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Help your users to discover your content

Help your users to discover your content. With OpenAthens & Link Resolvers. Lyn Norris. What is OpenAthens?. Username password system Can integrate with Active Directory or portal Recognised by all major publishers Designed for librarians Remote access system for librarians

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Help your users to discover your content

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  1. Help your users to discover your content With OpenAthens & Link Resolvers Lyn Norris

  2. What is OpenAthens? • Username password system • Can integrate with Active Directory or portal • Recognised by all major publishers • Designed for librarians • Remote access system for librarians • IP independent subscriber definition • Categorised statistics

  3. Libraries purchase OpenAthens because: • No IT support at all • Need library website & user management • Can install & run it from the library • Remote access • No IT support to run EZproxy or VPN • Access to network from offsite not permitted • IP topology doesn’t match their subscriber base • large organisations with a single IP address range • US Dept of Defence; Dept of Veterans Affairs, hospital groups • Want granular statistics of usage • Abbott Labs, BP

  4. MyAthens – internet portal

  5. Email your users • OpenAthens users are self-selected • Users created on demand • Manually, from spreadsheets, from self registration • Generate email lists • Inform them of your resources • Offer training sessions

  6. Resources – available to patrons off-site • But patrons don’t understand ‘resources’ • Where to find a particular journal • Maybe journals or ebooks would be better • Journal A-Z

  7. Hand crafted journal list

  8. EBSCO A-Z list – with IP & Athens links

  9. What about search? • Multiple publisher platforms, all with individual search • Users want to search across them all • Library options are Google Scholar & PubMed • Journal article information • Need associated link resolvers

  10. Link Resolvers • Libraries can buy access to the same journal from different platforms • Direct from publishers • Or from an aggregator like Ovid, EBSCO or Ingenta • Link Resolvers route the user to the appropriate copy for his library • Examples: • EBSCO’s Link Source • TDNET’s link resolver • SFX • Serials Solutions • Need to be configured for the library’s collection • And their authentication routes

  11. Quosa document delivery • New product from Elsevier • Corporate clients with document delivery accounts • Quosa intercepts doc del requests from link resolver • Checks against already purchased articles • Only then sends request to doc del service

  12. Discovery Services • EBSCO Discovery • Serials Solutions Summon • Take knowledge of your collection • Run searches across your collection • Use link resolvers to take user to appropriate copies

  13. Help users to discover your collection • OpenAthens for remote access & Internet portal • Publicise resources on portal • Journal A-Z for journal discovery • Link Resolvers hooked into PubMed & Google Scholar • Get more usage from your subscriptions

  14. Thank you

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