1. WISER Teaching: Electronic Resources in Teaching and Learning Angela Carritt Kate Alderson-Smith

2. Session Outline Existing gateways to e-resources Developments in e-resources over the coming year Promoting e-resources to your students –Linking reading lists –External access to e-resources –Training materials and opportunities –Fostering good practice –Materials for your Web site or VLE

3. Existing gateways & tools OLIS – http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ Oxlip – http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxliphttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip TD Net - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/tdnethttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/tdnet Tour -

4. OLIS Library catalogue for Oxford University Best way to find printed materials in Oxford Coverage of e-resources currently poor

5. Oxlip Gateway to online resources Subscription resources + some free resources Huge variety –Bibliographic information (e.g. indexes) / full text (e.g. online journal, e-books) / data (e.g. statistics), current awareness services (e.g. alerting) –Digitized texts / online print equivalent (e.g. journals) / e-only –Format? Web resource / CD ROM / third party software? –Access? - password? / external access?

6. Multi-disciplinary resources organised by genre Resources organised by subject All about Libraries A-Z of all resources

7. The history page on Oxlip has organised resources by genre

8. TD Net http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/tdnet Catalogue of online journals with links to full text Excellent resource for locating an online copy of a known journal title Not recommended for subject searching

9. E.g. TD Net Enter words from the journal title or browse the alphabetical list. Note: Search for journal titles NOT article titles Note: Do not use acronyms/abbreviations

10. Follow the links to the see the full text. Note date range

11. TOUR “Open URL resolver” Creates links from references to full text e.g. –title on TD Net to full text of the journal –article title returned by an indexing service to the full text on a different database (e.g. Web of Science link to JSTOR) –document on a reading list to the full text of that document TOUR links are now available from many of our bibliographic and indexing services (e.g. Web of Knowledge, Electronic Reference Library, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, many of the specialist indexing services) Look out for the icon

12. e.g. TOUR links on a results page in Web of Science

13. e.g. Having followed the link the user has a range of options for viewing the full text.

14. e.g. Full text on BioOne

15. Forthcoming developments…OLIS New version of OLIS –September 2006

16. Forthcoming developments…Meta-search engine Approx January 2007 Whole new approach to resource discovery and online searching Features include: Ability to search for databases/resources in a subject area (e.g. all the databases on US literature / human rights / plant genetics…) Cross searching of multiple e-resources simultaneously Some personalization (e.g. saved searches)

17. e.g. the Yale metasearch http://www.library.yale.edu/databases/

18. e.g. Yale University Metasearch engine

23. Promoting e-resources to students Linked reading lists Providing information –external access –training materials and opportunities Promoting e-resources through your web page or VLE

24. Linked reading lists Are they a good idea? Save time particularly for students on short intensive courses Students do not have to develop search skills which can disadvantage them later when they do research

25. Linked Reading Lists What can be linked? Books / print - holdings records on OLIS Full text online resources (e.g. journal articles, e-books, datasets) Local digitized materials

26. Example of a linked reading list for Competition Law Links to holding record on OLIS Links to full text on the Justis database

27. e.g. following the link to Whish takes the user to the holding record on OLIS

29. e.g. following the citation link takes the user to the full text on Justis

30. Linking to OLIS Easy to do - but wait for the new OLIS

31. Deep linking to journal articles, e-texts Most articles do not have the same URL every time Do not copy and paste URLs from your browser address bar into your reading list 3 solutions: –Some publishers provide a stable URL (a.k.a Static / Durable URL) this will always link to the correct place –Some publishers provide a tool which builds a URL incorporating a search query that will always link to the correct place –If the article is available on an indexing service which has TOUR links you can copy the URL from TOUR (e.g. right click on the TOUR icon and choose “copy shortcut”)

32. How to find out about deep linking? Go to the web page for the journal or publisher and look for links to Durable/Static/Stable URLs Use the help option and look for durable URLS / creating links / deep linking / information for librarians Ask your Librarian or the publisher (use contacts to find an e-mail address for their help line) If in doubt link to TD Net instead Course on reading lists Tue 13 Jun 12:30-13:30

33. e.g. finding a stable URL in JSTOR e.g. finding a stable URL on JSTOR

34. e.g. finding a stable URL in Periodicals Archive Online

35. Can I create digital copy for my students? Yes, but… Creation of digital copy is subject to UK © laws. Any extract that you want to digitise has to be –one chapter or less than 5% of a book. –one journal article or less than 5% of a journal issue. All scanned extracts must be © cleared (through the CLA or other third-party service) or be covered by a current licence. Digitised material needs to be housed securely [e.g. within VLE or some other password protected space] Processes involved can be costly, time-consuming and staff-intensive

36. Can I create digital copy for my students? Good news – the new CLA Digitisation Licence covers the digitising of UK texts to support teaching and learning within institutions that have signed up. Bad news – compliance to the licence will be monitored closely, with regular visits and a 6 th monthly audit. Bad news – US and other non-UK published material is not covered. Separate © clearance needs to be sought.

37. Can I create digital copy for my students? Still interested? WISER session will cover the new licence and talk in more detail about how to obtain copyright clearance on non-UK material. WISER Teaching : Copyright Law Tuesday, 6 June (7)

42. External access Most online resources are password free from within Oxford but not from outside Make sure your students know how to access materials when they are away from Oxford Information on Library and OUCS web sites

43. Access from outside Oxford Athens –Personal username and password –Gives access to many resources (but not everything) –Will probably not work for linked reading lists –http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/ VPN –Allows the user to join the Oxford network from outside –Access to everything as if the user is in Oxford –Username and password + software –http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/vpn/ Your subject library may have subject specific information on their web site

44. Training Make sure your students know about training opportunities Classes –OULS Information skills web site - http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/information_skills –OUCS - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/learning/ –Web pages or VLE pages produced by your subject library Self taught tutorials / user guides –Your subject library web site or VLE pages

45. Example of an Informs tutorial

46. Searching tips for students Think carefully about your search (what are the concepts involved, are there any synonyms / variant spellings, are there any meanings that they wish to exclude) Use connectors between searches (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR)

47. Boolean operators AND - search results must include all search terms e.g. Spain AND civil AND war OR - search results must include one search term or the other or both. Use this to cover synonyms e.g. child or infant Proximity Operators - specifies that search terms must appear near to one another. Proximity operators improve the relevancy of results but not all databases allow them. Notation varies - see database “help” pages e.g. civil SAME war / civil NEAR war / civil w/6 war etc. “phrase searching” – search results include the words as entered e.g. “human rights” NOT - excludes a term e.g. “civil war” NOT spain to find items on civil war but to exclude the Spanish civil

48. Proximity operators and truncation Truncation ! finds words with alternate endings e.g. child! returns child, children, childish etc. Also use with author names to cover initials and full names e.g. Spence, M! returns Spence, M and Spence, Michael * To replace one letter in a word. This is useful for variant spelling e.g. organi*ation returns organisation and organization The notation for truncation symbols and wild cards sometimes varies between database - check the Help notes for the database

49. Getting the information to your students Web pages Weblearn or Departmental VLE

50. What to include… Links to OLIS, Oxlip, TD Net Linked reading lists Information re external access Links to training materials Advice re. good searching techniques Who to ask for help – subject librarians

51. English on Weblearn http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/english/ http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/english/