Managing SFX: Collaboration between ILTS & E-Collections
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Managing SFX: Collaboration between ILTS & E-Collections
Nisa Bakkalbasi
Electronic Collections Librarian
Este Pope
Systems Librarian
CDC MeetingYale University Library
February 22, 2007
Today’s Talk
What is SFX? Who uses it and why? How is it managed?
What is SFX
Generically referred as “context-sensitive link server.”
SFX is the proprietary name devised by ExLibris.
We renamed it “Yale Links.”
It starts in a database…
How it works?Source window
Services window
Target window
Service menu: we have it in full text!
Service menu: we don’t have it in full text!
More than full text …
Bringing Google users back to the library collection
Number of requests and clickthroughs
From January 1, 2007 to February 17, 2007:
There have been 106,333 requests and 78,328 clickthroughs.
Number of requests per source: PubMed 26,428 OVID Medline16,885 EBSCO 13,423 Web of Science 10,169 Google Scholar 9,028
Most popular journals
Billboard (13,424) The New England journal of medicine (846) Science (789) Journal of the American Chemical Society
(723) Nature (668) JAMA (597)
Number of clickthroughs per target
E-Journals lookup (10,793) Orbis lookup (7,698) EbscoHost Academic Search Premier (7,529) Elsevier Freedom Collection (7,476) Ovid Journals (4,297)
A shared responsibility
Systems Librarian
Service menu configurations and
look and feel
Systems Programmer
Server and software maintenance
Electronic Collections Librarian
Knowledgebase managementand target issues
ILTS and E-collections signs a contract - May 2006
E-Collections Manage contents of the database. Respond to forwarded target error/repair issues. Create documentation and provide training for the
knowledge base maintenance team. ILTS
Monthly updates, software updates, upgrades Troubleshooting problem reports Interface configuration, enhancements
Please forward all Yale Links questions to Este and Nisa.
Thank you!