Owen Stephens

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SFX - A Users Perspective

• Owen Stephens
• RHUL
• owen.stephens_at_rhul.ac.uk

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Why SFX?

• Seamless experience for users
• Improve use of e-journals
• E-journal management

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SFX Implementation

• List of Sources
• List of Targets
• List of E-Journals
• With ISSNs

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SFX Implementation

• Training
• 2 days
• Resulted in fully working SFX Instance
• Localisation
• What targets to display
• Branding

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SFX Implementation

• Problems
• First update removed local settings
• Only took ½ day to implement again

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SFX Support

• E-mail Support from Ex Libris
• Prompt and helpful
• E-mail Support Lists
• Great community of users who are happy to share
  expertise
• SFX and Metalib User Group (SMUG)
• Twice yearly meeting (US and Europe)
• http//www.smugnet.org

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SFX Sources

• E-Journal web pages
• Aleph (Library Catalogue)
• MetaLib (live from 08/09/03)
• Web of Science
• EBSCO Business Source Premier

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SFX Sources

• OCLC FirstSearch
• MLA
• RILM
• GeoRef
• ZETOC
• SwetsNet

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SFX Sources

• ScienceDirect
• SwetsWise
• JSTOR
• Institute of Physics
• ArXiv

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SFX Targets

• 42 Targets as of 1st September 2003
• Full text journal publishers and services
• ScienceDirect
• SwetsNet
• JSTOR (all available collections)

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SFX Targets

• Bibliographic Resources
• Local Library Catalogue (Aleph)
• Union Catalogues (COPAC, M25 Union List of
  Serials)
• Other Resources
• Internet Movie Database
• New Grove Dictionary of Music Online
• Resource Discovery Network

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SFX Developments

• Display Print Holdings in SFX Menu?
• OLIVE Project
• Investigating use of OpenURLs in a Virtual
  Learning Environment
• OpenURL as transport for non-bibliographic
  metadata (OpenURL v1.0)
• Reading Lists

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SFX Developments

• List of serial issues recently received
• Use SFX to link to Table of Contents Service
• Have a working example, but not yet launched

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SFX - A Users Perspective

• Owen Stephens
• RHUL
• owen.stephens_at_rhul.ac.uk