Linkfinder Plus at the University of Auckland

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Linkfinder Plus at the University of Auckland

• 2003/2004 Implementation
• Leonie Hayes
• Database Administrator
• Digital Services

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Overview

• What we did, our approach
• Server Setup
• What it looks like
• What to call the linking button
• Issues with Serials Management
• System Administration Client
• Other issues for the future

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Our approach?

• Installed late 2002, Implemented slowly over the
  year 2003
• Resources Part-time contributionsDatabase
  Administrator me part-time in capacity as
  system administrator.Voyager System
  Administrator reports, table structures, server
  configuration, Endinfosys liaison.Manager and Web
  Developer screen design and graphics
• Testing in the public arena

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Server Configuration

• Linkfinder Plus Server http//linkfinder.auckland.
  ac.nz8888/lfp/LinkFinderPlus/Display?
• Hardware - Linkfinder Plus Server - on E15K
  Own webserver different to Voyagerbut on the
  same machine along with Encompass.
• Software - Version 3.5 installed November
• Has been some issues with this type of
  configuration i.e. complexity and dependencies
• Authentication via Ezproxy

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Some Stats

• We have approx 14,000 ejournals, growing daily
• Estimate that 12,000 of them are available in LFP
  knowledge base
• Activated 8,000 targets (about 60 of the total
  collection)
• Ebsco is not activated (have approx 3,500) then
  our coverage will be 95 of possible targets and
  about 80 of our collection

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What it looks like
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Source - From

• Implemented Semester 1 2003
• Ovid -  Medline, Biological Abstracts etc
  SilverPlatter Webspirs 5.0 - GeoRef, Philosophers
  index etc CSA - Ageline, Worldwide Political
  Science Abstracts etc Web of Science Gale Group
  - Expanded Academic etc
• Implementation in Semester 2 - 2003 RLG
  databases, Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder
  Scholar.

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Targets Activated
ACS, Ovid Full Text, Emerald, Ingenta Select,
Allen Press, JHU - Project Muse, Springer, RSC,
Wiley, Science Direct, Kluwer, Nature, JSTOR,
Lancet, Proquest, Catchword, Gale Group,
CSIRO, Some Highwire, TO COME Lexis Ebsco
(have 3,500 titles)
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The Big QuestionsIssues with naming

• Find it, get it, Link to Full text, Elink,
  Branding
• What have others done? Every variation
  conceivable!
• Why we are leaning towards LEARNLink

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LinkFinder  Buttons
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Other Issues _ Serials Management

• We chose to think very carefully about how we
  preserved one source of accurate data about
  electronic serials.
• Overview of how it is implemented here
• No serials management in Voyager
• Linking the Site ID from Voyager to Linkfinder
  YES Please

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System Administration Client

• Navigation no need to say more.
• Reports Activated sites and targets, matching
  between Voyager/LFP,
• Activating targets by hand!
• Batch activation the way to go
• Will be using Ebsco as my trial

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Where to? Issues

• Changing the knowledge base and not keeping track
  of it, (i.e. Wiley) the site id and when the
  knowledge base gets updated new fixes are
  implemented
• Knowledge base updates only happening in new
  releases, keeping up to date with new titles
• Australian and New Zealand journals
• Open URL Voyager link to TOC