Portals within portals Integration of SFX and Metalib with other products Mike Gardner.

Portals within portalsIntegration of SFX and Metalib

with other products

Mike Gardner

What makes a portal?

• Personalised Gateway

• Customisable

• Integration

• One-Stop Shop

• Single Sign-On

Institutional portal

• Personalised– My Modules

Institutional portal

• Personalised– My Modules

• Customisable – Add channels

Institutional portal

• Personalised– My Modules

• Customisable – Add channels

• Integration– Frame

Institutional portal

• Personalised– My Modules

• Customisable – Add channels

• Integration– Frame– Search

Institutional portal

• Personalised– My Modules

• Customisable – Add channels

• Integration– Frame– Search– Links to VLEs– SSO

Metalib

• Personalised– My Resources

• Customisable– My Resources

• Integration– Cross

searching

Integration

• How to integrate a Library Portal with an Institutional Portal ?– Single Sign On so seamless– Link from Institutional Portal to Library

Portal – Frame Library Portal within Institutional

Portal – Embed search facility from Library Portal

within Institutional Portal

Integration

• Metalib channel in Institutional Portal

eLibrary: Metalib + …

• OPAC (UNLOC)– My Library Record

• SFX– Metalib– OPAC– Reading Lists– Alerts (eg Pubmed Daily Updates)

• My eJournals ?– Metalib x-server version 3.13

Information gateway tab

My Library Record

SFX

Reading Lists links

Alerts + SFX links

Technology

• Portal: Luminis 3 (SCT) with CPIP SSO• My Library Record (loans & reservations)

– Aleph x-server (xml)

• My eJournals – Metalib x-server (xml)

• Reading Lists availability check– SFX API (xml)

• Links from Reading Lists to SFX– OpenURLs

• Pubmed Daily– Pubmed API and Hubmed RSS

Normal Authentication

Browser

No cookieso send login

Metalib server

AuthenticateSend cookie

Got cookieso send page

Login

Page 2

Username / password

Page 1 Cookie

Request Page 2 (with cookie)

Request Page 1

CPIP Authentication

Browser

(Portal)

CPIP Connector

Page 1

CPIP Servlet

Metalib server

AuthenticateSend cookie

Username/ password

Cookie

Request Page 1 (with cookie)

Request Page 1

Luminis

Username / password

Got cookieso send page

mike.gardner@nottingham.ac.uk

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazmjg/