The portal within the portal: electronic library services within an institutional portal environment Stephen Pinfield & Mike Gardner
What makes an e-library? Content Metadata Services
What makes an e-library? e-books local online catalogue reading lists e-prints digital objects pushed data/alerts exam papers e-journals databases catalogues e-theses
e-libraries: the point Enabling users to get content… …in order to enhance the learning experience or the research process
What makes a portal? Single Sign-On Personalisation Integration / One-Stop Shop
e-library components e-books local online catalogue reading lists e-prints digital objects pushed data/alerts exam papers e-journals databases catalogues e-theses
e-library components Catalogue Reading Lists Alerts Exam Papers Library Portal Full Text OpenURL Z39.50 OAI-PMH Z39.50 Institutional Portal / VLE?
Information gateway tab
Library portal: MetaLib Single Sign-On –Luminis CPIP (Campus Pipeline Integration Protocol) technology
Normal Authentication Browser No cookie so send login MetaLib server Authenticate Send cookie Got cookie so send page Login Page 2 Username / password Page 1 Cookie Request Page 2 (with cookie) Request Page 1
CPIP Authentication Browser (Portal) CPIP Connector Page 1 CPIP Servlet MetaLib server Authenticate Send cookie Username / password Cookie Request Page 1 (with cookie) Request Page 1 Luminis Username / password Got cookie so send page
Library portal: MetaLib Single Sign-On –Luminis CPIP technology Personalisation –Personal resource lists
Biology resources
Library portal: MetaLib Single Sign-On –Luminis CPIP technology Personalisation –Personal resource lists Integration –Metasearching –Linking
SFX links to full text
Library portal: MetaLib Single Sign-On –Luminis CPIP technology Personalisation –Personal resource lists Integration –Metasearching –Linking Integration –Metasearching –Linking –Institutional portal my datasets my e-journals?
What makes a portal? Single Sign-On Personalisation Integration / One-Stop Shop
Single Sign-On Not library catalogue Alerts ATHENS?
Alerts
Personalisation My Library record in institutional portal My modules –My Reading lists –VLE modules –Exam papers?
Links from courses
Integration Library catalogue –Data input from MetaLib
Links to e-journals
Integration Library catalogue –Data input from MetaLib Reading lists –Linking to Library catalogue / full text
Reading Lists links
Integration Library catalogue –Data input from MetaLib Reading lists –Linking to Library catalogue / full text Alerts –Linking using SFX
Alerts + SFX links
Next steps IS Direct – online support services VLEs and the e-library Embedding information skills education Digital object management/re-use Developing the partnership: librarians, learning technologists, teachers