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MetaLib - Making E-resources Earn Their Keep

MetaLib - Making E-resources Earn Their Keep. Frank Parry USTLG, Edinburgh 17 June 2004. 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?

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MetaLib - Making E-resources Earn Their Keep

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  1. MetaLib - Making E-resources Earn Their Keep Frank Parry USTLG, Edinburgh 17 June 2004

  2. Loughborough – the facts! • 13,500 students • 2,800 staff • serials – 4000 print, over 6000 electronic • books – over 400,000 • databases – over 200

  3. 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!

  4. 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.”

  5. Commercial portals offer: • grouping of databases • simultaneous searching (through Z39.50, web scraping and xml) • collation of results • de-duplicating • links to full text

  6. Some commercial portals • DigitaLink / iPac (Epixtech) • ENCompass (Endeavour) • Rooms (SIRSI) • MetaLib (ExLibris) • Millennium Access Plus (MAP) Portal (Innovative) • TalisPrism (Talis) • ZPORTAL (Fretwell-Downing)

  7. OpenURL is • a linking technology & a protocol for interoperability between services • hotlinks from databases leads a user to appropriate full text resources

  8. 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

  9. Implementation of MetaLib & SFX • large team approach • Systems, Support Services & Academic Librarians • long time scale • March – September • smaller, separate team implemented SFX

  10. Discussions • look and feel • branding • contents (electronic & print) • authentication (VLE username & password) • Library’s web pages (which should exist) • information skills

  11. 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?

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Statistics • increase in usage of databases • 609%

  15. usage up Zetoc 1385% SportDiscus 1207% ICEA 225% INSPEC 73% OCLC 79% ABES 36% IBSS 31% Beilstein 23% usage down Psycinfo -63% Lexis-Nexis -51% Mintel -36% RAPRA -31% UKOP -6% Art Abstracts -12% Compendex -4% Statistics by database

  16. June 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 Top ten databases in 2003

  17. 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

  18. The future • investigate: • usage statistics for e-journals • searching behaviour of readers • incorporate new features of MetaLib • e-journals

  19. Thanks…. Parts of this presentation were originally created for a conference paper delivered by Ruth Stubbings

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