Natalia Litvinova Russian State Library [email protected]
Click here to load reader
description
Transcript of Natalia Litvinova Russian State Library [email protected]
Experiences on services enabling integration of electronic resources: A to Z (EBSCO) and
ScholarSFX (SFX Express with Google Scholar)
Natalia LitvinovaRussian State Library
IFLA Standing Committee on Acquisition and Collection Development Mid-term meeting, Granada, March 2007
Russian State Library
RSL Web site (English version)
Russian State Library collections
Collections in general
Grand total – 43.3 million unitsIncluding 12.6 million foreign documents
Collections by the kinds of publications
Books and pamphlets - 16.7 million itemsJournals – 12.9 million itemsSerials – 1.4 million items
Electronic resources generated by RSL
Grand Total – about 150 thousands items
Electronic library of digital dissertations –
115 thousands items
Digitized documents from RSL collections:- digitized within special projects (Memory of Russia, Meeting of Frontiers, Russian Literature Online etc.)- digitized for preservation purposes
Licensed Resources
47 packages- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- American Institute of Physics
- American Mathematical Society
- American Physical Society
- Blackwell Publishing
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
- Cambridge Journals Online
- Elsevier Economics Collection and Article Choice
Licensed Resources (continued)
- Emerald Management Extra
- IEEE Electronic Library
- Inspec
- Integrum Techno (Russian Journals)
- Oxford Journals Online
- Proquest 5000
- Sage Publications
- Springer Collections (Journals and E-books)
- Taylor & Francis Journals
and others
The Russian State Library users and staff need a Union list of titles from Licensed Resources.
From the year 2000 to 2006 we composed this list ourselves. The Procedure was as follows:- downloading title lists from vendors platforms
- importing the lists into Access database
- finding out and analyzing duplicate titles
- presenting the resulting list in HTML and putting it on Web site
The Union list on RSL Web site(before 2006)
The procedure was very time consuming
More important, the list should have been updated regularly because of changeable
nature of licensed resources, especially those of aggregators
Commercial systems
A to Z (EBSCO Industries) http://www.ebsco.com/atoz/default.asp
Serials Solutions (Proquest) http://www.serialssolutions.com
Journal Manager (TDNet) http://www.tdnet.com
Three steps of composing Union list in A to Z
The Resulting Union List
Title List Summary Total Resource Links: 69,458 Managed Resource Links: 65,816 Custom Resource Links: 3,642
Total Managed Packages: 26
* Unique Resources: 49,189 Unique Managed Resources: 47,886 Unique Custom Resources: 3,636
Total Custom Packages: 3
You can customize your site
A to Z provides powerful means of collection analysis
- by subject
- by usage (various statistical data)
- by overlap analysis
Analysis by subject
You can get various statistical data...
Overlap Analysis
Searching multiple resources one by one is uncomfortable. Our users want to search resources
simultaneously and get union lists of documents which have been found.
To do this, libraries use metasearch services (MS) and link resolvers (LR).
Metasearch services allow searching multiple resources.Link resolvers allow context-sensitive linking which enables getting full texts of documents from the resources library has
access to.
MS and LR are rather expensive. Libraries have to pay tens of thousands dollars for these services.
Google Scholar offers free metasearch service for scientific resources on the Web. Most academic publishers cooperate with Google in this project. Search results in Google Scholar are supplied with OpenURL links.
ScholarSFX is a kind of simple link resolver which allows a library to configure it to represent library holdings (resources available to this library)
ScholarSFX is offered free of charge to the members of Russian national consortium NEICON.
How it works
How links work
To make this working the Library administrator creates library profile in ScholarSFX
The main component of library profile is a set of target resources, that is, the resources library has access to (both licensed and open access resources).
The procedure of setting up target resources is similar to that of A to Z: library administrator chooses relevant resources from the list available in ScholarSFX
1. Choosing target resources
2. Choosing titles (titles available to RSL in American Institute of Physics package)
Changing coverage
Illustration of resolving links
Thank you for your attention
Muchas gracias!