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Title: Scholars Portal


1
Scholars Portal
  • An Update for COPPUL
  • Leslie Weir
  • University of Ottawa / Université dOttawa

2
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

3
Core Services
  • Search Scholars Portal Search E-Journals _at_
    Scholars Portal
  • Link Get It! (SFX)
  • Cite RefWorks
  • Request RACER

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
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

8
RACERVDX Fretwell-Downing
  • shared inter-library loan management system based
    on VDX
  • end-user request management
  • Z39.50 union catalogue

9
How it all Fits Together
10
Isnt that a lot like
  • Scholars Portal
  • Scholars Portal Search
  • Get It! and RACER
  • RefWorks
  • reSearcher
  • dbWiz
  • GODOT CUFTS
  • Citation Manager

11
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

12
Measuring Success
  • Collection Growth
  • Increased Usage
  • Culture of Collaboration

13
Collection Growth
14
E-Journal Use
15
E-Journal Use
16
Comments from Users
17
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
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