Managing SFX: Collaboration between ILTS

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Managing SFX Collaboration between ILTS
E-Collections

• Nisa Bakkalbasi
• Electronic Collections Librarian

Este Pope Systems Librarian
CDC Meeting Yale University Library February 22,
2007
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Todays Talk

• What is SFX?
• Who uses it and why?
• How is it managed?

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What is SFX

• Generically referred as context-sensitive link
  server.
• SFX is the proprietary name devised by ExLibris.
• We renamed it Yale Links.

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It starts in a database
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How it works?
Source window
Services window
Target window
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Service menu we have it in full text!
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Service menu we dont have it in full text!
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More than full text
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Bringing Google users back to the library
collection
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Number of requests and clickthroughs

• From January 1, 2007 to February 17, 2007
• There have been 106,333 requests and 78,328
  clickthroughs.
• Number of requests per source
• PubMed 26,428
• OVID Medline16,885
• EBSCO 13,423
• Web of Science 10,169
• Google Scholar 9,028

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Most popular journals

• Billboard (13,424)
• The New England journal of medicine (846)
• Science (789)
• Journal of the American Chemical Society (723)
• Nature (668)
• JAMA (597)

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Number of clickthroughs per target

• E-Journals lookup (10,793)
• Orbis lookup (7,698)
• EbscoHost Academic Search Premier (7,529)
• Elsevier Freedom Collection (7,476)
• Ovid Journals (4,297)

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A shared responsibility
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ILTS and E-collections signs a contract - May 2006

• E-Collections
• Manage contents of the database.
• Respond to forwarded target error/repair issues.
• Create documentation and provide training for the
  knowledge base maintenance team.
• ILTS
• Monthly updates, software updates, upgrades
• Troubleshooting problem reports
• Interface configuration, enhancements

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Please forward all Yale Links questions to Este
and Nisa.

• Thank you!