Collections

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Collections Access for the 21st Century
ScholarARL Forum, October 2001

• The New Academic Platform Beyond Resource
  Discovery
• Brian E. C. Schottlaender
• University of California, San Diego

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Initiative
• Objectives
• Principles
• Collaboration
• Super Discovery Tool
• Audience
• Beyond Resource Discovery
• Nomenclature

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Working Group
• Jerry Campbell, University of Southern California
  (Chair)
• Ken Frazier, University of Wisconsin
• Richard Lucier, Dartmouth College
• Olivia Madison, Iowa State University
• Sarah Michalak, University of Utah
• Sarah Pritchard, University of CaliforniaSanta
  Barbara
• Brian Schottlaender, University of CaliforniaSan
  Diego
• Carla Stoffle, University of Arizona
• Sarah Thomas, Cornell University
• Jerome Yavarkovsky, Boston College

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Objectives
• To create a Collective research library
  presence on the Web.
• Jerry D. Campbell, The Case for Creating a
  Scholars Portal to the Web A White Paper
•  To develop a suite of discovery tools and
  services for academic users of the Internet.
• May 2001 E-news for ARL Directors

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Objectives
• . . . . . construction of a suite of
  Web-based services that will connect the higher
  education community as directly as possible with
  quality information resources that contribute to
  the teaching and learning process and that
  advance research.
• Working Group Report, http//www.arl.org/access/
  scholarsportal/

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Objectives
• a suite of scholarly productivity tools
• and services . . .
• . . . to integrate, manipulate, exploit, and
  explore the academic content universe.

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Principles
• Access to disparate electronic resources and
  services can be improved through integration,
  both within a single institution and between
  multiple institutions.
• Efforts to effect such integration should
  leverage work already being carried out in ARL
  libraries.

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Collaboration
• Why ARL? The magnitude of the need and the
  significance of the opportunity.
• Jerry D. Campbell, The Case for Creating a
  Scholars Portal to the Web A White Paper
  lthttp//www.arl.org/newsltr/211/portal.htmlgt
• ARL and . . .
• commercial and not-for-profit sectors
• libraries
• academic colleagues

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Collaboration
• . . . those responsible for this new environment
  include but also go beyond the library community.
  It implies the active involvement of faculty and
  scholars . . .
• . . . institutions need to . . . embrace the fact
  that partnerships between and among for-profit
  and traditional institutions may be some of the
  most successful models for creating and
  delivering these new learning environments.
• Brian L. Hawkins, Information Access in the
  Digital Era.
• Educause Review 36/5 (Sept./Oct. 2001)

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Super Discovery Tool
• Local catalog
• Other research library catalogs
• Vetted Web sites
• Locally licensed full-text and abstracting/indexin
  g databases
• Public domain or publicly accessible
  abstracting/indexing services
• Finding aids for special collections and archives
• Locally digitized resources

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Super Discovery Tool
• Ability to query two distinct streams of
  electronic resources and databases
• Universal stream of unrestricted resources (Web
  pages and searchable databases) from Web sites
  targeted for quality and academic relevance.
• Local stream of information, access to which is
  restricted to local users by license or other
  agreement.
• Ability to map a search against different types
  of metadata.

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The New Academic Platform

• ARL Scholars Portal Audience?
• Initially, teaching faculty and students,
  especially undergraduates.
• Subsequently, academics with more advanced needs.

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The New Academic Platform

• Academic Platform
• Scholars Portal
• WholePart Relationship

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The New Academic Platform

• Beyond . . .
• . . . Discovery
• Capture
• Integration
• Manipulation
• Distribution
• Consultation

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The New Academic Platform

• Academic Productivity Facilitators
• Discovery Scholars Portal discovery tool
• Capture request and delivery tools
• Integration description, classification, and
  indexing tools
• Manipulation text-processing and
  citation-management tools
• Distribution contribution and publication tools
• Consultation virtual reference services and
  access to electronic scholarly communities

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The New Academic Platform

• . . . in the current environment and with the
  current tools, we are left with incomplete
  information, little if any organization, and
  rudimentary, inefficient, and often inaccurate
  searching.
• Brian L. Hawkins, Information Access in the
  Digital Era.
• Educause Review 36/5 (Sept./Oct. 2001)

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The New Academic Platform

• . . . increasingly Borgesian.
• Richard Fyffe

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The New Academic Platform

• ACADEMIC
• It is unclear even from the full context . . .
• whether a student or faculty member is referred
  to by academic.
•   OED Online lthttp//dictionary.oed.com/entrance
  .dtlgt

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The New Academic Platform

• PLATFORM
• The ground, foundation, or basis of an action,
• event, calculation, condition, etc.
•  
• OED Online lthttp//dictionary.oed.com/entrance.
  dtlgt