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Loughborough – the facts! 13,500 students 2,800 staff serials – 4000 print, over 6000
electronic books – over 400,000 databases – over 200
E-resources earning their keep what e-resources?
e-journals and databases monitor usage statistics
& value for money promotion
database of the month training sessions
and now…MetaLib!
Portals JISC describes portals as:“a network service that brings together
content from diverse distributed resources using technologies such as cross-searching, harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an amalgamated form for presentation to the user.”
Commercial portals offer: grouping of databases simultaneous searching(through Z39.50, web scraping and
xml) collation of results de-duplicating links to full text
Some commercial portals DigitaLink / iPac (Epixtech) ENCompass (Endeavour) Rooms (SIRSI) MetaLib (ExLibris) Millennium Access Plus (MAP) Portal
(Innovative) TalisPrism (Talis) ZPORTAL (Fretwell-Downing)
OpenURL is a linking technology & a protocol for
interoperability between services hotlinks from databases leads a
user to appropriate full text resources
Portals and linking at Loughborough MetaLib
portal of all our databases simultaneous searching of compliant
databases
SFX openURL links article records to library
catalogue and/or e-journals
Implementation of MetaLib & SFX
large team approach Systems, Support Services & Academic
Librarians
long time scale March – September
smaller, separate team implemented SFX
Discussions look and feel branding contents (electronic & print) authentication (VLE username &
password) Library’s web pages (which should
exist) information skills
Cataloguing & configuring
cataloguing easy form driven quality & content testing
configuration not so easy who should configure?
technical staff / academic librarians how many databases are cross
searchable?
Pilot and “live” piloted with 3 Academic
Departments focus groups Questionnaire positive feedback
“live” in September 2002 smaller MetaLib group (four people) on average half a day per week
What has it meant for the Library?
role of library staff very little change
enquiries are often easier to answer training simpler
Handout http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/dbase/metalib.html
Online tutorial http://inhale.hud.ac.uk/perl/jump.pl?13-56
increased use of databases
Statistics increase in usage of databases
609%
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
1st Q 2nd Q 3rd Q 4th Q
20012002
Statistics by database usage up
Zetoc 1385%SportDiscus 1207%ICEA 225%INSPEC 73%OCLC 79%ABES 36%IBSS 31%Beilstein
23%
usage downPsycinfo -
63%Lexis-Nexis -51%Mintel -36%RAPRA -31%UKOP -6%Art Abstracts -12%Compendex -4%
Top ten databases in 2003June July August September October
ArticleFirst Zetoc ArticleFirst ArticleFirst ArticleFirst
Zetoc ArticleFirst Zetoc Zetoc Zetoc
IBSS IBSS IBSS IBSS Ante
OPAC ASSIA ASSIA ABM IBSS
Ante Ante Ante OPAC ASSIA
ASSIA OPAC OPAC Ante OPAC
Compendex Inspec Inspec ASSIA Inspec
Inspec Compendex Compendex Inspec SportDiscus
BHI SportDiscus BHI Ceramic Abs Medline
Medline Medline SportDiscus Compendex BioSci
Comp & Info Eng Mat Medline Medline Compendex
BioSci Polymer Polymer SportDiscus Comp & Info
What does MetaLib mean to our readers?
students less reliance on Google? cross searchable versus
most appropriate?
researchers & academics using MetaLib cross
search more than anticipated
The future investigate:
usage statistics for e-journals searching behaviour of readers
incorporate new features of MetaLib e-journals
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