Tracking the Elusive Eresource

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• Marion C. Peters mpeters_at_library.ucla.edu
• Audrey M. Jackson ajackson_at_library.ucla.edu
• UCLA Science Engineering Library

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• E-resources
• We license them
• How do our users find them?

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• Emailed survey to three departments
• Bioengineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Chemistry Biochemistry

• Analyzed results
• Designed webpage
• Refined webpage

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• Summary of survey results for Question 4
• 4. To determine whether or not UCLA has access to
  an electronic journal, I prefer to search
  
• YES NO
• a) Eresources in Science Engineering
  20 17
• b) UCLA Eresources
  19 15
• c) Directory of CDL Licensed Content
  10 24
• d) UCLA Library Catalog "ONLINE ACCESS" link
  24 11
• e) Melvyl Catalog "Available Online" link
  18 17
• f) Google
  15 18
• g) other sites (please specify)
  
• 
  TOTALS 107 103
• TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS 66

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• Sites from Question 4
• EResources in Science Engineering         
• http//www.library.ucla.edu/etext/sciences/ejour
  nals
• UCLA EResources 
• http//www2.library.ucla.edu/search/eresources.c
  fm
• Directory of CDL Licensed Content 
• http//www.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/directory_search
• UCLA Library Catalog ONLINE ACCESS link 
• http//catalog.library.ucla.edu
• Melvyl Catalog Available online link        
         
• http//melvyl.cdlib.org                  
• Google
• http//www.google.com

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• Other Sites searched by Users
• Web of Science
• Pubmed
• SciFinder Scholar
• Biomed Library website
• IEEEXplore
• Google Scholar

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• survey gtgtgtgtgtwebpage

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Initial E-Resources Webpage
http//www.library.ucla.edu/sel/e-resources/text.h
tm
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• Re-designed initial webpage
• New webpage features
• http//www.library.ucla.edu/sel/e-resources
• - graphical links
• bulleted hints
• text version (initial webpage)
• Next steps
• - publicity
• - future enhancements

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