1. Scholars Portal : An Overview Leslie Weir University Librarian, University of Ottawa January 26, 2006

2. 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

3.  Science Server  RACER / VDX  RefWorks  SFX / Get It!  Scholars Portal Search Applications

4. 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

5. 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

6. all resources and services are managed centrally but are presented to researchers as integrated components of each library’s own portal

7. Search  Search dozens of the best bibliographic databases simultaneously

8. Search  Results from all databases are presented as a single list with duplicates removed

9. Browse  Browse 7,300 scholarly journals from 20 publishers

10. Browse  Browse articles cited by and citing the current article

11. Associate  Explore associations based on the research interests and institutional affiliation of authors

12. Locate  Connect to full-text versions of 8.7M articles in the Scholars Portal collection

13. Locate  Or connect to full-text articles from more than 400 scholarly publishers

14. Locate

15. Save  Mark records and save them to personal folders in RefWorks

16. Organize  Organize your citations into project folders

17. Share  Share folders with colleagues, a class, or the world

18. Cite  Create bibliographies and inline citations using one of hundreds of citation styles

19. Create Alerts  Create n ew issue and subject alerts

20. 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

21. Local Load Update  2002-2004 Academic Press Elsevier APA ACS Berkeley Cambridge Emerald Kluwer Oxford MUSE Springer Wiley  2004-2005 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

22. Article Databases Done … Sage Abstract Journals E-Journals @ Scholars Portal PsycCRITIQUES INSPEC and INSPEC Backfiles Wilson (ARA,HUM,SOC,AST) Iter To Do …  ISI Century of Science  Proquest  EBSCO  IEEE Conferences ?

23. Article Downloads

24. Download Geography

25. Top Ten Downloads

26. Un-met Demand

27. RefWorks Accounts

28. Citations Captured

29. RefWorks Users

31. Monthly Users & Sessions

32. RefShare Folders

33. Reason for Use

34. User Satisfaction

35. Questions ?