MetaLib and SFX: The Library Portal and Link Server from Ex Libris

MetaLib and SFX: The Library Portal and Link Server

from Ex Libris

Tamar SadehMarketing Manager

Tallinn, September 2005

MetaLib and SFX

MetaLib and SFX: Current Status

SFX origins: a research project at the Ghent University, Belgium conducted by Herbert Van de Sompel; collaborating with Ex Libris

MetaLib origins: a research project at the KOBV consortium in Germany; collaborating with Ex Libris

First live SFX system: April 2001 at Caltech, USA

First live MetaLib system: November 2001 at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

MetaLib and SFX

MetaLib and SFX: Current Status

Today: almost 900 customers in 37 countries

58% non-ALEPH sites

68% consortia members

OpenURL approved as a NISO standard (Z39.88)

MetaLib and SFX

New Challenges

Institutions offer a wide range of electronic resources:

Individual e-journals

Packages of e-journals

Abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases

Local repositories

Subject gateways

Other Web sites

These need to be efficiently managed and offered to end users

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User’s Concerns

Where do I look for information?

How do I get access to licensed resources?

How do I make a query?

How do I get accurate results?

How do I compare lists of results?

How do I navigate to related resources?

How do I obtain the actual materials?

How do I maintain my environment and manage my findings?

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What is MetaLib?

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MetaLib offers you

Resource discovery and access

Metasearching across heterogeneous resources, simultaneously

My Library Portal

SFX, delivering context-sensitive services

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My Library Portal

Personal resource lists

Personal eShelf with multiple folders

Personal e-journal list

Personal query list (history)

Personal alerts

Personal preferences

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A&I

e-print

Full Text

Citations Web

eTOC

OPAC

Portals

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Non context-sensitive Limited in scope:

types of extended services

action radius of links

Closed

e-print

Full TextA&I

Citations

Web

The “appropriate copy” problem

Constraints of Previous Linking Frameworks

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History of Linking Source

T a r g e t s

OpenURL

Linking Server

Context

A p p r o p r i a t e T a r g e t s

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The SFX Flow

SFX Source SFX Menu SFX Target

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Step 1: An OpenURL generated by the source and sent to the link server http://sfx.mycollege.edu?genre=article&atitle=The deterrence hypothesis and picking pockets at the pickpockets hanging&title=American Law and Economics&issn=1465-7252& date=2002&volume=4&issue=2&spage=295&aulast=Anderson&aufirst=David

Step 2: The link server (at sfx.mycollege.edu) extracts metadata from the OpenURL

Author: Anderson, DavidTitle: The deterrence hypothesis and picking pockets at the pickpockets

hanging Journal: American Law and EconomicsISSN: 1465-7252Date: 2002Volume: 4Issue: 2Page: 295

Step 2: The link server (at sfx.mycollege.edu) extracts metadata from the OpenURL

Author: Anderson, DavidTitle: The deterrence hypothesis and picking pockets at the pickpockets

hanging Journal: American Law and EconomicsISSN: 1465-7252Date: 2002Volume: 4Issue: 2Page: 295

Step 3: The link server:

matches data elements against the link server's knowledge base,

determines the appropriate services,

computes the links,

and displays the menu

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SFX Target:

Supports deep linking to provide, for instance:

SFX Source:

Supports the OpenURL.

Enables the generation of extended services by the SFX server at the user’s institution.

arXiv.org, EBSCO, ISI WoS, IOP, ProQuest, Ovid, SilverPlatter ERL, OCLC FirstSearch, Elsevier ScienceDirect

Full text of an article Holdings information Document delivery form

Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Highwire, Kluwer, Springer, Swets, Wiley

Ex Libris ALEPH 500, III Innovative, Endeavor Voyager, SIRSI Unicorn, LIBRIS Union Catalog

The British Library, InfoTrieve, IBID

SFX Sources versus SFX Targets

www.exlibrisgroup.com

Book reviews

Amazon.com; Syndetics

MetaLib and SFX

Coverage (September 1, 2005): 454,290 journal titles, of which 32,684 are unique e-journal titles; 384,758 individual e-journal portfolios;171,975 e-books; 1028 targets (946 provide full text)

Rules: predefined rules (thresholds) and localized rules for fine-tuning

Tools: Web-based tools for management Statistics and reports: usage of resources and

services Updates: central KnowledgeBase maintained by

Ex Libris; automated updates

The SFX Knowledge Base

MARCit!

SFX Knowledge Base

Library Catalogue

Unmediated DocDel requests

Tool for VLE

SFX Menu

Journal Title List

Citation Linker

Library Portal

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Installation: Solaris or Linux (on site) or hosted

Training: 2 days for SFX; 3 days for MetaLib

Localization:

KnowledgeBase

Branding

Integration with local environment: authentication system, ILL or Document delivery system, proxy server, course management systems

Configuration of additional resources and services

Implementation of SFX and MetaLib

MetaLib and SFX

Thank you!

Tamar [email protected]