LinkFinderPlus at the University of Edinburgh – the story so far…… Liz Stevenson Edinburgh...

LinkFinderPlus at the University of Edinburgh –

the story so far……

Liz Stevenson

Edinburgh University Library

ENCompass

• Endeavor Information Systems Inc

• Purchased on behalf of the University of Edinburgh

• Joint purchase with the National Library of Scotland

ENCompass

Digital Collections: local collections – exam papers, finding aids, streaming video, teaching resources

Resource Access: federated searching of remote databases

LinkFinderPlus: OpenURL resolver

Implementation timetable

• Contract signed December 2002

• Project planning

• Project Team

• On site training: March 2003

• Installation and set up

Project Team: ENCompass

• Project management

• Metadata

• Interface design

• LinkFinderPlus

• Resources & Collections

• Liaison and Promotion

• Managing user expectations

Pilot project

• Exemplar site, selected data resources

• Subgroups

• User training

• On-going development issues

• Continually growing resources

LinkFinderPlus: Targets• Targets activated to date:

– SwetsWise– ScienceDirect– ingenta– JSTOR– Springer– Nature

LinkFinderPlus: Sources

• Test only– SwetsWise– FirstSearch– ScienceDirect

• September-October 2003Wider implementation

LinkFinderPlus: Sources

• Issues WOK & SwetsWise: compliant, but only SFX

button available

BIDS: only SilverPlatter services available

Linguistics Abstracts Online not compliant till 2004

Educational Research Abstracts Online not compliant

LinkFinderPlus

• Activation of multiple targets

• Accuracy of local holdings

• Accuracy of aggregators’ data

• Improved access to full text

• Choice of sources, if required

• Alternative services

LinkFinderPlus

• Split runs & Moving walls

• Maintenance

• Library Catalogue

• Web list

• Third party assistance?

LinkFinderPlus

• Interface

• Extended services

• Link wording

• Development work

• Staffing

The University of Edinburgh

Collections Gateway test site

http://morrigan.lib.ed.ac.uk:20008

Liz StevensonL.Stevenson@ed.ac.uk