Experiences on services enabling integration of electronic resources: A to Z (EBSCO) and

ScholarSFX (SFX Express with Google Scholar)

Natalia LitvinovaRussian State Library

Nlit@rsl.ru

IFLA Standing Committee on Acquisition and Collection Development Mid-term meeting, Granada, March 2007

Russian State Library

RSL Web site (English version)

Russian State Library collections

Collections in general

Grand total – 43.3 million unitsIncluding 12.6 million foreign documents

Collections by the kinds of publications

Books and pamphlets - 16.7 million itemsJournals – 12.9 million itemsSerials – 1.4 million items

Electronic resources generated by RSL

Grand Total – about 150 thousands items

Electronic library of digital dissertations –

115 thousands items

Digitized documents from RSL collections:- digitized within special projects (Memory of Russia, Meeting of Frontiers, Russian Literature Online etc.)- digitized for preservation purposes

Licensed Resources

47 packages- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

- American Institute of Physics

- American Mathematical Society

- American Physical Society

- Blackwell Publishing

- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)

- Cambridge Journals Online

- Elsevier Economics Collection and Article Choice

Licensed Resources (continued)

- Emerald Management Extra

- IEEE Electronic Library

- Inspec

- Integrum Techno (Russian Journals)

- Oxford Journals Online

- Proquest 5000

- Sage Publications

- Springer Collections (Journals and E-books)

- Taylor & Francis Journals

and others

The Russian State Library users and staff need a Union list of titles from Licensed Resources.

From the year 2000 to 2006 we composed this list ourselves. The Procedure was as follows:- downloading title lists from vendors platforms

- importing the lists into Access database

- finding out and analyzing duplicate titles

- presenting the resulting list in HTML and putting it on Web site

The Union list on RSL Web site(before 2006)

The procedure was very time consuming

More important, the list should have been updated regularly because of changeable

nature of licensed resources, especially those of aggregators

Commercial systems

A to Z (EBSCO Industries) http://www.ebsco.com/atoz/default.asp

Serials Solutions (Proquest) http://www.serialssolutions.com

Journal Manager (TDNet) http://www.tdnet.com

Three steps of composing Union list in A to Z

The Resulting Union List

Title List Summary Total Resource Links: 69,458 Managed Resource Links: 65,816   Custom Resource Links: 3,642

Total Managed Packages: 26

* Unique Resources: 49,189 Unique Managed Resources: 47,886   Unique Custom Resources: 3,636

Total Custom Packages: 3

You can customize your site

A to Z provides powerful means of collection analysis

- by subject

- by usage (various statistical data)

- by overlap analysis

Analysis by subject

You can get various statistical data...

Overlap Analysis

Searching multiple resources one by one is uncomfortable. Our users want to search resources

simultaneously and get union lists of documents which have been found.

To do this, libraries use metasearch services (MS) and link resolvers (LR).

Metasearch services allow searching multiple resources.Link resolvers allow context-sensitive linking which enables getting full texts of documents from the resources library has

access to.

MS and LR are rather expensive. Libraries have to pay tens of thousands dollars for these services.

Google Scholar offers free metasearch service for scientific resources on the Web. Most academic publishers cooperate with Google in this project. Search results in Google Scholar are supplied with OpenURL links.

ScholarSFX is a kind of simple link resolver which allows a library to configure it to represent library holdings (resources available to this library)

ScholarSFX is offered free of charge to the members of Russian national consortium NEICON.

How it works

How links work

To make this working the Library administrator creates library profile in ScholarSFX

The main component of library profile is a set of target resources, that is, the resources library has access to (both licensed and open access resources).

The procedure of setting up target resources is similar to that of A to Z: library administrator chooses relevant resources from the list available in ScholarSFX

1. Choosing target resources

2. Choosing titles (titles available to RSL in American Institute of Physics package)

Changing coverage

Illustration of resolving links

Thank you for your attention

Muchas gracias!