full text links
SmartLink
Link Server
InfoMarks
DOI
A I
A-Z Lists
Appropriate Copy
Context sensitive linking
OPACs
CustomLinks
CrossLinks
LinkFinderPlus
CrossRef
Full text databases
Local load
Persistent Links
MARC21
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Electronic resources
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OPAC and Journal List
E-content
Library
Document Ordering
Web search engines
ILL Requests
Publisher
catalog
Journal list
E-journal Hosting sites
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways
List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases
AIdatabases
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Linking AI to library resources
E-content
Library
Document Ordering
Web search engines
ILL Requests
Publisher
catalog
Journal list
E-journal Hosting sites
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways
List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases
AIdatabases
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Link Server puts library in control
E-content
Library
Document Ordering
Web search engines
ILL Requests
Publisher
catalog
Journal list
E-journal Hosting sites
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways
List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases
AIdatabases
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Summary of linking services

• Support discovery of E-content
• Seamlessly link search results and references to
  full text
• Dynamically link search results to OPAC or other
  related services
• Support for Link Servers

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E-content
Library
Document Ordering
Web search engines
ILL Requests
Publisher
catalog
Journal list
E-journal Hosting sites
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways
List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases
AIdatabases
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Supporting E-content Discovery
E-content
Library
Publisher
catalog
E-journal Hosting sites
Cataloging
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways

• Provide CONSER records

List of indexes
AIdatabases

• PCC Task Group on Journals in Aggregator
  databases

Full text databases
AIdatabases

• Persistent links to the journal

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Supporting E-content Discovery
E-content
Library
Publisher
catalog
E-journal Hosting sites
Cataloging
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways

• Records reflect actual holdings

List of indexes
AIdatabases

• Other format include HTML and tab-delimited.

Full text databases

• Work directly with organizations such as jake
  and Serials Solutions

AIdatabases
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Accessing Full text from an OPAC

• Demonstration

• STUDENT ASSIGNMENT
• Please read the following article and be prepared
  to discuss during out next class
• Charting the dangers of the NIM challenge. By
  Segerstrom, John ABA Banking Journal, Jan2002,
  Vol. 94 Issue 1, p20

Customer OPAC (ABA Banking Journal)
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Seamless link to full text
E-content
Library
Secondary Indexes

• From citations and references

Publisher

• To full text in full text aggregated database

catalog

• To full text via E-Journal gateway

E-journal Hosting sites

• To publisher through CrossRef

SmartLinks
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways
List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases
AIdatabases
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SmartLink Statistics

• Journals
• EBSCOhost 4,400
• EBSCO E-Journals Service 5,300
• Publishers direct(via CrossRef) 6,000
• Total unique titles 10,000 (est.)
• Articles
• EBSCOhost 5 million
• EJS 1.8 million
• CrossRef 4.5 million
• Total unique articles 8 million (est.)

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Links to other resources
E-content
Library
Publisher
catalog
Journal list
E-journal Hosting sites
CustomLinks
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways

• Dynamically constructed

List of indexes
AIdatabases

• To library catalog

Full text databases

• To journal list

AIdatabases

• To ILL request system

• To document delivery

• To other web services

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Link Targets

• OPAC/A-Z Lists
• Aleph (Ex Libris)
• EZB (Germany)
• Innovative Interfaces
• SIRSI
• Voyager (Endeavor)
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• many more
• ILL/Doc Delivery
• British Library
• CISTI
• ERIC Document Supply Center
• FIZ Autodoc (Germany)
• Godot
• Infotrieve

• Book Services
• EBSCO Book Service
• Web Search Engines
• AltaVista
• Google
• PubMed
• Yahoo
• Link Servers
• 1cate
• jake
• Link Baton
• LinkFinderPlus
• LitLink
• SFX
• SIRSI

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Support for Link Servers
E-content
Library
Document Ordering
Publisher
ILL Requests
catalog
Journal list
Link Server
E-journal Hosting sites
CustomLinks
SmartLinks
AIdatabases
E-journal Gateways

• Link Server manages links to related services

List of indexes
AIdatabases
Full text databases

• OpenURL compliant link created dynamically

AIdatabases

• Real-time discovery of verified full text
  links

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The SFX flow EBSCOhost as link source
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Link Servers

• Provide interoperable item-level linking
• Using OpenURL syntax, many information sources
  can link to a librarys link server
• URL contains metadata for item being linked from
• Presents user with menu of links to targets
  relevant to item described on URL
• Library in control of which links display
• Result is sophisticated item-level linking easily
  added to multiple information sources

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E Journals
TOC
OPAC
Link Server
A I
Citations
Doc Delivery
Full text database
Web
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Ehost EJS
ingenta
OPAC
Link Server
Ehost DBs
ISI
Start
British Library
Gale
Google
End
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Ehost EJS
ingenta
OPAC
Link Server
Ehost DBs
ISI
Start
End
British Library
Gale
Google
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Summary of linking services

• End user discovery of E-content through OPAC or
  A-Z list
• MARC21 services, support for A-Z Lists (Serials
  Solutions)
• Validated link of search results and references
  to full text
• CrossRef, DOI, SmartLinks, Link Servers (SFX,
  LinkFinderPlus)
• Dynamically link search results to OPAC or other
  related services
• Link Servers, SilverLinker, InfoMarks,
  CrossLinks, CustomLinks
• Support for Link Servers
• OpenURL compliance