Research on EBooks Publishing Online

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Research on E-Books Publishing Online

• Library of Beijing Normal University
• Yingmei Wu
• wuym_at_lib.bnu.edu.cn

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Outline

• Concept and Method
• Information Architecture (IA)
• Librarys Practice
• The Mode of Digital Collection
• About the Publishing System
• Organizing, Labeling, Navigation, Searching,
  Integrative Services
• About the E-Book
• Book details?Other relative information(statistics
  , review, etc.)

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• In a study of library users requirements for a
  successful digital library, almost all the
  participants considered usability as the most
  important criterion for a useful digital
  library.
• ---- Hong (Iris) Xie, Evaluation of
  digital libraries Criteria and problems from
  users' perspectives, 2006

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• How
• to be usability under the idea of
• User Centered?

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Concept and Method IA

• Concept
• organization of Information - Make the
  information understandable
• presentation of information Make the
  information available
• Method
• Organization
• Labeling
• Navigation
• Searching

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Librarys Practice

• The Mode of Digital Collection
• About the Publishing System
• Matching the system and user activities
• About the E-Book
• Providing more details Presenting more
  correlations

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Librarys Practice The mode of digital
collection

• Cooperative mode
• Based on some library consortium
• eg. The CADAL Project
• Subject mode
• Based on a single librarys collection in some
  special subjects
• More appropriate for a single library

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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Organization System
• On the homepage of the library website
• Organize the library website from the perspective
  of users but not that of librarians. Organize the
  library website as a one-stop shop to meet users
  research and not reflect the administrative
  structure of the library.
• Reasonable Layout and Clear Function. Be sure
  users can easily see and understand what
  materials or content your library have. Place
  links to different types of research materials
  and sources ( such as E-books and other
  databases). Minimize the number of clicks users
  must take.

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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Organization System
• On the homepage of the E-books Database
• Provide a clear overview of the E-books, include
  the content coverage, year range, total counts
  and classifications.
• Offer a search function or a browser of the
  E-books. Finding E-books is a users primary
  goal, so it makes sense to let users search or
  browse E-books on the homepage of the database.

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From Tsinghua University Library, see
http//history.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/database/index.
htm
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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Organization System
• Offer Help Links and Explain Details
• Place a help link on every page. This way, when
  users need help, they know where to find it. Make
  help the central place for various help tools
  help text, tutorial videos question submittal
  form and so on.
• Offering brief but excellent descriptions can
  help speed researchers on their way. Users like
  to know how they can access E-books. Is the
  fulltext available? If so, from home or campus
  only? Is a password needed? Explain up front the
  most critical details about access, and you help
  users obtain needed content.

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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Organization System
• Classification Navigating System
• Select some criterions to classify the E-books
• Organize E-books in multiple ways, such as
  classifications( like China Library
  Classification ), subject areas, course or
  time-space character.
• According to Reeb and Gibbons (2004),
  Undergraduate students mental model is one
  focused on courses and coursework, rather than
  disciplines.

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From Peking University Library, see
http//apabi.lib.pku.edu.cn/List.asp?langgbDocGr
oupID8
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From Beijing Normal University Library, see
http//www.lib.bnu.edu.cn
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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Labeling System
• Hypertext and Linking
• Treat links according to conventions. Underline
  links or put them in a color that is different
  from any other text on your website. Also be sure
  to use a different color to indicate links users
  have visited.
• Use consistent design elements. Across all pages
  of your website use fonts and colors consistently
  for a uniform and professional appearance. Also
  strive to be consistent in the layout of pages,
  use of terminology or wording, and how your site
  allows users to interact with it.

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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Navigation System
• Use consistent navigation
• To orient users to the sites resources, use one
  navigation bar, use it consistently and use it
  well. Usually a navigation bar appears at the top
  of every page, as a series of buttons or tabs. By
  highlighting the tab or button correlating with
  the users current location on the website, you
  provide a visual clue and keep the user from
  getting lost.
• To give another clue to a users location on your
  site, you might also include a breadcrumb trail
  indicating the location of the page the user is
  currently visiting relative to the homepage
  (e.g., Home gt E-booksgt).

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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Searching System
• Offer a clear search function
• Basic search first, then Advanced search
• Provide search fields according to users need
• Present the search term and the count of results
  in the search result page

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From University of Michigan , see
http//moa.umdl.umich.edu
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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Searching System
• Sort results by relevance, titles, date, etc.
• Refine search result / Relevance search
• Place a Link to fulltext
• Search help

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Relevance search
From National Library of China , see
www.nlc.gov.cn
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Relevance search
From The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology Library , see www.library.ust.hk
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Librarys Practicethe Publishing System

• Integrative Services
• Recommend Readings Recommend books to readers
  according to readers recommendation, like
  readers recommendation form, readers clicks on
  E-books, and paper readers borrowing, etc.
• New listings
• The RSS/RDF push service
• Personalized Servicessearch history,personal
  bibliography, other personalized information
  about e-readings

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From Peking University Library , see
www.lib.pku.edu.cn
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From Library of Wuhan University of Technology,
see http//lib.whut.edu.cn/portal/index.jsp
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From Library University of Pennsylvania , see
http//onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
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Librarys Practicethe E-book

• E-Book Details
• Objective Informationtitle, author, Imprint,
  Description, etc.
• Overview of the books contentsubject,
  classification, call No. , contents, abstract,
  book review
• Full text

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From Shanghai Jiaotong University Library, see
http//www.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/
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Librarys Practicethe E-book

• Correlative Information
• Relevant resources
• Librarys Catalog Record location, borrowing
  records, to borrow the paper one from library
• Web interface of interlibrary loan system
• Reading Counts for recommendation for readers
  for measuring the use of these resources
• Book review for readers and experts to write and
  read

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From CADAL, see http//cadal.zju.edu.cn
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From CADAL, see http//cadal.zju.edu.cn
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From National Library of China , see
www.nlc.gov.cn
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Reference

• Hong (Iris) Xie. Evaluation of digital libraries
  Criteria and problems from users' perspectives,
  Library Information Science Research, 28
  (2006), 433452.
• Brenda Reeb, Susan Gibbons. Students, Librarians,
  and Subject Guides Improving a Poor Rate of
  Return, Portal Libraries and the Academy,
  Vol.4, No.1, 2004, 123-130.
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• http//www.nlc.gov.cn
• http//lib.tsinghua.edu.cn
• http//www.lib.pku.edu.cn
• http//www.lib.bnu.edu.cn
• http//moa.umdl.umich.edu
• http//cadal.zju.edu.cn
• http//www.lib.sjtu.edu.cn
• http//lib.whut.edu.cn
• http//www.library.ust.hk
• http//onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu