Bibliographic Services
Users Council, May 9, 2008
Patti Martin
Director, Bibliographic Services
Bibliographic Services
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Melvyl
UC-eLinks
Metalib
Request
Next Generation UC/OCLC pilot project
Melvyl
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Completed our upgrade to V16.02
Working on backlog of records to load
Added links to Google Book Search
API
UC-eLinks
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Rebecca Doherty joined as Project
Manager
Margery Tibbetts
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ELUNA 2008 annual meeting planning
committee co-chair
NISO/UKSG KBART (Knowledge Base
and Related Tools) working group
Adam Brin will be joining in June
UC-eLinks
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July 2007 New, cleaner menu window layout
Nov. 2007 Assessment of new UC-eLinks
menu window
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Recommendation to support Direct Linking to
articles
Development is currently underway
Dec 2007 UC-eLinks in MELVYL
UC-eLinks
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9 of 10 campuses now using the A-Z
list for primary eJournal discovery tool
Peak usage in March was over 1.1M
requests
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Last fall was 44,000/day
UC-eLinks menu window
Current version
Old version
Coming to UC-eLinks
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E-books
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Google Book target
New eScholarship journals target
WCL holdings targets
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Targets for each campus instance
Metalib Project
Women in US Social Movements
Pilot Application
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Search resources simultaneously
User selects resources to search from portal
Listed resources pre-selected for topic
Additional Features:
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Full text links when available
Ability to save records for export (Print, Email,
EndNote, Zotero)
Faceted browsing of results
User Testing
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Usability assessment by graduate students
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Comparison
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Pilot
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Native Databases
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Google Scholar
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Conducted By UCLA
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Results to be included in Pilot Evaluation –
soon!
Request Achievements
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Sherry Willhite is the Project Manager
Nov 2007 - Revised Request handling
of missing items
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Endusers can ask for items that appear
to be available at the home campus, but
which are not actually available
Request Achievements
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Increases in security of data
transmissions
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Dec 2007 Request began running under
https
Jan 2008 - Access to the “My ILL
Requests” service limited to UC IP
addresses in Jan 2008.
Users must login from on campus or via
their campus proxy or VPN service
Request Achievements
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Statistics enhancements
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Feb 2008 Statistics for My ILL Requests
became available
March 2008 Web-based ILL statistics
reporting system with output in HTML
Jan 2008 - UCB began borrowing on
VDX
Request - Coming Soon
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VDX document server hosted at CDL to
provide better integration of desk top
delivery with VDX.
Move to VDX version 3.2.2
VDX statistics - new software program.
Integration of the Request Service with
the WorldCat Local pilot
UC-OCLC Pilot History
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University Librarians charged BSTF
Team in 2005
2005 BSTF produced report in
December 2006 – UC wide discussion
2007 – ULs charged Exec/Imp Team
2008 – Next Gen Pilot goes Live!
Why OCLC?
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Moving discovery beyond the local
level to the network level
Allow users to discover resources
beyond our consortial level
Scope down to the regional, union
view, or local
Database size – 100+ M records,
growing 10M/year
What Will the Pilot Look Like?
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Based on Worldcat Local
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Pilot available soon!
Continuous development
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10 UC branded URLs
1 Melvyl branded URL
At least one upgrade during the pilot
Links to local OPACS for circ/location
information
Affiliates and Non-UC Libraries
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Working out how the affiliated libraries
can participate
Non-UC libraries will show up in the
“WorldCat” section of results for now
To make a final decision
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Will be involved in decision making
about their options
Could be cost implications
WCL – Limits
WCL – Digital Content
WCL – Delivery Features
WCL Identities
WCL - Interface
Best Source for More
Information
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http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/
about/uc_oclc.html