1. River Campus Libraries Find Articles A Web Redesign for ENCompass David Lindahl Web Initiatives Manager River Campus Libraries University of Rochester

2. Web Design Process  Essential components  Style guidelines  Models for finding  Google  FRBR  Usability testing

3. Essential Components Page Design  List essential components  Prioritize  Simplify Overall Design  “Hide the technology”  Consistency with library website  Create task oriented pathways

4.  Universal Design  Section 508  Web Style Guide  Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines  Page Editors’ Checklist “Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” Ron Mace Style Guidelines http://www.section508.gov/ http://webstyleguide.com/ http://usability.gov/guidelines/ http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=623

5. Models For Finding: Google 1.Enter keywords 2.Browse results by title and snippet 3.View full text

6. Models For Finding: FRBR FRBR User Tasks  Find  Identify  Select  Acquire FRBR = Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records More information: http://www.ifla.org

7. Web Design Process: Find Articles “Find Articles” project  Ongoing project to address usability issues  Our implementation of meta-search with Encompass

8. Find Articles: Usability Issues  Choosing a database  Using a database  Expectations  OPAC versus database  Terminology

9. Find Articles: Meta-search What is meta-search?  Federated Search  Single user interface to multiple databases  Simultaneous searching across resources  Merged results

10. What the Libraries Did  Invested in meta-search technology  Selected SFX (Linking)  Selected Encompass (XML UI, Catalog integration)  Vendor partnership  Training  User interface development  Technology integration (CF, XML, SFX, SQL)

11. Encompass UI 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online

12. Encompass UI 1.Enter keywords and select databases 2.Select databases or “SHOW ALL” 3.Select a result 4.View metadata 5.Select a full text source 6.View full text online

13. Find Articles UI 1.Enter keywords 2.Select a result 3.View full text online

14. Find Articles UI Search Select Article Full Text (Gather) FRBR Tasks: Find Identify Select Acquire How our UI m

15. Meta-search Issues  Search full text or abstract  Get relevance sorted results and de-duping  How search terms are applied  How results are returned  Performance across many databases  Index vs. Meta-search  Connectors  One click to full text  Reliability

16. Find Articles: How It Works Search Select Article Full Text (Gather) Library Web Server ERA Server Subscription Database XSLT User Page with Full Text XSLT XML HTML

17. Linking To Full Text  Use RE to test input variables  Determine full-text available  Based on item type and database  Create canned URL  Double dip  Requires published or discovered syntax

18. Standards Matter  Z39.50  SRW/SRU and CQL  OpenURL  NISO MetaSearch Initiative  OAI

19. Find Articles: What’s Next  Subject clusters  Testing across range of users  Direct to full text  Abstracts on selection screen  Results navigator  Shared knowledge base  Integration with catalog

20. Find Articles: Subject Clusters  Subject Clusters  Pre-selected databases  Search boxes anywhere  Course Pages  Connects undergrads to library resources  Top-5 resource  Usability success  Add Subject Clusters to Course Pages

21. Web Design Process: Find Articles David Lindahl Web Initiatives Manager River Campus Libraries University of Rochester dlindahl@library.rochester.edu