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!
