The portal within the portal: electronic library services within an institutional portal environment

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The portal within the portal electronic library
services within an institutional portal
environment

• Stephen Pinfield Mike Gardner

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What makes an e-library?

• Content
• Metadata
• Services

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What makes an e-library?
e-books
e-journals
local online catalogue
catalogues
databases
reading lists
pushed data/alerts
exam papers
e-prints
digital objects
e-theses
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e-libraries the point

• Enabling users to get content
• in order to enhance the learning experience or
  the research process

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What makes a portal?

• Single Sign-On
• Personalisation
• Integration / One-Stop Shop

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e-library components
e-books
e-journals
local online catalogue
catalogues
databases
reading lists
pushed data/alerts
exam papers
e-prints
digital objects
e-theses
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e-library components
Z39.50 OAI-PMH
Z39.50
Catalogue
Library Portal
OpenURL
OpenURL
Full Text
OpenURL
Reading Lists
Alerts
OpenURL
Exam Papers
Institutional Portal
/ VLE?
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Information gateway tab
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Library portal MetaLib

• Single Sign-On
• Luminis CPIP (Campus Pipeline Integration
  Protocol) technology

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Normal Authentication
Browser
MetaLib server
Request Page 1
No cookieso send login
Login
Username / password
AuthenticateSend cookie
Page 1
Cookie
Request Page 2 (with cookie)
Got cookieso send page
Page 2
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CPIP Authentication
Browser (Portal)
MetaLib server
Luminis
Request Page 1
CPIP Servlet
Username / password
CPIP Connector
Username / password
AuthenticateSend cookie
Cookie
Request Page 1 (with cookie)
Got cookieso send page
Page 1
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Library portal MetaLib

• Single Sign-On
• Luminis CPIP technology
• Personalisation
• Personal resource lists

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Biology resources
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Library portal MetaLib

• Single Sign-On
• Luminis CPIP technology
• Personalisation
• Personal resource lists
• Integration
• Metasearching
• Linking

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SFX links to full text
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Library portal MetaLib

• Single Sign-On
• Luminis CPIP technology
• Personalisation
• Personal resource lists
• Integration
• Metasearching
• Linking
• Integration
• Metasearching
• Linking
• Institutional portal
• my datasets
• my e-journals?

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What makes a portal?

• Single Sign-On
• Personalisation
• Integration / One-Stop Shop

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Single Sign-On

• Not library catalogue
• Alerts
• ATHENS?

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Alerts
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Personalisation

• My Library record in institutional portal
• My modules
• My Reading lists
• VLE modules
• Exam papers?

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Links from courses
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Links from courses
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Integration

• Library catalogue
• Data input from MetaLib

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Links to e-journals
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Integration

• Library catalogue
• Data input from MetaLib
• Reading lists
• Linking to Library catalogue / full text

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Reading Lists links
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Integration

• Library catalogue
• Data input from MetaLib
• Reading lists
• Linking to Library catalogue / full text
• Alerts
• Linking using SFX

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Alerts SFX links
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Next steps

• IS Direct online support services
• VLEs and the e-library
• Embedding information skills education
• Digital object management/re-use
• Developing the partnership librarians, learning
  technologists, teachers

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• stephen.pinfield_at_nottingham.ac.uk
• mike.gardner_at_nottingham.ac.uk