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Find It! @ UWM Libraries

Find It! @ UWM Libraries. A guide to full text linking via SFX and a preview of MetaLib at UWM Libraries Andy Ritter and Kathy Bowes September 21, 2004. The dizzying array of web based resources. Library catalogs Abstract and index databases Full text databases

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Find It! @ UWM Libraries

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  1. Find It! @ UWM Libraries A guide to full text linking via SFX and a preview of MetaLib at UWM Libraries Andy Ritter and Kathy Bowes September 21, 2004

  2. The dizzying array of web based resources • Library catalogs • Abstract and index databases • Full text databases • Online journals and newspapers • Encyclopedias • Subject gateways • Web search engines • Local collections • Etc.

  3. Bottom Line: We know our users • Google

  4. CUWL 2001-03 Strategic Direction • “Provide a variety of research and searching tools to allow online catalog or web access to the breadth of digital information and identification of the broad array of locally owned paper and multimedia resources.”

  5. What is required? • Categorize and describe the many electronic resources for our users. • Help users discover resources and take advantage of expensive scholarly material. • Provide a google like “single search box” for retrieval. • Allow users to search relevant resources without always having to learn native interface or language yet retain powerful advance search functions. • Directly link users to electronic full text, local print or Interlibrary loan when necessary.

  6. CUWL Electronic Resource Management Task Force • Charged to evaluate and make recommendations on current marketplace for search retrieval software that was capable of fulfilling CUWL Strategic Direction. • 2003 Task Force followed through RFP process. • January 2004 Contracted with ExLibris for MetaLib and SFX software.

  7. The Product • MetaLib and SFX software hosted on a UW shared server located at UW-Madison. • Separate instances of the software is maintained for each UW Library and Colleges allowing each to maintain a local “look and feel.”

  8. SFX = Find It! • Based on the OpenURL standard adopted by an ever growing vendor base. • SFX software is a link resolver that accepts metadata (standardized data that identifies a resource) and builds a link directly to that resource in any external OpenURL enabled database or library system. • Central Knowledge base running behind the scenes contains library e-journal and subscription information as well as a set of rules that controls linking between resources. • Citatation Linker allows users to search Library e-journal subscriptions.

  9. A new way of search retrieval • Old Way: Search for a research article Check an index or holdings in local catalog Navigate to the resource and search again • New Way: Search for a research article FindIt!

  10. SFX = FindIt! Linking

  11. Two ways of accessing FindIt! • Search an OpenURL enabled resource and click the FindIt! button. • Search for e-journal holdings through Citation Linker.

  12. Not a perfect system yet…… • Not all databases support the Open URL technology. • Full text link leads to an error. • Missing data in Knowledge base. • Browser windows hiding behind one another. • ERIC documents with ED number are not reflected in the Find It! menu. • No Rush ILL services available via FindIt! menu.

  13. But things are getting better • More vendors adopting the Open URL standard. • Problem reports are going out to vendors and are being addressed in a timely manner. • Local batch imports into the Knowledge base will make citation linker and e-journal list more accurate over time. • Working closely with Atlas to get ILLIAD to work with Find It! • We need your help.

  14. FindIt! Information at UWM Libraries • Citation Linker http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ris/ejournals/ • FindIt! Help Library Guides http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ris/guides/findit/ • FindIt! Reported Problems http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ris/guides/findit/reportproblems.html

  15. MetaLib Meta searching Broadcast searching Federated searching Integrated searching Google like interface to search across any or all of our electronic resources in one click.

  16. MetaLib • Provides standardized user interface while searching multiple resources. • Allows library to group a wide variety of resources into categories relevant to user base. • Users can save searches and save links to resources for later use. • Future: inform a redesign of library web pages. • Target date: 04/05 Winter Staff testing, 05 Spring for Public

  17. Thank Yousfxteam@uwm.edu Thanks to Valerie Malzacher and Todd Digby for use of their presentation “ExLibris Library Portal and Linking Software” September 13, 2004

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