Scholars Portal : An Overview Leslie Weir University Librarian, University of Ottawa January 26, 2006
Scholars Portal is … a collection of content and a set of integrated services to allow researchers to BROWSE, SEARCH, SAVE and REQUEST scholarly articles in a uniform way, regardless of the publisher or the source of the resource
Science Server RACER / VDX RefWorks SFX / Get It! Scholars Portal Search Applications
Get It! Scholars Portal Search RefWorks RACER E-Journals Integration using standards- based linking, the services of the portal are integrated to support the workflow of researchers
External A & I Databases External Full-Text Resources Illumina RefWorks RACER E-Journals Get It! Integration resources available through the portal are closely integrated with resources and services of external providers
all resources and services are managed centrally but are presented to researchers as integrated components of each library’s own portal
Search Search dozens of the best bibliographic databases simultaneously
Search Results from all databases are presented as a single list with duplicates removed
Browse Browse 7,300 scholarly journals from 20 publishers
Browse Browse articles cited by and citing the current article
Associate Explore associations based on the research interests and institutional affiliation of authors
Locate Connect to full-text versions of 8.7M articles in the Scholars Portal collection
Locate Or connect to full-text articles from more than 400 scholarly publishers
Locate
Save Mark records and save them to personal folders in RefWorks
Organize Organize your citations into project folders
Share Share folders with colleagues, a class, or the world
Cite Create bibliographies and inline citations using one of hundreds of citation styles
Create Alerts Create n ew issue and subject alerts
Snaphot Metrics What can we measure? –Collections: growth, overlap, use, non-use –Service use: patterns, differences between schools –Demand: met and un-met –Users: demographics, interests Where do these stats come from? –Science Server download logs –SFX Collection Tool –SFX Statistics Tool –RefWorks Admin Tool –RACER Usage Stats –Illumina Logs
Local Load Update Academic Press Elsevier APA ACS Berkeley Cambridge Emerald Kluwer Oxford MUSE Springer Wiley Taylor and Francis SAGE Blackwell IEEE Royal Society of Chemistry Lippincott Current Collection Size: 7,375 Journals 8.7 million articles Current Collection Size: 7,375 Journals 8.7 million articles
Article Databases Done … Sage Abstract Journals Scholars Portal PsycCRITIQUES INSPEC and INSPEC Backfiles Wilson (ARA,HUM,SOC,AST) Iter To Do … ISI Century of Science Proquest EBSCO IEEE Conferences ?
Article Downloads
Download Geography
Top Ten Downloads
Un-met Demand
RefWorks Accounts
Citations Captured
RefWorks Users
Monthly Users & Sessions
RefShare Folders
Reason for Use
User Satisfaction
Questions ?