Scholars Portal Project Ontario Council of University Libraries Scholars Portal in 2007 A Progress Report Leslie Weir Université d’Ottawa - University

Scholars Portal ProjectOntario Council of University Libraries

Scholars Portal in 2007Scholars Portal in 2007

A Progress ReportLeslie Weir

Université d’Ottawa - University of Ottawa

A Progress ReportLeslie Weir

Université d’Ottawa - University of Ottawa


What is Scholars Portal?What is Scholars Portal?

A cooperative project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries

A shared infrastructure for delivering electronic services to the 20 academic libraries in Ontario

A set of linked information and research services used daily by 380,000 students and researchers in the province


Our Core ServicesOur Core Services

E-Journals A collection of 12.6 million articles from 8,100 scholarly journals

Single search of content from 18 commercial publishers

Full-text includes PDF for all publishers and XML for three publishers



E-Journals RACER / VDX

A shared ILL/DD system for 19 schools

Supports ISO protocol messaging for borrowing and lending

Z39.50 based searching of OPACs for automatic creation of rotas

Used to support intra-library document delivery



E-Journals RACER / VDX Scholars Portal

Search

A local implementation of Proquest’s Illumina platform

A mirror of Proquest content

Locally loaded databases from 8 publishers including ISI, Gale, Wilson, Elsevier

Single search of over 150 million abstracts and full-text records in 130 databases




Search Refworks

A local implementation of the Refworks citation management service

Supports 37 schools across Canada as well as the 20 OCUL schools

Over 180,000 accounts and 100,000 logins per month during peak periods




Search Refworks SFX / GetIt

OpenURL resolver services for 20 OCUL libraries

A shared instance for managing consortial products

Individual instances for each school




Search Refworks SFX / GetIt Verde ERM

Electronic Resource Management tool

A central instance for managing consortial licenses

Synchronized knowledge base with SFX


New InitiativesNew Initiatives

Ongoing funding for core services is provided through member contributions

New initiatives are funded through an innovation reserve or with government grants and matching funds from OCUL

Two new initiatives have received funding from the province of Ontario in the amount of $1.5 million


ODESIODESI

Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative StatsCan, Gallup, and public domain data

files Metadata markup based on DDI (Data

Documentaiton Initiative) End-user access via Nesstar data

publishing platform


E-BooksE-Books

Implementation of a local delivery platform for electronic books

Content will come from commercial publishers and open access sources such as the Open Content Alliance

Start-up goal 100,000 e-books Selection of platform is currently in RFP

process


New E-Journals RepositoryNew E-Journals Repository

Migrating all E-Journals content to a new XML Content Management system based on Mark Logic

Publisher content will be converted to NIH Journal Archiving and Interchange format

Goals: enhanced searching and closer conformance to emerging standards for trusted digital repositories



Access ManagementAccess Management

Scholars Portal is active in support of a new Canadian Identity Management Framework (CIMF) based on Shibboleth

Piloted by 14 universities across Canada Scholars Portal services are seen as key

target services Shibboleth support will be added to all SP

services over the next 18 months


Other InitiativesOther Initiatives

End User Panels Will be based on Drupal Content Management

Systems and LimeSurvey Will allow for user registration, identification of

interest areas, periodic surveys Cross-service usage data

Combine usage information from all services into a single data analysis tool

Enhanced document delivery services, including “post to web”


Our GoalsOur Goals

Aggregation for Enhanced Access Secure Archiving Better Analysis of Use and Value Integration with Academic Technologies

and E-Learning Forge New Partnerships


Five Year Report CardFive Year Report Card

Aggregation for Enhanced Access Use of all systems has grown steadily Exceeds most commercial aggregator

services in terms of scope of content


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Secure Archiving Good effort at collecting content Need to clarify local load agreements to

define archiving rights Need to review repository management

practices against emerging standards for trusted digital repositories



Analysis of Use and Value Good grasp of use of individual systems

but should look at the bigger picture and look at usage across all systems

Need better tools to support this kind of analysis



Integration with Academic Technologies and E-Learning Good effort at integrating Scholars Portal

services with each other Needs to focus more on how to integrate

content with tools researchers and students are using, including Web 2.0 collaborative environments and courseware



Forging New Partnerships Good effort extending Refworks to schools

outside Ontario Has opened up opportunities for

cooperation with digitization projects such as Synergies

Needs to continue to look at how to play better with others across Canada and internationally

Documents

Scholars Portal Project Ontario Council of University Libraries Scholars Portal in 2007 A Progress Report Leslie Weir Université d’Ottawa - University