Complete EJournal Access Solutions

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Serials Solutions product overview
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Data, data everywhere . . .
A sentence from a recent issue of Science
summarizes an interdisciplinary challenge facing
librarians today
"Paradoxically, we are not limited by lack of
knowledge, but by our failure to synthesize and
distribute what we know."
(Primm et al. Science 2932208)
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Data . . . The Core Issue

• We know that over the next 5 years, Libraries
  will be faced with

• Tremendously increasing amount of data
• Significant increase in the complexity of that
  data

For the foreseeable future, DATA will be the
chief concern for modern libraries seeking to
provide the highest value services to their
patrons.
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The importance of electronic journals
per Carnegie Classification, 2000 greater
of 1998 IPEDS or 2002 American Library
Directory Serials Solutions data, September
2003
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The importance of electronic journals
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Ask yourself the following questions

• How many electronic resources do you have?
• How much do you spend on these resources?
• Do your students know where to find a particular
  serial?
• Are your electronic resources overused or
  underused?
• Would you like your electronic resources to be
  used more?
• Do you know exactly what electronic journals you
  subscribe to and where they are?
• How much do you spend managing your electronic
  resources in comparison to the amount you spend
  on these resources?
• Does the amount of use of your electronic justify
  the amount spent on them?

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Whats important

• What is more important?
• Content?
• or realising the value of the content?

Both?
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The Solution
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The Solution
Help users find known items
Help users discover unknown items
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Products
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Searching for an online journal

• Ask the serials librarian
• Search multiple databases
• Search your website
• Use Google
• No idea
• Look on the shelf (oh really?)

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The serials solutions way
One link to all resources
Nursing homes
Title ISSN Dates URL
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Search by subject
Allows end users to find journals in a
particular field
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Customized E-journal Portal
Hosted by Serials Solutions
Library-specific branding links
Title searching
Title browsing
Subject browsing
Direct database access
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Journal Linker an OpenURL link resolver

• Link from an abstract, index or citation to the
  full-text of the journal, anywhere in your
  collection.
• Links from within the referring database -- the
  primary benefit of OpenURL resolvers
• Most affordable link resolver

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Article Linker
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Problem
User is in an AI database and finds an article
that they want to read, but the full-text is not
available.
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What happens next

• Log out of the database and start search again
• Use Google
• Ask you where to find it
• Give up and go home
• All this is very frustrating

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Article Linker solves this
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User Experience Results Page
User is taken to results page, where they can
quickly and easily see all of their options for
accessing the full text of their desired article.
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User Experience Linking to Full-Text Article
user is taken to the article of their choice, in
the database of their choice.
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From the AI to the full text
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Products
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A Full MARC Records solution
Given the following premises,
the solution is obvious
E-journals should be included in the OPAC.
E-journal climate is too dynamic for standard
practices.
You need a realistic solution for including
e-journals in your OPAC.

• Up to 85 of journals not in OPAC
• Ignored and underused by patrons
• Patrons are frustrated

• Constant changes to db content
• Added titles
• Changed titles
• URL structures
• Holdings dates
• Embargos

• To tracks all changes
• To easily create, edit and customize records
• easily load records into local OPAC

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A Truly Painful Process
To incorporate you electronic serials into your
OPAC . . .

• Manually assemble the thousand of data points
  that make up the librarys e-serial holding data
• Confirm that data, normalize the data with
  authority records
• Create a customized record template for the
  library
• Create an initial set of records for the library
  ILS
• Identify any changes which have occurred since
  the original shipment of records
• Edit and create new records to reflect those
  changes
• And then, finally load those records into the
  librarys ILS only to hope that the meta data
  provided is accurate

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Full MARC Records Challenges Solved
Challenges addressed by Full MARC Records
service

• Almost impossible to maintain all e-serials in
  catalog

• Search for serials in OPAC delivers unreliable
  answer /- 80 of the time

• Under-use of librarys full-text electronic
  resources

• OPAC no longer displays entire collection

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Key Features of Full MARC Records

• MARC21
• Library of congress (Conser)
• Best holdings data
• 100 coverage
• Virtually unlimited customization
• In use with all major OPACs
• Only widely installed solution
• Dramatically reduce workload
• ? E-serials in the catalog a reality

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Reduce workload on library
Serials Solutions answer is MARC records

• Serials Solutions delivers easiest and most
  efficient method for including all electronic
  serials in the library catalog
• All holdings management and cataloging done by
  Serials solutions
• New subscribers can be up and running in under
  two weeks (depends on library decision making
  time)

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Real World Workload Example

• The Library
• Over 12,000 full text electronic journals
• On one of their most recent updates they had
• 150 new records
• 4000 changed records
• and 25 deleted records . . .

. . . using the Serials Solutions Full MARC
Record Updating service took her 45 minutes to
load all these updates. Without this service and
the utility it provides, this would be
unthinkable for this library to try on it's own.
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Detailed Record Options

• CONSER Records
• 900,000 holdings in Serials Solutions database
• Best available Bibliographic source
• Updated weekly
• Non-CONSER Records
• Fills in gaps in CONSER coverage
• Records from third party sources, including Gale,
  Ulrichs and others.
• Accurate overlay when a CONSER record becomes
  available

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Brief Records Options
Brief MARC records deliver 100 journal coverage

• Serials Solutions creates brief MARC records for
  titles when there is not a CONSER or other record
  available
• Information includes title, ISSN (if available),
  holdings dates, URL and provider name.
• You can customize the 655 Field to read
  Electronic Journals.

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Most Widely Installed Solution . . .

• Serials Solutions MARC records are in use with
• Innovative Interfaces
• Endeavor
• SIRSI
• DRA
• Ex Libris
• Dynix
• VTLS
• others

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EJAMS, AL and MARC

• Help users find known items
• Increase usage of your serials
• EJAMS is free if you purchase any other product
• Data is the most accurate
• Reduce workload in your library
• High value but low cost
• Print holdings can be added
• A print out of all your holdings can be ordered
  and kept in the library
• Data can be provided to you in a spreadsheet

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Federated searching
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Problems

• Students are lazy
• Most students are Google generation and want to
  find answers with only search
• Google is in the public domain and results are
  not from trusted sources
• Some databases are not used
• Databases are usually only searched one at a time
• Each database requires separate training

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Solution

• Central Search is a good solution to many of
  these problems
• Searches using
• Z39.50
• XML gateways
• Other methods

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Central Search
Free trade agreement
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Robust Results Handling

• Sort by Date, Title, Author, and Source
• View results of a single source
• Refine searches
• De-duplication of records (Title, Vol, issue,
  year, and ISSN)
• Includes links to full text

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Powerful Advanced Searching . . .
Advanced Search
Limit searches to specific fields including
title, abstract, and full-text
Drop-down query builder allows less experienced
patrons to get accurate results
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Exporting Results

• Select individual or all records to export
• Export to HTML or plain text
• Support for e-mail and bibliographic citation
  management software (RefWorks, End Note, ProCite)
  in development

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Fact

• Loughborough University implemented a federated
  search solution and in one year the use of
  electronic resources increased 730
• Central Search can be installed in your library
  in 4-6 weeks.
• No technical knowledge is needed
• Serials Solutions implement and maintain the
  service
• There are maintenance costs

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• Thanks - Any Questions?