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Services E-Journals A collection of 13.1 million articles from 8,500 scholarly journals Single search of content from 18 commercial publishers Full-text includes PDF for all publishers and XML for three publishers Slide 2 Slide 3 Growth of Resources 2002 2007 Slide 4 Use of Resources 2002 2007 Electronic journals are a superb resource. I find most of my primary reference material with the aid of such databases. The list of ejournals is impressive and makes my job of bibliographic searching and obtaining reprints for the research scientist I work for much easier and timely. Slide 5 Current Practice - Ingest Data is received from publishers in packages organized by title and issue Packages consists of SGML/XML article headers and full-text XML/PDF Data is extracted and stored on the server Slide 6 Publishers Slide 7 How we Compare Slide 8 Distribution of Articles by Year of Publication Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Slide 14 Services E-Journals RACER / VDX A shared ILL/DD system for 19 schools Supports ISO protocol messaging for borrowing and lending Z39.50 based searching of OPACs for automatic creation of rotas Used to support intra- library document delivery Slide 15 Slide 16 Use RACER Borrowing & Lending About 3 M borrowing and lending requests processed Slide 17 RACER Usage Slide 18 Services E-Journals RACER / VDX Scholars Portal Search A local implementation of Proquests Illumina platform A mirror of Proquest content Locally loaded databases from 8 publishers including ISI, Gale, Wilson, Elsevier Single search of over 150 million abstracts and full-text records in 130 databases Slide 19 Slide 20 Content 190 million citations 130 research databases Mix of Proquest and 3 rd Party databases loaded by Scholars Portal Our solution for federated searching Slide 21 Use Scholars Portal Search Slide 22 Services E-Journals RACER / VDX Scholars Portal Search RefWorks A local implementation of the Refworks citation management service Supports 37 schools across Canada as well as the 20 OCUL schools Over 180,000 accounts and over 100,000 logins per month during peak periods Slide 23 Slide 24 Use 1,269,860 sessions over last 14 months RefWorks Usage Slide 25 Services E-Journals RACER / VDX Scholars Portal Search RefWorks SFX / GetIt OpenURL resolver services for 20 OCUL libraries A shared instance for managing consortial products Individual instances for each school Supports A-Z lists for E- Journals Slide 26 Slide 27 Use SFX Menus and Click-thrus Slide 28 Services E-Journals RACER / VDX Scholars Portal Search RefWorks SFX / GetIt Verde ERM Electronic Resource Management tool Based on DLF ERMI data and workflow model A central instance for managing consortial licenses Synchronized knowledge base with SFX Slide 29 Slide 30 ODESI Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative StatsCan, Gallup, and public domain data files Metadata markup based on DDI (Data Documentaiton Initiative) End-user access via Nesstar data publishing platform Slide 31 Slide 32 E-Books Implementation of a local delivery platform for electronic books Content will come from commercial publishers and open access sources such as the Open Content Alliance / Internet Archive Start-up goal of 150,000 e-books Slide 33 Slide 34 Ontario university libraries spend in FY 2006-07 Slide 35 Digital v. Print in 2006-07 Estimate Spend on Digital in 2007-08 is 60% Slide 36 Governance Slide 37