You Cant Get There From Here

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• You Cant Get There From Here
• A Readers View of Yales Digital Library
• Prepared for a Forum on E-Access
• December 4, 2001

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Information seeking behavior

• All information worth knowing is available on the
  Web
• The first place to look for information is
  through a Web search engine

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Issues

• We can build a library front door and a
  sophisticated OPAC, but students need to know why
  they need to come to them
• The concepts of a catalog and an index and
  the distinction between them are meaningless

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The Library Web site
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Issues

• 4. Why are there are no journal articles in Orbis?

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Academic Search
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Full Page Image in Academic Search
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Academic Search
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Full Text in Academic Search
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Academic Search
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Check Linked Full Text Sources
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Check Linked Full Text Resources
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Check Full Text Link to Sources
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The Road to the Articlethrough Academic Search
Article citation
Unique article-level identifier
Project Muse
EBSCO Online
.pdf
.pdf
HTML
HTML
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Issues

• 4. Implement OpenURL

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Academic Search
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Academic SearchCitation with no Full Text
Indication
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Link to Orbis from Academic Search
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Long View in Orbis
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List of Online Journals
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New England Review in WilsonWeb
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New England Review in WilsonWeb
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New England Review in WilsonWeb
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Issues

• 5. Orbis doesnt include records for all
  electronic journals we have access to

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Search for the New York Times
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Search for the New York Times
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Search for the New York Times
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Where is the New York Times?

• New York Times (Historical)

• 1851-1900

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Search for the New York Times Online
Journals List
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Search for the New York Times Dow Jones
Interactive
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Search for the New York Times Dow Jones
Interactive
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Search for the New York Times Dow Jones
Interactive
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Where is the New York Times?

• New York Times (Historical)
• Dow Jones Interactive

• 1851-1900
• Last 90 days

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Search for the New York Times The New York Times
Upfront
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Where is the New York Times?

• New York Times (Historical)
• Dow Jones Interactive
• New York Times Upfront

• 1851-1900
• Last 90 days
• May 1999-

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Search for the New York Times
Orbis
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Search for the New York Times
Orbis
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Search for the New York Times At their Web
site
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Where is the New York Times?

• New York Times (Historical)
• Dow Jones Interactive
• New York Times Upfront
• New York Times Web site

• 1851-1900
• Last 90 days
• May 1999-
• 1996-

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Where is the New York Times?

• New York Times (Historical)
• Dow Jones Interactive
• New York Times Upfront
• New York Times Web site

• 1851-1900
• Last 90 days
• May 1999-
• 1996-

• 1989-

• Academic Universe

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Issues

• 6. Should Orbis be the catalog of record for all
  electronic serials?
• 7. When do we point to a commercial Web site
  from Orbis?

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Issues

• We can build a library front door and a
  sophisticated OPAC, but students need to know why
  they need to come to them
• The concepts of a catalog and an index and
  the distinction between them are meaningless
• Why are there are no journal articles in Orbis?
• Implement OpenURL
• Orbis doesnt include records for all electronic
  journals we have access to
• Should Orbis be the catalog of record for all
  electronic serials?
• When do we point to a commercial Web site from
  Orbis?