Enhancing Access to E-Resources by Implementing Google Scholar and E-Books in the Link Resolver

Elizabeth Sosnowska, MLS, UMDNJ University LibrariesYingting Zhang, MLS, AHIP, UMDNJ-RWJ Library of the Health Sciences

2013 VALE / NJ ACRL / NJLA CUS Users’ Conference

January 4, 2013

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UMDNJ, the largest standalone health sciences university, with graduate programs in:

Medicine Dentistry Nursing Public health Biomedical sciences Health related professions

UMDNJ at a glance

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Medline via Ovid PubMed DynaMed CINAHL PsycINFO Web of Science

Traditionally Used Resources

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Usage Highlights

Medline (Ovid)

Academic Search Premier

CINAHL

Dynamed

PsycInfo

Web of Science

0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000

No of sessions

No of searches

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Google (1998-)o Librarians - early discoverers and adopters,

acknowledging its searching power for general and non-scholarly information.

o In academic health sciences environment – encouragement to use traditional, licensed resources prevails.

Google Scholar (2005-)o A step in the right direction and a major enhancement

of Google searching.

What About Google?

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Implementation of a link resolver (Summer 2005-)

Initial request from public services team to add Google Scholar to link resolver services (Fall 2009).

Decision not to register link resolver in Google Scholar (Winter 2009/2010).

Findit@UMDNJ vs. Google Scholar

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Time consuming and complicated way of submitting data updates to Google Scholar via our link resolver.

The significance of currency and timeliness of information for health sciences students and faculty.

Why Not Google Scholar?

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Link resolver improvementso Easy way to registero Seamless data updates via Google Scholar crawling

Google Scholar enhancementso Scholar metricso Citation tracking feature

Google Scholar information from documents not available in PubMed, such as dissertations, theses, meeting abstracts, legal documents, etc.

Research found that GS yields highly relevant articles in high impact sources.

Why Now?

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Most Searched Resources

2012 Usage Data

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No. of visits

PubMed

Medline

CINAHL

Academic Search Premier

PsycInfo

Web of Science

Referrers from Search Engines

Google

Bing

Yahoo

Others Combined

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PubMed

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Google Scholar

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Google Scholar

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PubMed

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Google Scholar Citations

Launched in November 2011. Simple way for authors to keep track of citations to

their articles. Allows users to check who is citing their publications

and compute several citation metrics. Allows creation of a public profile for each

author/researcher, ensuring that their name will appear in Google Scholar search results.

Quick to set up and simple to maintain. Citation metrics are computed and automatically

updated.

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Google Scholar Citation Tracking

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Google Scholar Metrics

Launched in early 2012. Easy way:

o to assess the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.

o to decide where to publish their new research. o to see which articles were cited the most and who

cited them (h-index).o to explore publications in research areas of one’s

interest.

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Google Scholar Metrics

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Google Scholar Search Results

For authors to keep track of citations to their articles

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Google Scholar Search Results

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Allowing users to access full text directly from GS search results.

Retrieval of quality clinical information from resources not indexed in specialized databases.

Ability to track citations. Easy to gauge the visibility and

influence of scholarly publications.

Users Benefits

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15,000+ journals, including 5,400 health sciences titles.

Nearly 100 health sciences databases (licensed and free).

Images and streaming videos. Point of care products/clinical

resources. 900 e-books.

University Libraries Collections

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Many providers, many platforms Complicated subscription models DRM limitations Discoverability – static web pages Time consuming maintenance

Known Issues

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In-scope e-books available through:o Online catalogo Manually maintained static webpage

listings E-books included in various databases

not listed

Current Access

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Improve access and discoverability of the licensed e-bookso Ability to search for a titleo Ability to link to the content

Decrease the amount of manual work required to maintain static web pages with e-book listings

Our Goals

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Why Now?

Growing e-book collection o In need of more efficient way to manage o Improving access to e-book content

Link resolver enhancementso Introduction of separate e-book indexo E-Books search featureo Home-grown A-Z e-book listing o Ability to link to e-books from search

results pages

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E-Books On Static Web Pages

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Current E-Book Listing

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Beta Testing

450+ books activated Different platforms, different providers: Ovid,

StatRef, MD Consult, McGraw-Hill, R2 Data quality E-Books residing on a separate server

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Searching E-Books

B E T AB E T A

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Accessing E-Books

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Browsing E-Books

B E T A

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More E-Book Browsing

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Challenges

Maintaining and updating two SFX servers (e-journals and e-books) for separate A-Z listings

Dealing with different platforms and different providers (data quality).

Issues with searching.

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Improve discoverability of e-books Allow users to link to e-books full text

content directly from search results Ability to search for the e-books titles A-Z listing for e-books (currently

available through local customization, commercial version coming soon.)

Users Benefits

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Maximizing access to licensed e-book content, including out of scope titles.

Improved usage, more cost effective More effective updating

Benefits for the Library

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Next steps

Going live with e-book searching and browsing

Changes/modifications Publicity Feedback from users

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Thank You!

Questions? Please Contact:

Elizabeth Sosnowska: sosnowsk@umdnj.edu

Yingting Zhang: yzhang@umdnj.edu