Prof. Purísima Centeno Alayónhttp://uprrp.academia.edu/PuraCenteno

The Development of an Online Serials Publication Service with SubjectsPlus

Open Source Software for the Natural Science Community, at the

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

Background• Academic library specialized in natural sciences• Support graduated and subgraduated curricula• Serves more than 3,000 students and over 200

professors• Scientific journals are the more important resource for this

community• CITec provides more than 5,000 titles in relevant

temathics in pure sciences

Situation• Since 2006, a list about journals from databases and

independent sellers were shown in a webpage athttp://bcn.uprrp.edu

• That list, called in a webpage Lista de Revistas A-Z, takes a long time to be updated because it includes more than 5,000 titles.

• Updated list in Frontpage sent to web master to become part of the webpage

• The process took months, and, sometimes, some information were not currently.

• Users can find errors because of changes in database or journals subscriptions affecting the service

Situation

Receive dataPut together in a listSent to webmaster

Webmaster create pages

Appears in webpage

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Methodology

• Workplan based in ADDIE process model

• Software solution to add, update or delete data about

natural sciences journals and show in the webpage, in

real time

• New titles

• Edited titles

Analysis and DesignADDIE: methodology used for instructional design. Each letter represent a step for analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation.

• Analysis• Considered statistics of service and comments from audience and employees

• Found that the process to update information could make it imprecisely

• Software solution were considered because of capability to see changes in real time

• SubjectsPlus, from Ithaca College, were selected because is free to use and to customize

• Design• A prototipe was installed to make tests. During this step, the software is adapted to

the information needs identified in Analysis step.

• Two interfaces were considered in Design step: A to Z journals and acces to journals through disciplines

Development, Implementation and Evaluation

• Development• Three employees worked in the project: Mr. Víctor Soto, auxiliary librarian; Mrs.

Xiangqing Zhu, web manager, and Prof. Purísima Centeno, responsible for the initiative • Software installation requires

• MySQL, PHP and JavaScript• Activities consisted in data entry, customization of software and project supervision

• Implementation• Since september 2013, it were used to enter data from over 5,000 titles.• On January 2014, URL were shared with some professors and students to obtain

recommendations (enlace (http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php)• Google Analytics script was integrated in webpage to obtain statisctis of use.

• Evaluation• Continuos process that consider employees and academic community comments• User statistics• Through link checker tool provided by SubjectPlus software

Standarized information for titles

Title• With url if available

Volume• Vol. 26-49

Year• 2000-2011

Name before

• Before: Genetic Analysis Techniques and Applications

Change to• Change to: Biomolecular Engineering

Note• Classification number

A to Z list

Before After

Now:letter J page

Journals by Discipline

Before After

http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php

New Aspects

Journals Searcher Updated disciplines

http://bcn.uprrp.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/BCN_Guide.php

New Aspects

Search by format Search by discipline

SubjectPlus: platformFormat selection Disciplines selection

Teamwork

ProgrammerMrs. Xiangqing Zhu

Auxiliary LibrarianSr. Víctor SotoLibrarian

Prof. Pura Centeno