1. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries ELIN: Electronic Library Information Navigator Ian Mayfield University of Portsmouth Linda Humphreys University of Bath

2. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries What is ELIN? ELIN provides our users with a simple and quick system for finding: –E-books –E-journals –Articles –Library databases –Websites

3. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries What is ELIN? ELIN is NOT a federated search solution Developed by University of Lund Extensive agreements with publishers: article metadata from >14,400 journals Upload book and journal records from OPAC, SFX etc. Manually add and edit records if required

4. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries Why did we choose ELIN? Library OPAC does not provide access to journal articles Library OPAC does not provide sufficient browsing facilities Need for simple alternative to Google Bibliographic databases can be complex Issues with federated search solutions

5. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries Demonstration: ELIN at Portsmouth

6. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries

18. Advantages of ELIN Up and running instantly Very simple to use Searching is quicker than with federated search Global search Single list of results Can restrict search to subscribed content Alerting My collection Full local control: house style

19. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries Issues with ELIN University-produced and supported Lack of documentation Updating Lacking some article metadata By subject lists are difficult to manage

20. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries Comments from users (Bath) it is often difficult to find the best article as the key words I type seem to confuse the system does not allow for the slightest spelling error should be able to search by abbreviated journal title can't get at articles in several journals, especially from some time ago sometimes links dont work

21. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries More comments from users quick and easy so easy to use! Doesnt need specialist knowledge to use it you can get full access to a lot of articles and you can save them in my collection a direct link to full text when Im working remotely everything is in one place I absolutely LOVE ELIN!

22. Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries Any questions?