How Libraries Use Publisher Metadata - Crossref Community Webinar

Editor's Notes

• #3: It’s not just about the catalog. Libraries provide access to resources through additional systems.
• #4: LINE BY LINE ANIMATION. CLICK AT THE END TO KEEP THIS SLIDE ON. DON’T READ EACH BULLET...JUST THERE FOR BACKGROUND
• #5: ANIMATION. CLICK FOR EACH SECTION. It’s not possible to provide this amount of service without the systems we’ll talk about today.
• #11: Richard has been told by one of his advisors that he should review some of the work being done by World Bank on passenger transportation pricing incentives. Richard’s advisor remembers there was a relatively recent study done in Mexico City that was published in a World Bank series.
• #16: The citation is often referred to as the “source” and the individual services or referred to as “targets”
• #17: Not to be confused with the computer science/expert system definition of a knowledge base. A knowledgebase is typically presented in the form of a spreadsheet that lists information about all of the electronic resources a library licenses on behalf of their customers. Generally includes: title (either journal or book) book author identifiers (ISBN, ISSN) journal coverage resource provider (ie, online publisher or content provider) URL
• #18: HEAVY ANIMATION User starts in Web of Science, identifies an article they’re interested in. In this case, the user is in Web of Sciences and finds an article with the title “Improving Group Attention” which is published in the Sept 2011 issue of “Group Decision and Negotiation” (a Springer Journal) User click on purple “Check for Full-Text” button. This sends an OpenURL from Web of Science to the link resolver (resolver.lib). This is part of the OpenURL that is sent by WoS. Notice the citation elements in the URL (including date, ISSN, article DOI). We will look at a complete OpenURL in a minute. Resolver parses the citation elements, checks the ISSN and date against the KB and identifies the Springer version as having the full-text. The data about Springer journal titles are provided by Springer to Serials Solutions (actually Serials Solutions grabs the metadata (title/ISSN/dates/links) from the Springer download site on a monthly basis (see note below). UW Libraries staff then profile their specific subscriptions against the Serials Solutions KB. Link resolver knows the rules to create a target URL and sends user session to the full-text of that article
• #19: Overview of the link resolver steps we just walked through
• #20: ANIMATION. This is the openURL sent by Web of Science (note sid/www.isinet.com:WoK). Looks like a lot of complication until you format it to see that the OpenURL essentially consists of two elements: Link resolver address (in this case, ql3dq7xx6q.search.serialssolutions.com) Citation elements In order for link resolvers to function properly, citation metadata coming from a source must be accurate. In most cases, this data is originally coming from you, the publisher.
• #21: The next three slides are examples illustrating why libraries use link resolvers. In general they provide better or additional access to a resource than what the library is able to supply through the traditional library catalog or from it’s physical collection. ANIMATION. Without the link resolver, the user has drill down through the library catalog and then through the journal website to get to the article full-text. Click through the drill-down process. SEVEN clicks to get to the full-text article through the library catalog. On a side note, there are still some library staff who attempt to show users this method for getting to a full-text article. In cases where link resolution fails, this may be what the user has to do.
• #22: ANIMATION. The library may get access to electronic full-text through a source besides directly from the publisher. In this example, the user goes directly to the Springer website and can’t get to the article because the the library doesn’t subscribe to the content. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science is a Springer journal and this specific article is available from the Springer website but the UW doesn’t subscribe to it from Springer. Instead KB indicates that the issue in question is available from an EBSCOHost database. The Link Resolver works with the KB to identify which source is the most appropriate source for the full text.
• #23: ANIMATION. Get the user to a service that will get the content if the library doesn’t license it. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science is a Springer journal and this specific article is available from the Springer website but the UW doesn’t subscribe to it. However, the UW may have the journal in print or may have a reciprocal borrowing relationship with another library for print. So if the link resolver, can’t find an online version, the user is giving options to find another version (or to fill out a request to have it scanned). Every library customizes the services offered depending on it’s own borrowing arrangements, library catalog, etc. Some libraries provide links to related full-text databases (with the idea that if the library doesn’t subscribe to *this* article, there may be other articles in XYZ database which would serve the user’s purpose.
• #32: Working in cooperative systems, library catalogers could do it all when the only records we created were for books (not articles) physically held in the library. Those days are long gone.