SFX

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SFX the original link server UKOLN OpenURL Day
17th September 2003 Jenny Walker jenny.walker_at_e
xlibris-usa.com
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SFX a history

• 1997/98 - SFX research work at Ghent University
  begins
• February 2000 Ex Libris acquires SFX technology
• November 2000 OpenURL to NISO
• March 2001 SFX product launch
• June 2002 (ALA) 200 customers in 17 countries
• July 2002 Active international user group
  formed (SMUG)
• September 2003 440 customers in 29 countries

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SFX Customers

• Widely distributed around the world, operating in
  many different languages
• 60 use ILS other than Ex Libris ALEPH
• 70 of customers represent consortia members
• Majority of customers are academic but many
  corporate libraries, national libraries, special
  libraries and public libraries

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SFX Local Clients

• Nottingham University
• NUI, Galway
• The British Library
• Kings College London
• London Business School
• Astra Zeneca
• EDINA
• Anglia Polytechnic University
• Coventry University
• University of York
• Cranfield College and RMCS
• Lancaster University

• University of East Anglia
• Loughborough University
• MIMAS
• University of Bath
• University of Manchester
• Bradford University
• University of Newcastle
• Westminster University
• Royal Holloway, University of London
• Canterbury Christchurch College
• Napier University

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SFX interlinking ecollections
Link Server
OPAC
e-print
Portal
AI
Full Text
Citations
Web Form
Reference Manager
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SFX flow AI (Ovid) as link source
SFX Source
SFX Menu
SFX Target
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SFX flow ScienceDirect as link source
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SFX flow OPAC Bib Record as link source
OpenURLhttp//sfx.aaa.edu/menu?genrejournalissn
1234-5678 date1998titleJournal of Pathology
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SFX Menu and Services under library control
Direct Link
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SFX benefits

• For the librarian
• central administration of links (and e-journal
  data)
• local control over what types of links are
  offered and to where these resolve
• optimizes use of licensed resources
• For the user
• Desktop delivery of full text when available
  electronically
• expands the research horizons
• consistency and accuracy of links

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SFX the enabling mechanisms

• Enabled by the OpenURL standard now
  well-accepted by scholarly publishing community
  see http//www.sfxit.com/sources.html
• Supported by comprehensive KnowledgeBase

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SFX KnowledgeBase

• Comprehensive KnowledgeBase delivered with the
  SFX server (430,000 journal titles of which
  20,500 are unique ejournal titles 90,000
  ebooks)
• Contains a set of rules for linking including
  rules for fine-tuning
• Library localizes to match local subscriptions
  and conditions using SFX tools
• Web-based tools for management
• Regularly updated and distributed by Ex Libris.
  Well developed tools for update preserves local
  changes.

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SFX not just about linking.

• Central repository for ejournal subscriptions

• A-Z journal title list

• Citation Linker

• MARC enhancement of SFX ejournal records for
  loading into OPAC
• MARC exchange format
• XML Marc

New

• Resource for unmediated document delivery
  requests

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SFX new directions

• Distributed rights evaluation using SFX API
• OpenURL v1.0
• Shibboleth attribute based authentication
• SFX Linking for technical services

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SFX in your library

• Integration with local authentication systems
  EZProxy, ATHENS
• Integration with CrossRef/DOI
• Integration with LMS eg Blackboard
• Independent of other Ex Libris systems but fully
  integrated
• Single site installations and consortia
• Locally hosted or Ex Libris hosted (via SFX
  Subscription Service) Solaris and Linux support

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UKOLN OpenURL Day, London 17th September
2003 jwalker_at_exlibris-usa.com www.sfxit.com