Lund University Libraries Head Office

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Lund University LibrariesHead Office
Electronic Library Information Navigator
(ELIN_at_) The one-stop-shop to digital library
resources eIFL Annual General Assembly Poznan Sept
ember 10th-11th 2004 Lars Björnshauge, Lund
University Libraries
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Things to consider for libraries and consortia

• Arnold Hirshon yesterday
• How can we do something else with electronic
  resources
• How can you increase the value of your consortia
• How can we promote the usage of licensed resources

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Additional issues especially relevant to eIFL
consortia

• How can we easily provide an overview of
  available (electronic) resources
• When connectivity is an important issue
• It must be easy for users to quickly find what
  they are searching for
• Available information resources must be visible
• We must provide tools that reduces dependence on
  connectivity (bandwidth etc.)

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Other issues also relevant to eIFL consortia

• Imagine
• That users only have to learn to know one service
  to be able to access electronic resources
• That when you have shortage of library staff
  you only have to train users in one service

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More than licensing content and providing access

• Organizing resources
• Federated search
• Integrate Open Access resources
• Easy to use
• time saving
• reduce costs
• reduce network traffic

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More than just journals!!

• It is not only about journals
• Freely accessible documents from Open Archives
  (e-print, pre-print, post-print institutional
  repositories)
• Databases
• Web-resources subject gateways

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Integration of OA-material in Library
Information Services

• The problem
• conventional toll-access material flows
  seamlessly into library services
• supported by publishers, subscriptionsagents,
  aggregators etc.
• how to expose Open Access material to users??

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The bundling strategy from the publishers point
of view

• In terms of access and usage bundling means
• One database
• One single point of access limited to the
  content of one publisher (i.e. Kluwer, Springer,
  Wiley, Elsevier etc.)
• Visibility for low usage (low quality?) journals

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An integration strategy from the library point of
view

• Integration means
• One database
• One single point of access independent of
  publishers
• Visibility for smaller, not-for-profit publishers
• And
• Visibility for Institutional Repositories and
  Open Access journals and other freely available
  quality resources

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A solution The Electronic Library Information
Navigator - ELIN_at_ -

• The one-stop-shop integrating
• Subscription based (toll-access) journals,
• open access journals
• institutional repositories
• databases
• scholarly web resources (subject gateways)

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ELIN_at_

• ELIN_at_ what is it?
• Advantages for end users and library staff
• ELIN_at_ who are using it?
• ELIN_at_
• User interface
• Administrative tool
• Why you should choose ELIN_at_

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ELIN_at_

• A user-friendly search interface created by
  librarians
• One interface for all content
• Cross search documents from multiple sources
  free or licensed
• Subject classification
• Document delivery services for documents not
  available in full text
• My ELIN_at_ with personal ToC alerts and SDIs
• Export references to EndNote and Reference
  Manager

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ELIN_at_

• A product neutral presentation of resources
• 19 000 000 records in one user interface
• Publishers Open Archives Open Access Journals
• Integration to local user database for
  autentification etc.
• Personalized services
• Advanced administration tools for customization

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ELIN_at_Lund what is it?

• Administrative tools
• Subscription administration functionalities
• Easy to add and remove titles
• Overview of titles
• Import and export files
• Statistics
• Easy overview of usage
• You control your holding information

• Customization
• Change layout
• Add logo and link
• Change information
• Content in ELIN_at_
• 11.000 journal titles
• 19 million articles

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ELIN_at_ who are using it?

• Currently 12 academic institutions are using
  ELIN_at_
• ELIN_at_Gent University of Gent, Belgium
• ELIN_at_Blekinge Blekinge Institute of Technology,
  Sweden
• ELIN_at_Dalarna Dalarna University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Kalmar Kalmar University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Kristianstad Kristianstad University,
  Sweden
• ELIN_at_Mälardalen Mälardalen University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Malmö Malmö University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Örebro Örebro University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Skövde University of Skövde, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Växjö Växjö University, Sweden
• ELIN_at_VGregion Västra Götalandregion, Sweden
• ELIN_at_Lund Lund University, Sweden

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International Development

• Development of onsite ELIN_at_ in cooperation with
  International Network for the Availability of
  Scientific Publications (INASP) for institutions
• Facilitating easy use of digital information
  resources in low-bandwidth environments
• In operation at Law Faculties in 4 universities
  in Vietnam
• Installations underway in
• Pakistan
• Uganda
• Rwanda

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Implementation in Vietnam, Rwanda, Uganda and
Pakistan
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ELIN_at_ for low-connectivity countries

• What we will do for INASP
• Develop an onsite version of ELIN_at_
• Metadata are hosted locally
• Requests for full-text download are collected and
  downloaded in low-traffic hours
• User and/or library is alerted when the document
  is transferred
• Training of librarians is proveded as well

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Languages

• Swedish
• English
• Vietnamese
• French (soon)
• Easy to implement other languages in the interface

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ELIN_at_ user interface
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ELIN_at_ administrative tool
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Why ELIN_at_ could be usefull for eIFL-menbers

• Choose a commercial service or
• Choose a service developed and operated by a
  university library
• We are Independent
• We are on your side!
• We are committed to changes in the scholarly
  publishing system
• We are promoting open access, (DOAJ)
• We are credible, we keep our promises

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More!!

• One simple pricing model
• all services included
• unlimited number of resources (journals,
  databases etc.)
• no extra costs for linking up additional
  information resources
• no extra costs for personalisation (TOC-alerts or
  SDIs)
• no hardware investments

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So to go back to the beginning of this
presentation

• You can do something else with electronic
  resources
• You can increase the value of your consortia
• You can promote the usage of licensed resources
  and Open Access resources

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More!

• You can provide an overview of available
  (electronic) resources
• When connectivity is an important issue
• You can provide tools for users to quickly find
  what they are searching for
• You can make information resources visible
• You can provide tools that reduces dependence on
  connectivity (bandwidth etc.)

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And finally

• Imagine
• Users only have to learn to know one service to
  be able to access electronic resources
• When you have shortage of library staff you
  will only have to train users in one service

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We work for librariesWe work internationallyWe
work for changes in scholarly communicationWe
would very much like to work with eIFL consortia
to provide easy access to resources and make the
most of your investments
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More information

• About the ELIN_at_ service
• pluto.lub.lu.se/about/one.html
• Articles about ELIN_at_
• The Charleston Advisor, Volume 5, Number 4, April
  2004 http//www.charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id
  155typefr
• Serials Volume 16, Number 3 / November 01, 2003
  pages 313-317 http//pluto.lub.lu.se/about/Elect
  ronic_Information_Resources_final.pdf
• Lars Björnshauge lars.bjornshauge_at_lub.lu.se

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Live presentation

• ELIN_at_Lund
• http//elin.lub.lu.se