Primary funding is provided by the JISC and ESRC. Based at Manchester Computing, The University of Manchester. 1 1 SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community Ross MacIntyre

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October SFX ‘Talking Shop’ June 2002 Implementors –London Business School, U.Loughborough, Royal Holloway - U.London, U.East Anglia, U.Westminster [& AstraZeneca] SFX Hosting Institution –MIMAS (U.Manchester) Evaluators –U.Bradford, King’s College London, U.Manchester, U.Plymouth External Evaluator –U.Loughborough

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October London Business School Limited source to LBS ‘Faculty Publications’ database Want to go straight to full-text Quiet rollout Plan to use SFX as an ‘Article Finder’ to replace their JournalFinder application Parallel SFX servers

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October University of Loughborough Aleph site – SFX & Metalib licenced Go-live for new academic year 2002/3 – Metalib ‘loud’ & SFX ‘quiet’ Setting up sources more tedious & complex than expected Sorting out holdings data (local control numbers not ISSNs, aggregator lists, etc) Full text priority – all targets available to Loughborough added

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October U of East Anglia Purchased SFX with Aleph & Metalib 3 week implementation (“too quick!”) Feb 2002 All sources possible, targets limited to major ‘bundled’ deals – ‘slowly & accurately’ Maintain own ‘master list’ of e-jnl holdings – concerns over accuracy of KB Want to populate Aleph with data from SFX

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October Royal Holloway, U of London Aleph site – SFX natural choice To increase use of e-jnls & help with e-jnl management Licenced April 2001 went live in October (quietly) Activated all targets which include e-jnls, all relevant library catalogues SFX as resource discovery tool – Internet Movie Db, New Grove Dict of Music Focus of training for students for Oct 2002 Future – integrate with ILL, local target of stock location, more resource discovery.

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October U of Westminster Aleph customer Improve access to e-jnls & remove links from library records Installed Sept 2001, go-live Feb 2002 (quietly) Significant effort to set up – no detailed holdings records, KB discrepancies CrossRef service too slow Want Aleph consistent with SFX

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October MIMAS, National Academic Data Centre,UK Creating multiple instances National Default Resolver service –Evaluated by Plymouth & King’s College Hosted instances –For U of Manchester & Bradford Shared server Compare with other OpenURL resolvers External evaluation

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October MIMAS, National Academic Data Centre,UK Installation performed by MIMAS National Default Resolver –Source: #1 = ISI Web of Science (but all active) –Targets: Free full-text, free Abstracts/ToC, ‘ac.uk’ widely-used (WoS, JSTOR & COPAC) & general services (FAQ & Feedback) Hosted Instances –Bradford live –Manchester still checking SFX s/w & KB updates problematic

SFX Implementation in the UK Academic Community, SMUG Paris 3 rd October Summary Ex Libris should be ‘in the loop’ with software/journal providers and institutions –SFX support and KB inaccuracies Aleph/Metalib/SFX consistency Subject classification within KB? Customer-led prioritisation of future Sources & Targets Distinguish SFX from OpenURL standard

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