MeL Databases: New Gems and Trusted Standards

MeL Databases: New Gems and Trusted StandardsMLA, 2007Sheryl Mase, Library of MichiganSuzanne Robinson, Michigan Library Consortium

The Michigan eLibrary

“MeL

mel.org

MeL Coordination at LM

All things MeL! Public relations & marketing Oversight of MLC support contracts III and database contracts User interface modifications New development

http://michigan.gov/mel

Visit the MeL information website for marketing tools, sample presentations, contact information and more…

You can download various PowerPoint presentations designed for the public, legislators, and other interested parties.

Michigan eLibrary

Evaluated Best Web Sites Includes Michigan Educators’ Resources

(MER) Statewide Library Catalog

Resource sharing system with statewide delivery

Research Databases Available for free to Michigan residents 24/7

MeL Michigana Statewide digitization and local history

projects

MeL by the Numbers

Michiganians ordered 19,791,087 articles during fiscal year 2004-2005. If charged an average commercial fee of $15.00 per article, the cost to residents would have exceeded $2.96 billion.

More MeL by the Numbers

In 2006, MeL databases cost $3.9 million

In 2006, if every school, public library, college and university had purchased these databases separately it would have cost over $193 million

Add 7 million items to your library! Over 24 million items are available in

MeLCat; 7.69 million are unique titles So far in ’07 weekly requests average

7,136 In 2006 MeLCat delivered 184,786

items, as of mid-October ’07, MeL has delivered 281,756 items (89.2% fill rate)

MeL is funded via LSTA $$$ The Library Services and Technology Act

(LSTA) is administered by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

The Library of Michigan uses LSTA funds for MeL and MeLCat as well as other statewide projects and subgrants

Training and Support

Contract with Michigan Library Consortium

Support: Kelly Bayee, Suzanne Robinson,

Heather Thomas: Training

Database Updates and Info

Suzanne Robinson, Michigan Library Consortium Talking very fast!

Gale enhancements mid-August

Search Alerts with RSS export: Set up instant search alerts and journal alerts, with the added ability to create RSS feeds of InfoTrac content.

Did You Mean?/Also Try: When a search fails to bring desired results, users are given alternate spellings and preferred search terms to find appropriate results.

Search Within Results: Dynamically refine search results to pinpoint specific information by adding or excluding more terms to queries.

More enhancements

Enhanced Limiting: After a search is completed, the left sidebar will provide users with the option of selecting subject terms, subdivisions, article types and publications to allow further limiting of results.

Enhanced Navigation: Based on feedback, changes have been made to improve the interface navigation, including the creation of document tools (print, email, cite, download, translate) that appear in a visible TOOL BOX on each document.

Enhanced Tabs: The number of results now will appear on each tab, and color variation will be added to the tabs to signify more content behind the other tabs.

More…

Enhanced Bookmarks: Direct access to individual documents, searches and collections of documents will be made available through PowerSearch BOOKMARKS, which are clearly visible, easy to use, and always persistent.

Improved "How-to-Cite" Functionality: MLA and APA formats for citations will be provided, with accurate elements, correct spacing and formatting.

Publication Details: More information about each publication will be provided, including embargo periods, publisher address and contact information, and publication descriptions

New Gale Common Menu (soon)

This is what you see if you do a “change databases” click…

…or if you point to the Gale menu on your own page

Gale Cengage Learning-New Databases

Business and Company ASAP Business and Company Resource

Center ChiltonLibrary.com Educator’s Reference Complete Informe! Onefiles and Powerpacks

Largest business databaseIn MeL

Replaces K12Professional

Collection – moreinclusive

Spanish LanguagesSources

Don’t forgetto

Refresh!

Need AcrobatReader

Gale OneFiles

General OneFile Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile General interest news sources

Academic OneFile Highly academic journal sources Growing weekly

Overlapping of content

Academic OneFile10,500 titles60% Unique

General OneFile11,472 titles60% Unique

Expanded Academic4803 titles

GRC Gold4981 titles

Academic Journals General Magazines

Powerpacks

Small, subject-focused Cross-searchable on Gale

PowerSearch By mid-November, will be “databases” MeL Support staff can provide direct

URL’s for those who want them mel.org – deciding how to incorporate

OCLC

CAMIO -- different interface, new accounts Hand Press Book

FS interface History of Science, Technology and Medicine

(HSTM) FS interface

SCIPIO Art and Rare Book Sales Catalog FS interface

GONE: Classe Periodica, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst

Ebsco – new MeL vendor!

CINAHL Basic

NoveList

CINAHL Basic

Return of same database we had before but now from EBSCO

Limited full text 70 nursing journals

Thousands of citations

NoveList

New

For readers of ALL ages

For library staff and educators

WONDERFUL!

New from ProQuest

HeritageQuest Online

SIRS Renaissance

Gone: Ancestry Library Edition

Search eachsection

separately

Familiar gems

SIRS Discoverer General Reference Center Gold Gale Virtual Reference Center Health and Wellness Resource Center InfoBits WilsonSelectPlus

General Reference Center Gold

Great general coverage

Good for just about any student, faculty

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

10 titles

Easy to search

Good stuff!

WilsonSelectPlus

Wide coverage – science, humanities, education, and business

Full Text

PDF or HTML

Good for better readers, faculty

MeL Featured Resources

Electronic Journals List

Michigan Educators’ Resources Don’t miss it!