linking courseware to library resources using openurl: experience, possibilities, and future...
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Defining the Problem What do faculty, students, and librarians want? What does the course management and information environment look like? What are the components of a solutionTRANSCRIPT
Linking Courseware to Library Resources Using OpenURL: Experience, Possibilities, and
Future Directions
David W. Lewis, IUPUI University LibraryOren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris
Chris Awre, Program Manager, JISC
CNI, April 28, 2002
Defining the Problem
• What do faculty, students, and librarians want?
• What does the course management and information environment look like?
• What are the components of a solution
What Do Faculty Want?
“Faculty want access to local resources (electronic reserves), database subscriptions, web materials, etc. all accessible through and easy to use citation creator. I know that I’m not telling you anything you don’t know…
What Do Faculty Want?
… this should, of course, be managed by a CMS that has single authentication and appropriate authorization to materials based on their role in the enterprise.”
— Jay Fern, Enterprise Services/Systems Liaison, UITS, Indiana University
What Do Faculty Want?
• To be able to locate or identify materials relevant to their courses– Known items– Items found by searching or browsing
• Capture a link to these items• Insert the link into a CMS (or other web
pages) so students can easily link to the material
What Do Students Want?
• One click access to all of the required readings from the course management system
• With no additional authorization required• Access from anywhere
What Do Libraries What?
• Maximum use of previously purchased electronic content
• Minimize labor use for electronic reserves and minimize the cost of copyright fees for electronic reserves
• Recognition of library’s contribution — Branding
Environment
• Course Management Systems• Library Resources
– Purchased Content– Electronic Reserves
• Open Web Resources– Web pages– Documents in Databases (Repositories)
Purchased Content
• Most important because:– Large institutional investment– The best stuff - what the faculty want to
use
Purchased Content
• Many vendors/systems - No common interface or standard linking protocol
• Some systems have persistent links, some do not
• Content is unstable• Established mechanisms of bibliographic
control - the catalog - do not help much
EnvironmentPurchase Library
DatabasePurchase Library
DatabasePurchase Library
DatabaseCampusDomainIP FiteringHandcrafted Links
Library CreatesPurchase Library
DatabaseHandcreaftedLinksCreated by Faculty
Library Web Page
Handcrafted or System Created
Links
Electronic Reserves
Course Management
System
Web
EnvironmentPurchase Library
DatabasePurchase Library
DatabasePurchase Library
DatabaseCampusDomainIP FiteringHandcrafted Links
Library CreatesPurchase Library
DatabaseLinks
Created by Faculty
Library Web Page
Handcrafted or System Created
Links
Electronic Reserves
Course Management
System
WebPersistent Link
Grabber
Key Question
For purchased content, how do we make a citation work as a link?
Citation/Link
• Should definitively identify the object - the traditional role of a citation
• Should find the “appropriate copy” in a given domain - challenge of the current purchase content environment
• Should be in open - useable from any web page
Answer: OpenURL
• Citation/Link is an object which has a visible component which looks like a traditional citation
• Embedded in the object is an OpenURL which can be used to retrieve full-text in a specific domain
Citation/Link - What You See
Maryam Alavi; Bradley C. Wheeler; Joseph S. Valacich , “Using IT to Reengineer Business Education: An Exploratory Investigation of Collaborative Telelearning,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, Special Issue on IS Curricula and Pedagogy. (Sep., 1995), pp. 293-312.
Citation Link - Underlying OpenURL
http://sfx.ulib.iupui.edu/sfx_local?genre=article&issn=02767783&title=MIS%20Quarterly&volume=19&issue=3&date=19950901&atitle=Using%20IT%20to%20reengineer%20business%20education%3A%20An%20exploratory%20investigation%20of%20collaborative%2E%2E%2E&spage=293&sid=EBSCO:afh&pid=%3Cauthors%3EAlavi%2C%20Maryam%3BWheeler%2C%20Bradley%20C%2E%3C/authors%3E%3Cui%3E9512120051%3C/ui%3E%3Cdate%3E19950901%3C/date%3E%3Cdb%3Eafh%3C/db%3E
Answer: OpenURL• 1. Faculty member
uses citation/link creator to search library databases
• 2. Citation/Link Creator captures OpenURL citation
• 3. OpenURL citation/link embedded in CMS web page
• 4. Student clicks on OpenURL citation/link
• 5. OpenURL Resolver find full-text
Purchase Library Database
Purchase Library Database
Purchase Library Database
CampusDomainPurchase Library Database
WebOpenURL Resolver
Citation/Link CreatorCourse
Management System
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Complexities
• Acquiring citation is done in different ways– Know Item - Use OpenURL Resolver or
Federated Search Engine– Subject Searching or Browsing
• No standard for citation/link