ANKOS Meeting17-18 June 2005

Sara Killingworth

Strategic Marketing Manager

Agenda

• Digital Commons– What is it?

• Serials Solutions– Overview of products and services

Digital CommonsSetting up your institutional repository

the easy way!

What are institutional repositories?• Online stores of information where an

institution can publish all its intellectual output to a global community

• Intellectual output might include papers, journal articles, presentations, audio and video files and any other item the institution wishes to include

• IRs are by definition “open access” enabling users around the world to access the information in the IR by searching using Google or other search engines

The Digital Commons Resource Overview

What is Digital Commons?

• Digital Commons is ProQuest’s Institutional Repository offering, powered by bepress

• Digital Commons is a ready-made platform into which institutions can load their own documents

• It includes a number of features to help the institution publish this information effectively

• ProQuest provides full support including set up, training, upgrades to the service and hosts the service on their servers.

• Full technical support is available

Architectural & Admin Features• Acceptance of a wide variety of publication types,

including:– Conference papers – Reports – Pre- and post-prints – Presentations – Dissertations – Video and audio files

• OAI compliant – documents can be immediately found in Google and other web search engines

• Full-text searching• Usage statistics at the publication and paper level

End-User Interface Features

• Email alerts for newly published content

• Saved Searches

• Generate bibliographies via export to bibliographic software

• Top repository downloads page

Publishing & Processing Features

• Automatic conversion of documents to PDF• Access/subscription control• Customized controlled-vocabulary picklists for

data entry• Branded publication sites for departments• Email interface between author and

publication administrator manages schedule and deadlines

• Monthly readership statistics emailed to authors

Stability & Portability• Service hosted by ProQuest at secure,

redundant ISPs• URLs are in institution’s domain

– Ex. http://digitalcommons.myuniv.edu• Upon termination, objects will be delivered for

import into a new repository– Currently supporting over 15 XML DTDs for

delivery including Dublin Core, OCLC, PubMed, AEA, Swets-Blackwell, Delimited, EndNote

Hosting Limitations• No Bepress customer has ever reached these

limits• Disk Usage

– Ten (10) gigabytes hard drive space included in the subscription.

• Bandwidth– Fifteen (15) gigabytes per month baseline.

• Dynamic Content (CGI) Hits– One hundred fifty thousand (150,000) per

month included. $1.00 per 1,000 hits thereafter

Serials Solutions The most comprehensive e-journal access solutions!

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Serials SolutionsComprehensive solutions for accessing & managing a library’s entire collection of

full-text, electronic serialsIncludes content available in aggregated

databases, publishers and subscriptions agents

E-Journal A.M.S. Enable efficient access and management of your e-journal collection

Patron-centric• E-Journal Portal• A-to-Z title list in multiple formats• Journal Linker• Title Searching• Subject Browsing• Ulrichsweb.com bi-directional

linking

Librarian-centric • Overlap Analysis• Library Data Customization• Usage Statistics

Customized E-journal Portal

Hosted by Serials Solutions

Library branding & links

Title searching

A- Z Title browsing

Subject browsing

Direct database access

Usage Stats: Search Stats

• See, in one easy-to-use place, what is being accessed by patrons

• Evaluate based upon institutional level access path

• Benchmarking to evaluate effectiveness of e-serial databases based upon usage across peer group libraries

Usage Stats: Click-Through Stats

Overlap AnalysisDetailed information about each database in your collection.Also shows how databases compare to each other.

Note how few unique titles are in this database – is it

worth its cost?

Article Linker

Patron Experience Using Article Linker

Patron clicks on “Search for full text” or “Article Linker.”

Patron Experience – Results Page

Patron selects a link to an article in a database.

Patron Experience – Linking to Full-Text Article

Full MARC Records

Full MARC Records Service – Why??• Almost impossible to maintain all e-serials in

catalog• Search for serials in OPAC delivers unreliable answer +/- 80% of the time

• OPAC no longer displays entire collection

• Under-use of library’s full-text electronic resources

The importance of electronic journals

Institutiontype

Avg number of print journals**

Avg number of electronic journals***

E-journals as percent of all

journals

Associate* (n=60) 874 5,617 86.5%

Baccalaureate* (n=60)

1,372 6,841 83.3%

Masters*(n=60)

3,178 7,910 71.3%

Doctoral*(n=30)

15,046 9,836 39.5%

Large publics (n=25) 3,529 6,362 64.3%

* per Carnegie Classification, 2000** greater of 1998 IPEDS or 2002 American Library Directory*** Serials Solutions data, September 2003

Detailed Record Options

CONSER Records• 900,000+ holdings in Serials Solution’s

database• Best available Bibliographic source• Updated weekly

Non-CONSER Records• Fills in gaps in CONSER coverage• Records from third party sources, including

Gale, Ulrichs and others. • Accurate overlay when a CONSER record

becomes available

Almost unlimited customizations to records

• Delete fields (010s, 042s, 510s, 530s, 533s, 852s, 853s, 863s; pseudo LC Call numbers; others)

• Edit fixed fields (006s, 007s, 008s)

• Add fields (440s, 655s, 710s, 949s; others)

• Customize fields (506s, 516s, 530s; others)

• Customize call numbers

• Add 856s that link to Article Linker

• Include proxy servers prefixes, library-specific URLs

Most Widely Installed Solution . . .

Serials Solutions MARC records are in use with:

•Innovative Interfaces•Endeavor•SIRSI•DRA•Ex Libris•Dynix•VTLS•others

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OPAC Local DB’sAggregated DB’sWeb Sites

User Interface

Search Results

Thank you!