Enhanced Navigation Implementation Group Presentation at All Staff Meeting June 26, 2002

1. Enhanced Navigation Implementation Group Presentation at All Staff Meeting June 26, 2002 

2. Current tools for Search(ing), Discovery & Delivery of Information Resources • Barton OPAC • VERA • Native search engines - electronic databases • Known citation searching in e-journals

3.  Growing E-resources Collection • Databases (281) & e-journals (3989) in VERA • 447 new titles in Vera in the last 6 months! • 8000+ e-journals in aggregator packages accessible through BELL • Several hundred e-books through Barton • Percentage of collections $$ up from 6% in FY93 to 24% in FY01

4. Users Deliriously Happy?? Maybe not! • Confusion about options: • Which databases to use? • How to find full text? • How many steps needed to find something?

5. Users Deliriously Happy?? …cont. • “Missing links” – moving between resources now is often cumbersome • Local set up of links to full text proved inefficient & difficult to maintain • contacting many separate vendors • discovering new titles added to packages • Perhaps “Enhanced Navigation” tools will • help us … ?

6. Web pages Barton Library services Databases Full text resources

7. Membership of Enhanced Navigation Implementation Project Team (ENAV) Joan Kolias, Co-chair Marilyn McSweeney, Co-chair Ellen Duranceau Marlene Manoff Nicole Hennig Beth Siers Carl Jones Howard Silver

8. ENAV Project Goals • Explore how to increase searching options and improved linking to full text • Learn the potential and staffing requirements of the SFX & MetaLib tools • Investigate these tools through a controlled pilot limited to two subject areas: biomaterials & contemporary issues • Report findings to Carol & MacKenzie, 7/02

9. SFX – Linking Power • Seamless linking from citation to: • full text • other services, if no full text • SFX buttons appear after we activate databases & e-journals • Standardized tool to set up links & get updates from publishers/vendors • Statistical reports about local use

10. MetaLib – Search & Discovery • MetaLib –a search interface to help choose databases • Finding databases • Categories • “Locate Resource” • Searching databases • Simultaneously across multiple databases, or, • Directly link to the native search engine • Links utilizing SFX

12. Finding full text: current environment Find citation in database Full text article

13. Finding full text: current environment Find citation in database L Full text article

14. Finding full text: using SFX Find citation in database SFX Full text article

27. Links where you need them Web pages Barton Library services Databases Full text resources

28. Metadata Integration Enhanced Navigation

29. Classic Search Engine

30. Find Databases – “Categories” or Search - “Locate Resources”

31. Select Databases and Search Terms

32. Search Hit Results Summary

33. Results List for ProQuest

34. Full Record for ProQuest

35. SFX Related Link to Full Text

36. Full Text Article

37. MetaLib and theDatabase Discovery Tool

38. Beyond subject headings… How can we help our users choose appropriate databases from more than 250 possibilities?

39. Database Discovery Tool Prototype Locate Resources Out of the box

44. To implement: • Customize some MetaLib screens • Create new metadata to describe characteristics for the Database Discovery Tool • Establish metadata standards • Assign metadata to existing databases • Incorporate MetaLib into the workflow for new resources

45. Benefits for our users • Manages a confusing list of resources • Saves time locating appropriate resources • Emphasizes important resources • Enables cross-searching of a focused set of resources • Provides guidance when staff are not available

46. SFX & Metalib: Customization for MIT

47. Before After

49. standard button our button

50. FullText Finder Citation Linker