Scholars Portal : An Overview

Leslie WeirUniversity Librarian, University of

OttawaJanuary 26, 2006

Scholars Portal is …

a collection of content and a set of integrated services to allow researchers to BROWSE, SEARCH, SAVE and REQUEST scholarly articles in a uniform way, regardless of the publisher or the source of the resource

Science Server

RACER / VDX

RefWorks

SFX / Get It!

Scholars Portal Search

Applications

Get It!Scholars

PortalSearch

RefWorks

RACER

E-Journals

Integration

using standards- based linking, the services of the portal are integrated to support the workflow of researchers

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Databases

External Full-Text

Resources

Illumina

RefWorks

RACER

E-Journals

Get It!

Integration

resources available through the portal are closely integrated with resources and services of external providers

all resources and services are managed centrally but are presented to researchers as integrated components of each library’s own portal

Search

Search dozens of the best bibliographic databases simultaneously

Search

Results from all databases are presented as a single list with duplicates removed

Browse

Browse 7,300 scholarly journals from 20 publishers

Browse

Browse articles cited by and citing the current article

Associate

Explore associations based on the research interests and institutional affiliation of authors

Locate

Connect to full-text versions of 8.7M articles in

the Scholars Portal collection

Locate

Or connect to full-text articles from more than 400 scholarly publishers

Locate

Save

Mark records and save them to personal folders in RefWorks

Organize

Organize your citations into project folders

Share

Share folders with colleagues, a class, or the world

Cite

Create bibliographies and inline citations using one of hundreds of citation styles

Create Alerts

Create new issue and subject alerts

Snaphot Metrics

What can we measure?– Collections:

growth, overlap, use, non-use

– Service use: patterns, differences between schools

– Demand: met and un-met

– Users: demographics, interests

Where do these stats come from?– Science Server

download logs– SFX Collection

Tool– SFX Statistics Tool– RefWorks Admin

Tool– RACER Usage

Stats– Illumina Logs

Local Load Update

2002-2004 Academic Press Elsevier APA ACS Berkeley Cambridge Emerald Kluwer Oxford MUSE Springer Wiley

2004-2005 Taylor and Francis SAGE Blackwell IEEE

Royal Society of Chemistry

Lippincott

Current Collection Size:

7,375 Journals

8.7 million articles

Current Collection Size:

7,375 Journals

8.7 million articles

Article Databases

Done …

Sage Abstract Journals E-Journals @ Scholars

Portal PsycCRITIQUES INSPEC and INSPEC

Backfiles Wilson

(ARA,HUM,SOC,AST) Iter

To Do …

ISI Century of Science Proquest EBSCO IEEE Conferences

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Article Downloads

july 2002 - june 2005toronto 3,567,865 32.69%waterloo 1,053,530 9.65%guelph 846,129 7.75%ottawa 776,910 7.12%western 712,242 6.53%york 646,119 5.92%trent 493,234 4.52%brock 462,398 4.24%carleton 440,817 4.04%mcmaster 437,115 4.01%queens 411,584 3.77%windsor 352,208 3.23%ryerson 323,293 2.96%laurier 169,920 1.56%laurentian 122,639 1.12%lakehead 62,093 0.57%nipissing 18,882 0.17%uoit 15,633 0.14%total 10,912,611 100.00%

Download Geography

Top Ten Downloads

Downloads Title(Publisher)87877 Lancet, The(Elsevier Science)85393 Social Science and Medicine(Elsevier Science)81374 Phytochemistry(Elsevier Science)

79992Journal of Personality and Social Psychology(American Psychological Association)

56511 Animal Behaviour(Elsevier Science)50223 Personality and Individual Differences(Elsevier Science)49551 Sex Roles(Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers)

43775 Developmental Psychology(American Psychological Association)

36867International Journal of Eating Disorders(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company)

36699 Child Abuse and Neglect(Elsevier Science)

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