Managing SFX: Collaboration between ILTS & E-Collections

Nisa Bakkalbasi

Electronic Collections Librarian

Este Pope

Systems Librarian

CDC MeetingYale University Library

February 22, 2007

Today’s Talk

What is SFX? Who uses it and why? How is it managed?

What is SFX

Generically referred as “context-sensitive link server.”

SFX is the proprietary name devised by ExLibris.

We renamed it “Yale Links.”

It starts in a database…

How it works?Source window

Services window

Target window

Service menu: we have it in full text!

Service menu: we don’t have it in full text!

More than full text …

Bringing Google users back to the library collection

Number of requests and clickthroughs

From January 1, 2007 to February 17, 2007:

There have been 106,333 requests and 78,328 clickthroughs.

Number of requests per source: PubMed 26,428 OVID Medline16,885 EBSCO 13,423 Web of Science 10,169 Google Scholar 9,028

Most popular journals

Billboard (13,424) The New England journal of medicine (846) Science (789) Journal of the American Chemical Society

(723) Nature (668) JAMA (597)

Number of clickthroughs per target

E-Journals lookup (10,793) Orbis lookup (7,698) EbscoHost Academic Search Premier (7,529) Elsevier Freedom Collection (7,476) Ovid Journals (4,297)

A shared responsibility

Systems Librarian

Service menu configurations and

look and feel

Systems Programmer

Server and software maintenance

Electronic Collections Librarian

Knowledgebase managementand target issues

ILTS and E-collections signs a contract - May 2006

E-Collections Manage contents of the database. Respond to forwarded target error/repair issues. Create documentation and provide training for the

knowledge base maintenance team. ILTS

Monthly updates, software updates, upgrades Troubleshooting problem reports Interface configuration, enhancements

Please forward all Yale Links questions to Este and Nisa.

Thank you!