Building Communities that Transcend Jurisdictional and Regional Barriers Cynthia Archer Chair of the

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Building Communities thatTranscend
Jurisdictional andRegional Barriers Cynthia
ArcherChair of the Ontario Council of University
Librariescarcher_at_yorku.caCLA Ottawa June 16
2006
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Ontario Council of University Libraries

• Who we are
• What we did
• Where we are going

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Ontario Council of University Libraries

• Established 1967
• Purpose Member libraries cooperate to enhance
  information services through resource sharing,
  collective purchasing, document delivery and many
  other similar activities
• 20 University library systems
• Oldest and largest established in 1827
• 60,000 students
• Newest smallest established in 2003
• 900 students.

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OCUL Long history of cooperation and sharing

• Long history of cooperation and sharing
• 1967 Inter-university Transit System IUTS
• 1970 Inter-Library Loan
• 1974 Inter-university Borrowing Project (IUBP)
• 1980 Preservation and Restoration
• 1981 Consortium of Ontario Academic Health
  Libraires
• 1995 OCUL Information Resources consortia (
  25M)
• 1999 Ontario Innovative Initiative (7.6M)
• Scholars Portal 2.0
• Common philosophy One library cannot fulfill the
  needs of all its faculty and graduate students.

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Forces of change

• Source of funding
• Economic issues
• Library review program
• Internet and electronic journals
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation
• Canadian National Site License Project (Canadian
  Knowledge Research Network)

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Transformation

• Ontario Innovative Infrastructure
• Provide equitable access to materials for
  researchers, regardless of location and size of
  institution by reducing their reliance on the
  declining availability of materials in local
  print collections
• Aggregate buying power and influence
• Provide long-term secure archiving

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Transformation

• Ontario Innovative Infrastructure
• Mitigate financial risks associated with
  large-scale transformation to new models of
  scholarly communication
• Enable Ontario researchers to easily access and
  effectively use the information resources in a
  manner that informs and inspires teaching,
  learning and research
• Provide an environment that fosters innovation in
  response to the needs of the users

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Applications

• Science Server
• RACER / VDX
• RefWorks
• SFX / Get It!
• Scholars Portal Search

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all resources and services are managed centrally
but are presented to researchers as integrated
components of each librarys own portal
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Scholars Portal Databases

• CSA
• PsycINFO
• ERIC
• Medline
• ASFA
• ECONLIT
• Sociological Abstracts
• MLA
• PAIS
• Ageline
• AGRICOLA
• ARTBibliographies Modern
• ASSIA
• British Humanities Index
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Design and Applied Arts Index
• GEOREF

• OCUL
• E-Journals _at_ Scholars Portal
• PsycCRITIQUES
• INSPEC (Engineering)
• Arts Abstracts
• Humanities Abstracts
• Social Science Abstracts
• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
• Iter
• Proquest 5000
• Readers Guide
• Business Abstracts
• Digital Dissertations
• Education Abstracts
• ISI Century of Science
• IEEE Conferences

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Search

• Search dozens of the best bibliographic databases
  simultaneously

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Search

• Results from all databases are presented as a
  single list with duplicates removed

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Locate

• Connect to full-text versions of 9.7M articles in
  the Scholars Portal collection

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Citations Available
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Archiving

• Scholars Portal
• Store the files in non-proprietary formats that
  could be easily transferred and used should the
  participating library decide to change its
  archives of record
• Tracks all changes in publisher data formats and
  stores all DTDs and Schemas so that data can be
  converted from source files at any time

• Binary files (e.g. PDFs) are not locked and
  data can be extracted from them using any number
  of tools

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Titles Loaded

• 2002-2004
• Academic Press
• Elsevier
• APA
• ACS
• Berkeley
• Cambridge
• Emerald
• Kluwer
• Oxford
• MUSE
• Springer
• Wiley

• 2004-2005
• Taylor and Francis
• SAGE
• Blackwell
• IEEE
• 2006
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Lippincott
• American Institute of Physics

Current Collection Size 7,600 Journals 9.7
million articles
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Browse

• Browse over 7,500 scholarly journals from 20
  publishers

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Create Alerts

• Create new issue and subject alerts

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Article Downloads
15 Million Articles Downloaded Since July 2002
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Reason for Use
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RefWorks

• Mark save records in Refworks folders

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RefWorks

• Share with colleagues, a class, or the world

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RefWorks Accounts
13,000 regular users 60,000 user sessions per
month 2.2 M managed references
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RefWorks Users
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RefWorks Users
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New Directions
Ebook Archive
Researcher Librarian Portal
Electronic Resource Management Verde
Scholars Portal 2.0
Usability
Mark Logic XML Repository
Multisearch Federated Search
Statistics Portal
iTunes podcasting lectures
Shibboleth Pilot
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Virtual reference Wikis Blogs Tagging
Researchers worldwide GWDB
Archives Museum Libraries
School, College, Public University Libraries
Universities Ontario Government
Libraries, Publishers, Research Communities
Libraries, Researchers, Government
Merlot and Chloe - International