ELIN: Electronic Library Information Navigator

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ELIN Electronic Library Information Navigator

• Ian Mayfield
• University of Portsmouth
• Linda Humphreys
• University of Bath

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What is ELIN?

• ELIN provides our users with a simple and quick
  system for finding
• E-books
• E-journals
• Articles
• Library databases
• Websites

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What is ELIN?

• ELIN is NOT a federated search solution
• Developed by University of Lund
• Extensive agreements with publishers article
  metadata from gt14,400 journals
• Upload book and journal records from OPAC, SFX
  etc.
• Manually add and edit records if required

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Why did we choose ELIN?

• Library OPAC does not provide access to journal
  articles
• Library OPAC does not provide sufficient browsing
  facilities
• Need for simple alternative to Google
• Bibliographic databases can be complex
• Issues with federated search solutions

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Demonstration

• ELIN at Portsmouth

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Advantages of ELIN

• Up and running instantly
• Very simple to use
• Searching is quicker than with federated search
• Global search
• Single list of results
• Can restrict search to subscribed content
• Alerting
• My collection
• Full local control house style

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Issues with ELIN

• University-produced and supported
• Lack of documentation
• Updating
• Lacking some article metadata
• By subject lists are difficult to manage

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Comments from users (Bath)

• it is often difficult to find the best article
  as the key words I type seem to confuse the
  system
• does not allow for the slightest spelling error
• should be able to search by abbreviated journal
  title
• can't get at articles in several journals,
  especially from some time ago
• sometimes links dont work

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More comments from users

• quick and easy
• so easy to use! Doesnt need specialist
  knowledge to use it
• you can get full access to a lot of articles
  and you can save them in my collection
• a direct link to full text when Im working
  remotely
• everything is in one place
• I absolutely LOVE ELIN!

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Any questions?