How publishers & librarians interact in an electronic worldRoyal College of Nursing, London W113 November 2003

Terry HulbertHead of eDevelopment & Strategy

E-mail: terry.hulbert@iop.orgWeb: http//:www.iop.org

Introduction How do we interact?

some context What would JISC like us to do? What have we done? What else have we done? Anything else? What else could we do?

some thoughts Summary

What would JISC like us do to? Using their 5-step guide

www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/info-environment

Step1: Expose metadata about your content support searching using Z39.50 support harvesting using OAI-PMH

Step 2: Share news/alerts using RSS Step 3: Become an OpenURL source Step 4: Become an OpenURL target Step 5: Use persistent URIs

Step 1: OAI-PMH and Z39.50 IOP journals content can be harvested

using OAI-PMH PSIgate already uses this Other services harvest in this way e.g.

ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) Still to upgrade to Version 2

Both Axiom and EJs support Z39.50

Step 2: RSS IOP makes much of its magazines

content available via RSS feeds news articles, jobs, events latest papers from selection of

journals syndication.iop.org

EEVL takes a feed also provided a good overview of

RSS www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer

Step 3: OpenURL source Already have a large number of ExLibris

customers – using SFX Other vendors’ offerings of OpenURL

also e.g. Serial Solutions (Article Linker), Endeavour (LinkFinderPlus)

Tell us your Base URL

Step 4: OpenURL target STACKS linking protocol/syntax

stacks.iop.org/issn/vol/page/pdf Obviously targets as DOIs can be used Alternatively use STACKS to point

directly to the full-text article can link elsewhere within the hierarchy

Step 5: persistent URLs Yes – insofar as f/t articles have DOIs STACKS links to the rest of hierarchy

What else have we done? Forward linking More OpenURL Clustering COUNTER

Forward linking Now able to see papers from other

publishers citing the article you’re viewing APS, NASA’s ADS service

This will grow with CrossRef initiative

OpenURL developments Build an ‘IOP resolver’ and create

our own rules Integrate ‘See Also’ type links

Clustering Experimenting with clustering

technologies drill-down browsing

Pre-canned cluster using NJP

Vivisimo – clustering on-the-fly limited to subset of search results

Verity k2 Intelligent Classifier – clustering using pre-existing taxonomies experimenting on Axiom good example with AIP

physicsfinder.org

COUNTER Excellent work on usage statistics

it’s a start IOP currently compliant and

building portal Some excellent examples already

available OUP have finished, as have

Elsevier

Anything else? CrossRef initiatives

forward linking CrossRef Search (working title)

Customer portals author gateways librarian gateways

What else could we do? PALS Metadata & Interoperability

Working Group Worked closely with EDINA on:

Project TIES ZBLSA

Worked with EduServ re. Athens Will be working with Stanford re. LOCKSS An idea:

graphical history of a reference linking trail

Any others: you tell me

Summary JISC 5-step guide

distributed publishing; distributed content Done a lot of these

identifying and adopting emerging technologies & standards

…and continue to do other things …and would like to do more, much more.

How is all this “radical”? How many publishers have deployed all

this? How many libraries have deployed all

this? Now that would be radical!

UKSG Seminar: The Radical Librarian

Thank you.

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