MPG SFX Services

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MPG SFX Services

• Linking to full text and more

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Brief Overview of electronic resources

• If you search for a paper you have several
  possibilities
• via our library homepage http//www.biochem.mpg.de
  /zb/ direct acces to
• Local online catalog check for holdings of
  books, series, journals in print or electronic
  version
• E-Journals via Electronic Journal Library EZB
• E-Books search the library catalog under the tab
  Electronic printed books
• or
• search the MPG eBooks Catalog
• more information under Electronic media
  http//www.biochem.mpg.de/zb/electronic_media/inde
  x.html
• Please always check whether the journal required
  is in our library as a print resp. online
  version, because that's for free!

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What is SFX?

• SFX (an acronym for "Special Effects")
• context-sensitive reference linking product
• based on the openURL framework
• owned and developed by Ex Libris
• licensed by the Max Planck Society (MPG) and
  further developed by Max PLanck virtual Library
• an ideal tool for the "intelligent" integration
  of the various reference databases, library
  catalogs, full text repositories and other
  scientific information resources available to MPG
  staff
• SFX allows users to
• start with an item of interest found in one
  information resource ("Source"),
• view a menu of additional options ("Services")
  related to that item available via other
  information resources,
• and then directly access the selected resource
  ("Target") at the appropriate level.

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SFX Source
SFX Menu
SFX Target
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How do I use SFX? (Workflow 1)

• Location and size of the SFX buttons
• may vary slightly from one resource to the other
• If the information resource you are using (e.g.
  library catalog, reference database, etc) has
  been "SFX-enabled", then regardless of whether
  you have accessed the resource via the Max Planck
  Virtual Library (vLib) interface or via the
  provider's original search interface (e.g. Ovid,
  Web of Knowledge, CSA), you will normally see a
  SFX button at the full record level or within
  particular data fields.
• Click the SFX button to open a new browser window
  with the "MPG/SFX Services" menu

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SFX service menu (Workflow 2)

• Find the bibliographic information of your
  selected item near the top
• Follow a list of services available for this item
  via other information resources
• Click the logo next to the desired service or on
  the name of the resource to activate a link to
  the respective target
• (again opening an additional browser window)
• Return to the SFX menu to select a different
  service for the same item or return to your
  original information resource

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What services can SFX offer me?

• Currently, MPG/SFX Services may offer you any of
  the following options
• Access the full text on the publisher's website
  or in an electronic repository (whenever
  possible)
• Check for availability of an electronic version
  via the Electronic Journal Library - EZB
• Check for availability of a print or electronic
  version in a local library catalog via the MPG
  Journal Index
• Check for holdings in our library (Local online
  catalog)
• Request the full text via our library (form) or
  via the document delivery service Subito
• Search the author in Web of Science (to find
  additional publications, cited references,
  related articles, etc)
• RSS feed for table of contents
• View additional information regarding the journal
  or book in which an item was published
• Search for possibly relevant web sites, using
  various Internet Search Engines (based on title
  words)

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Why is there more than one option for full
texts?

• Full text available via ... The MPG has a
  central licensing agreement with the publisher.
  SFX will take you as close as possible to the
  full text of the desired article.
• Full text available via Publisher's Homepage
  If a central license is not in place, the MPG/SFX
  server requests the Electronic Journal Library
  (EZB) in the background to check if the full text
  is available via a local license. In the positive
  case a link to the provider's website is offered
  as well as the appropriate EZB traffic light.
• If the SFX server fails in retrieving any license
  information it will offer other possibilities
• Check for this journal in the Electronic Journal
  Library - EZB will check if an electronic
  version of this journal exists, and, if so,
  direct you to its home page.
• Check for library holdings in the MPG Journal
  Index will check to see if either the print or
  electronic version of the journal is available in
  any of the individual Max Planck Institutes whose
  library catalogs have been included in the MPG
  Journal Index.
• Search for more information using a Web Search
  Engine run an internet search to check for a
  free available copy (e.g. on the personal web
  page of the author)

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Your direct connection

• You have the bibliographic information for the
  reference ? use the MPG Citation Linker to
  directly retrieve the relevant MPG-SFX Services
• Enter as much information as possible about the
  specific article, journal, book you are
  interested in. After completing the form, click
  the button
• Set your own bookmark http//sfx.mpg.de/citation/s
  fx_local

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• The MPG SFX Service is under our control, i.e.
  we can optimize it according to the concrete
  requirements from the MPG.
• Please let us know if you miss the SFX buttons
  somewhere, consider additional services
  reasonable or notice errors.
• Answers to some of the most frequently asked
  questions are available from the MPG/SFX FAQ
  http//sfx.mpg.de/sfx-faq.html.
• If you need further information or help
• If you want to comment on SFX
• call the Library at 3800 or send us a message
  at library_at_biochem.mpg.de
• Thanks for your attention!
• Questions?

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Examples

• Essmann, CL, Serine phosphorylation of ephrinB2
• Nat Neurosci. 2008 Sep11(9)1035-43
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19160501?itool
  EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.
  Pubmed_RVDocSumordinalpos3
• sfxmenu_url http//sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local?sidEntr
  ezPubMedidpmid19160501
• Sung, BJ, Computer simulations of protein
  diffusion
• Biophys J. 2009 Jul 2297(2)472-9
• SPECIAL URL FOR PUBMED http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
  ov/entrez/query.fcgi?otoolidempslib
• sfxmenu_url http//tinyurl.sfx.mpg.de/q44d
• Anaka, M, The white Gene of Drosophila
  melanogaster Encodes a Protein with a Role in
  Courtship Behavior
• Journal of Neurogenetics 22(2008)4, 243-276
• sfxmenu_url http//tinyurl.sfx.mpg.de/qca7
• Adaptation accentuates responses of fly
  motion-sensitive visual neurons to sudden
  stimulus changes
• sfxmenu_url http//tinyurl.sfx.mpg.de/q9hd
• Offord, RE, Synthesis and evaluation of
  fluorescent chemokines labelled at the amino
  terminal
• Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM 1997