Getting technical – an overview

Laurence Lockton

Introduction to Journals

and E-Resources

Today

9 October 2012

Standards make the world go round

Internet protocols and standards are the technical basis of the e-resources supply chain.

On top of those are industry-specific protocols, standards, codes of practice, etc., created and maintained by bodies such as UKSG and NISO.

San Antonio Profiles SUSHI

DOI OpenURL SOAP

URL HTML XML

Application HTTP FTP Z39.50 DNS

Transport TCP

Network IP

Link Ethernet

Physical IEEE 802.3u

Protocols, standards, profiles

Library-centric view of e-resources

technology

searching,browsing,alerting,etc.

Discovery & Delivery

linking,authentication & authorisation

E-Resource managementKnowledgebases,Licence management,Usage stats & analysis

Discovery from the Library

• Library catalogue

• Abstracts & indexes

• A-Z title lists of journals and databases

• Federated searche.g. MetaLib, 360 Search

• Discovery services with a Central Indexe.g. Summon, Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service, WorldCat Local

Linking with CrossRef DOIs

DOI is a persistent, unique identifier for an article, e-book,

chapter, dataset, image,...

Example: 10.1111/0272-4332.211099

CrossRef is the official DOI link registration agency for

scholarly and professional publications.

DOI resolver, example:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0272-4332.211099

Resolves to:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0272-

4332.211099/abstract

Examples of OpenURL 0.1

OpenURL

• OpenURL and SFX were developed to provide seamless, context sensitive linking to a referenced scholarly article.

• Context sensitive = matching to the holdings and access rights of the user’s library.

• Solve the “appropriate copy problem.”

Example of OpenURL 0.1

http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bath/?genre=article&issn=0272-4332&year=2001&volume=21&issue=1&spage=171

Addresses (URLs) for e-resources

http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/110.short(Vol 56, Issue 1, Page 110)

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/thirdparty.do/?ini=kaist&ident=0007-070X(20040101)106:1L.9;1-1(Serial Item and Contribution Identifier)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901104000024

OpenURL and DOIs

http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bath/?genre=article&issn=0272-4332&year=2001&volume=21&issue=1&spage=171

Send metadata to CrossRef to get DOI

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0272-4332.211099/abstract

OpenURL and DOIs

http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bath/?id=doi:10.1093/bmb/ldr043

Send DOI to CrossRef to get metadata

Check knowledgebase

Generate target link, e.g.

http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/1/23

Overview of OpenURL linking

Sources

• Abstracts & indexes

• Google Scholar

• Catalogues

• Federated

search

• References

in articles

• Tables of

contents

Targets

• Full text online

• Library

catalogue

• Document

delivery/ILL

• Related

searches

• Export citationLibrary

holdings

LinkResolver

OpenURL 1.0

http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bath?ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2010-02-08T7%3A24%3A15CST&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsfxit.com%3Acitation&rft.atitle=Risk+Perception+and+Experience%3A+Hazard+Personality+Profiles+and+Individual+Differences.&rft.date=2001&rft.epage=179&rft.genre=article&rft.issue=1&rft.jtitle=Risk+Analysis%3A+An+International+Journal&rft.spage=71&rft.volume=21&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2F0272-4332.211099&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Aarticle&sfx.title_search=exact&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004

Knowledgebases

• Centrally maintained by the vendor.

• Titles, publishers, providers, packages, full text databases.

• Holdings, embargoes.

• Linking rules for targets.

• Localised by the library.

Knowledgebase improvements

• TRANSFER - Title transfers

• KBART – timely, accurate data from vendors to knowledgebases

• Iota – improving openURLs through analytics

Authentication & authorisation

• Institutional username/password

• Username/password for each user

• IP address recognition

• Centralized identity management: Athens (Classic)

• Federated identity management:Shibboleth, OpenAthensLA

IP address recognition for off-site users

• Web proxy/cache e.g. squid

• Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

• URL-rewriting proxy server: EZproxy, WAM, HAN

Usage statistics

• COUNTER: rules for how vendors report usage statistics to libraries

• SUSHI: data exchange model, replaces the need to download files from vendors’ website.

• Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)

• Journal Usage Factor project

COUNTER reports

Journal Report 1 Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by

Month and Journal

Journal Report 2 Access Denied to Full-Text Articles by Month, Journal

and Category

Journal Report 3 Number of Successful Item Requests by Month, Journal

and Page-type

Journal Report 4Total Searches Run By Month and Collection

Journal Report 5 Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by

Year-of-Publication (YOP) and Journal

UKSG E-Resources Technical Update

Classifying E-Resources

• Identifying the major players involved in e-resource provision

• The differences between gateways, platforms, publisher websites, aggregators,

search engine-based gateways and library gateways.

Reader Behaviour

• Where do users choose to begin their research?

• What are the differences in preferred starting points for researchers and

undergraduates?

• Advances in user navigation.

Managing User Navigation

• Linking through URL and OpenURL, the development and importance of Link

Servers

• The role of library web pages, OPACs, A-Z lists, federated search and web scale

discovery

• Accessing Open Access content.

Managing Authentication

• User authentication methodologies

• IP address ranges, proxies and firewalls

• Athens, federated access and Shibboleth

• OpenID developments.