Scholars Portal

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Scholars Portal

• An Update for COPPUL
• Leslie Weir
• University of Ottawa / Université dOttawa

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Core Goal

• To make scholarly resources easier to find and
  use --
• How? By making it simpler to
• search many databases at once
• link to electronic versions of articles
• capture and cite electronic articles
• request articles from print collections in other
  libraries

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Core Services

• Search Scholars Portal Search E-Journals _at_
  Scholars Portal
• Link Get It! (SFX)
• Cite RefWorks
• Request RACER

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Scholars Portal SearchCSA Illumina

• single search interface to mirrored CSA databases
  and locally loaded databases licensed by OCUL
• agreements have been reached wth ISI, INSPEC,
  Wilson, APA, Sage, EBSCO, and Proquest
• 20 new databases with many others to come

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E-Journals _at_ Scholars PortalElsevier Science
Server

• browse and search 7,300 journals from 17
  publishers
• 8.5 million articles
• growing backfile coverage
• 10 million article downloads since 2002

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Get It!SFX from Ex Libris

• local installation of SFX with one shared and 20
  site instances
• connects citations to full-text
• will connect to RACER when full-text not
  available
• Add to RefWorks option for all citations
• connects Scholars Portal resources with external
  resources

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RefWorks

• web-based citation management system
• local installation serving all Ontario
  universities
• a universal citation shopping cart with
  extensive input and output formats
• RefShare module supports public folders for
  collaboration

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RACERVDX Fretwell-Downing

• shared inter-library loan management system based
  on VDX
• end-user request management
• Z39.50 union catalogue

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How it all Fits Together
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Isnt that a lot like

• Scholars Portal
• Scholars Portal Search
• Get It! and RACER
• RefWorks

• reSearcher
• dbWiz
• GODOT CUFTS
• Citation Manager

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Different Approaches

• Scholars Portal
• local loading of content
• aggregated searching
• commercial
• software
• shared
• infrastructure

• reSearcher
• remote access to content
• federated
• searching
• locally developed software
• distributed infrastructure

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Measuring Success

• Collection Growth
• Increased Usage
• Culture of Collaboration

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Collection Growth
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E-Journal Use
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E-Journal Use
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Comments from Users
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Current Challenges

• Operational
• Moving from project to core program
• Cultural / Political
• Positioning and branding of services within local
  library portals
• Technical
• Aggregated vs. federated searching - which model
  makes sense?
• Strategic
• Expanding and extending services to other sectors
  in and outside Ontario - finding a business model
  that makes sense