GetIT

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GetIT RefWorksMaking Links

• 2004 OCUL Forum
• December 9, 2004
• Mita Sen-Roy.University of Windsor

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Making Introductions

• How RefWorks and GetIT! are linked
• How the effects of this combination are greater
  than the sum of the parts
• And I will flog the blog http//makinglinks.uwinds
  or.ca/

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So, how are these linked?
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Youve got your RefWorks in my GetIT! Services
Menu!
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Youve got your GetIT! buttons in my RefWorks
folders!
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• So what?

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• The two services build towards a richer linking
  environment in which information, once stateless,
  can be easily stored, shared, authenticated
  against, without a loss of its structure or
  metadata, between services such as a library
  database, non-scholarly website, material from
  course management software, a scholarly
  institutional repository, personal citation
  management software, or weblog.

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• But lets start small and build up.

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U of Ts Catalogue to RW
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Reading List Folder in RW
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GetIT!RW live reading list

• Not exactly a dynamic list, but its getting
  closer to that
• Users can create RefWorks lists of books and
  easily check their availability

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Rats! Still Not In.
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Why do we have to do this?

• Records within our library catalogues cannot be
  bookmarked like a web page

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GetIT!RWlibrary bookmarks

• Likewise, most articles in our library databases
  cannot be bookmarked

• Complex systems have to be navigated in order to
  do such simple tasks as saving or emailing a
  record to ones self

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Whats easier? (OVID)
or
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GetIT!RWlibrary bookmarks

• Deep, permanent links to articles within our
  library databases are difficult to find
• GetIT creates a common interface where users can
  easily tag research articles for future reading,
  printing, or for backup

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But ease has a cost (WoS)
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Not all the rich data makes it
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But its enough to get me back
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GetIT!RWlibrary bookmarks

• Will this change how we provide Reference Service
  in an environment where students use RefWorks?
• Should we encourage users to create a library
  dump account to save everything that they find?
  Or should they always filter citations in the
  library?

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RW allows Read Only Access
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GetIT!RW Bibliographies

• RefWorks allows for read-only accounts
• Librarians could create dynamic bibliographies to
  supplement their online subject guides or support
  local research
• The librarians of U Minnesota built a RW Database
  of Faculty Publications as a Liaison and
  Collection Development Tool

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GetIT!RW ERES

• Faculty can create online reading lists for their
  classes while they are creating their own
  reading lists, no less
• They can openly advertise these read-only
  username and passwords since the GetIT! service
  handles authentication at at the GetIT! Service
  menu

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RefWorks GetIT EZ Proxy

• By the simple act of adding a GetIT link into
  RefWorks, the user has automatically created a
  means to share library resources without ever
  knowing what a proxy server is
• This is getting closer to an ideal linking
  environment but

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Can I email GetIT links?

• Not through RefWorks but it is possible through
  the Capture Citation function(see Making Links
  for more info on this)

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Making Links, why?

• Making Links is a website created in September
  2004 to share information and to support
  librarians within the OCUL consortium who are
  adapting their library services to two
  technologies new to OCUL SFX and RefWorks.

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http//makinglinks.uwindsor.ca/
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To share information

• Between beginners and experts
• Between experts in different libraries
• Between librarians in the same library
• Between librarians OCUL OSP office

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To possibly share info

• Between librarians from other countries?
• Between librarians and students?
• Between librarians and developers?

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Topics have included

• Tweaking APA in RefWorks
• Posting to a blog from an SFX menu
• Shibboleth why its worth pronouncing
• Integrating print journals into SFX
• Google Scholar (Schoogle)
• Backing up and Restoring RW accounts
• and perhaps in the future, Illumina

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Anyone can post and respond

• Please join in the conversation.

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Any Questions?
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Thank you.
Mita Sen-Roy Leddy Library, University of
Windsor msenroy_at_uwindsor.ca