Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries ELIN: Electronic Library Information Navigator Ian Mayfield.

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

ELIN: Electronic Library Information Navigator

Ian MayfieldUniversity of Portsmouth

Linda HumphreysUniversity of Bath

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

What is ELIN?

ELIN provides our users with a simple and quick system for finding:– E-books– E-journals– Articles– Library databases– Websites

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What is ELIN?

• ELIN is NOT a federated search solution

• Developed by University of Lund

• Extensive agreements with publishers: article metadata from >14,400 journals

• Upload book and journal records from OPAC, SFX etc.

• Manually add and edit records if required

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Why did we choose ELIN?

• Library OPAC does not provide access to journal articles

• Library OPAC does not provide sufficient browsing facilities

• Need for simple alternative to Google

• Bibliographic databases can be complex

• Issues with federated search solutions

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Demonstration:

ELIN at Portsmouth

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

Advantages of ELIN

• Up and running instantly • Very simple to use• Searching is quicker than with federated search• ‘Global’ search• Single list of results• Can restrict search to subscribed content• Alerting • ‘My collection’• Full local control: house style

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Issues with ELIN

• University-produced and supported

• Lack of documentation

• Updating

• Lacking some article metadata

• ‘By subject’ lists are difficult to manage

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Comments from users (Bath)

“it is often difficult to find the best article as the key words I type seem to confuse the system”

“does not allow for the slightest spelling error”

“should be able to search by abbreviated journal title”

“can't get at articles in several journals, especially from some time ago”

“sometimes links don’t work”

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More comments from users

“quick and easy”“so easy to use! Doesn’t need specialist

knowledge to use it”“ you can get full access to a lot of articles and you

can save them in my collection”“a direct link to full text when I’m working remotely”“everything is in one place”“I absolutely LOVE ELIN!”

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Any questions?