Making Links with SFX

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Making Links with SFX

• creating a Scholars Portal for a province
• Mita Sen-Roy
• Leddy Library, University of Windsor for the
  Ontario Council of University Libraries
• June 10, 2005

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About OCUL

• OCUL is a consortium of twenty university
  libraries in the province of Ontario. The member
  libraries cooperate to enhance information
  services through resource sharing, collective
  purchasing, document delivery and many other
  similar activities
• FTE/Service Population Served 315,639

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About Scholars Portal

• The Scholarsportal.info Project is a cooperative
  venture, partly funded by the Ontario Innovation
  Infrastructure and Ontario Universities, to
  expand access to scholarly resources.
• Scholarsportal.info is comprised of a number of
  different components that are in the process of
  becoming integrated through SFX

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OSP Specs

• Hardware
• Sunfire 6800 Server configured into four domains
  each with 8-12 CPUs and 16-32 GB of memory
• IBM Network Storage Server with capacity for 50
  TB of data and high capacity robotic tape backup
  server
• Software
• ScienceServer (SS) / ENCompass for Journals
  OnSite (EJOS)
• SFX v 3.0
• CSA Illumina and RefWorks

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E-Journals Component

• Contains 7,770,006 articles from 6,957 full text
  journals published byAmerican Psychological
  Association, American Chemical Society, Berkeley
  Electronic Press, Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge
  University Press, Emerald Publishing, Elsevier
  Science Kluwer, Oxford University Press, Project
  MUSE, Sage Publications, Springer-Verlag, Taylor
  and Francis and John Wiley Sons
• Since 2002, over 10,300,000 articles have been
  downloaded from OSP

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Access across publishers.Archived for the
future.Allowed print cancellations.
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Next step loading indexes

• CSAs Illumina is the interface to allow
  federated searching of the online journal content
  hosted on OSP
• It will be a platform for searching locally
  loaded CSA indexes non-CSA indexes (Web of
  Science, INSPEC, PsycCRITIQUES, and many more to
  come)
• The Illumina user will never see the SS/EJOS
  interface and users browsing or accessing
  journals from A to Z lists or library catalogues
  will never see the Illumina interface linking
  is provided through SFX
• Goal is single search access to 100M articles

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• Rapid Access to Collections By Electronic
  Requesting
• End-user request management of ILL
• Side-result a Z39.50 union catalogue
• Utilizes Fretwell-Downing Informatics - VDX
  2.7.0.1 Release (Build 99)
• Not integrated into SFX but hopefully soon!

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• an Online Personal Database and Bibliography
  Creator from CSA
• RefShare adds collaborative dimension to building
  bibliographies
• Very well integrated with SFX theres RefWorks
  in SFX and SFX in RefWorks

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True Synergy Between RefWorks and SFX

• Users can create a dynamic to read list of
  articles and books from the library
• Researchers can now bookmark research - most
  of our OPACs and indexes are databases with user
  sessions that expire
• Faculty can share these bookmarks with students
  and as such create bibliographies or a course
  reading list without having to understand what
  an EZ proxy prefix is

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Other OSP Projects on the go

• O-Zone
• Runs on D-SPACE Institutional Repository Software
  from MIT
• Open Archive Initiative compliant
• Investigating the archiving of municipal and
  provincial documents
• CORIL
• Cooperative Online Repository for Information
  Literacy
• repository of instruction materials assessment
  tools

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Benefits weve experienced

• Full time staff dedicated to the set up and
  maintenance of OSP projects including SFX
• Costs savings through consortial purchase
• Local loading allows local customization
• Users who move within the province have familiar
  tools at their fingertips
• Shared interfaces means institutions can share
  product FAQs and instructional tools

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Making Links b/w Libraries

• The Making Links blog was created in September
  2004 to share information and to support
  librarians within the OCUL consortium who are
  adapting their library services to the
  technologies new to OCUL
• While listservs support implementers, the blog
  was to support public service librarians
• http//makinglinks.uwindsor.ca/
• I moderate the blog. Thats why Im here. But.

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...These people did all the work

• The Ontario Scholars Portal Project Team
• Alan Darnell, Project Manager
• Hana Alston, Client Services Librarian
• Vidhya Parthasarathy, Programmer / Analyst
• Amaz, Taufique, Systems Support Specialist
• Wei Zhao, Metadata Librarian
• Sue McGillivray, VDX Project Manager
• Agnes Bai, VDX Systems and Web Development
  Analyst
• Shane Chan, VDX Systems Administrator
• Amy Greenberg, VDX User Support Librarian
• Phil Springall, VDX User Support Librarian

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Thank you

• Mita Sen-RoyLeddy Library, University of
  Windsormsenroy_at_uwindsor.caThis presentation is
  available athttp//www.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/2
  002.nsf/Mita!OpenForm