Programme Directors: Anne Bell (Kings College, London) for Docusend Peter Burnhill (EDINA) for X-grain & ZBLSA Malcolm Smith (British Library) for ZETOC Xgrain in Context: the JOIN-UP Programme

Why Link? Distributed National Electronic Resource (A concept being re-named) envisaged as: “A managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on the Internet which are available from many sources.” navigation aid adds value to content increases use of content: –good for publishers and subscribing institutions

Four User Verbs discover information object of interest e.g. an article found in an Abstract & Index databases (eg BIOSIS, INSPEC etc) or cited at the foot of an article locate a service offering the article e.g. a service giving electronic access to the full text of the article, or one’s own library having the volume on a shelf nearby request use of service via payment of money or privilege of membership: involves authorisation and authentication access (service on) object of interest i.e. consult article via online access (and print-out), personal visit or document delivery verbs based on MODELS workshops (UKOLN/JISC eLib)

JOIN-UP: a JISC 5/99 Cluster four projects: Docusend, Xgrain, ZBLSA & ZETOC focus on the infrastructure to link the discovery and location of journal articles and the like lead partners: King’s College London, EDINA, British Library initially conceived as four separate projects – three as proposals to the JISC 5/99 Call to create infrastructure for JISC DNER now ‘closely-clustered’ as JOIN-UP Programme working together to create the DNER infrastructure for journal articles & the like

From the JOIN-UP Vision... empower users to use e-info more effectively through ‘flat- seamed’ progression from discovery to access allow a variety of entry points while maintaining ‘flat-seamed’ service guarantee equity of provision through coverage of wide range of info domains and disciplines ……….. be a truly collaborative venture adopt common standards to assist technical and strategic interoperability of the component projects contribute towards the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the DNER by reducing wasteful duplication and sharing expertise

Tools for the User Verbs discover OPAC e-ToC union lists locate request access A&I ToC subject portal etc. authorisation/a uthentication local holdings e-subscriptions ILL, pay-per-view, other commercial transaction Other holdings (libraries, aggregators, publishers) Free (archive) services print/ e-text direct/document delivery local/remote physical/online

Four JOIN-UP Projects two initially conceived as ‘end-to-end’ services for document delivery –Docusend: integrating document delivery services –ZETOC: use of electronic table of contents, to alert & then to link to article delivery service two ‘functional brokers’: discover & locate –Xgrain: cross-searching A&I plus ToC databases with needs/habits of students in mind –ZBLSA: Z39.50 lightweight broker locating services on articles

Docusend provide locate, request and deliver functionality link document delivery to a number of JISC initiatives develop capability as national gateway for document delivery requests –via broker –via other locate and request services deliver journal articles in electronic format wherever possible user community: –initially library staff involved in document delivery –end users (subject to feasibility test)

ZBLSA - a ‘locate’ project Z39.50 (lightweight) Broker Locating Services on Articles aim: to investigate what is required of a locate broker for services on articles objective: to deliver a pilot facility during 2001 that meets needs of portals in the DNER input: reference to article + information on requester activity: locate services on article output: list of services ‘appropriate’ to requester

ZBLSA - a ‘Lightweight Locate Broker’ ZBLSA will not hold holdings information hold subscription information get involved in authorisation or authentication ZBLSA will aim to query services on articles –on what they hold –who subscribes to establish whether service is appropriate get the requester (user) in touch with the appropriate service(s) based on result of query

ZETOC enhance Z39.50 interface to BL’s ETOC data provide set of enriched alerting services based on BL’s ETOC provide document ordering from the interface provide variety of document delivery options integrate BL within the DNER user community: intermediates & end users in UK HE development plans based on consultation with groups such as SCURL, specific focus groups and market research

Portals: Projects: Rights: Medium: Geography: Sources: Desk top Local Inst. Subject RDN Other ZETOC X-Grain ZBLSA DOCUSEND SubscriberNon-Subscriber Print Electronic Local Remote OPAC Aggregator/ Publisher Union List Document Delivery Service MyLibrary ThatLibrary Joined-Up View: Discover - Locate - Request - Access

Docusend, Xgrain, ZBLSA in the DNER

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