This is a presentation about the Scholars Portal, which is a suite of shared information resources and services centrally managed by a consortium of 20 university libraries in Ontario, Canada (OCUL)

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Western UniversityScholarship@WesternWestern Libraries Staff Presentations Western Libraries11-1-2007Scholars Portal: The Canadian ExperienceKaren MarshallUniversity of Western Ontario, karen.marshall@uwo.caFollow this and additional works at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wlpresPart of the Information and Library Science CommonsCitation of this paper:Marshall, Karen, "Scholars Portal: The Canadian Experience" (2007). Western Libraries Staff Presentations. Paper 2.http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wlpres/2Scholars PortalThe Canadian ExperienceKaren MarshallActing Associate University LibrarianUniversity of Western Ontario Charleston ConferenceNov 7-10, 2007Agenda What is Ontario Scholars Portal?Ontario Scholars PortalWhat is it? A suite of shared information resources and services Acquired and managed centrally by a consortium of 20 University libraries (OCUL)Goals Centrally mount and deliver information resources acquired through OCUL consortia purchases to ensure rapid and reliable access. Provide for the long term, secure archiving of resources to ensure continued availability.  Ensure that resources and services address the needs of faculty, students and staff. Ensure that resources and services can be seamlessly integrated with the local library and campus information system.Content Initiated in 2001, with $7.6 million in funding from the Ontario Innovation Trust (provincial funding in support of research matching CFI funding to CNSLP/CRKN), Scholars Portal offers a unique set of shared information resources and services. From 2006 forward, sustainability of technological infrastructure funded by OCUL members. Coverage of most disciplines, with a concentration in the basic and health sciences, but growing social sciences and humanities offerings. Began 2002 with government grants for research infrastructure Participation in this cooperative initiative enables the Library to do more than would have been possible independentlyScholars PortalGoals To provide access to scholarly electronic resources through a set of tools which allows the networked scholar to search, save and integrate these resources with their teaching and research to foster greater learning opportunities.Success? 12,568,686 articles from 8,135  journals archived journals representing (4M more than Science Direct) and larger than any other aggregation that we are aware of 010000002000000300000040000005000000YearDownloadsYear 2004 2005 2006 2007Downloads 4,043,767 4,812,337 4,871,657 3,129,9031 2 3 4 Segments Illumina RACER SFXProductsScholars Portal E-Journals Statistics• over 150 million A&I records in SP Illumina -- bigger that OCLC and Scopus (not sure about Google Scholar) 57 Canadian schools using Refworks representing over 700,000 FTE students and faculty Canadian problems – Patriot Act 410 days between reboots of the SFX OpenURL server (i.e. the highest quality of IT management available, equally available to all OCUL schools regardless of size and local staffing) a serious commitment to archiving of e-journals that no jurisdiction anywhere in the world can match Scholars Portal Search Uses Illumina Introduced January 2005 (March 1ston local server) •Single place to find scholarly resources from many sources •Citations to scholarly articles ContentCitations Now53 databases23 million April+ Publishers’ data7 million May+ ISI (Web of Science)35 million September+ More databases35 million 100 million 57 Canadian schools using Refworks representing over 700,000 FTE students and faculty Canadian problems – Patriot Act 410 days between reboots of the SFX OpenURL server (i.e. the highest quality of IT management available, equally available to all OCUL schools regardless of size and local staffing) a serious commitment to archiving of e-journals that no jurisdiction anywhere in the world can match  allows users to search 41 catalogues from institutions in Ontario, Canada, U.S. & the U.K.  62 libraries at 16 institutions are currently using RACER  as of August 31, 2005 there are over 1 million requests in the system  number of active user accounts registered to use RACER, 299,696  over 2,670,000 articles downloaded from Scholars Portal from January - June 2005.  the month with the most downloads was March 2005 with 673,000 downloads.  top downloaded title is The Lancet with over 87,000 articles downloaded from July 2002-July 2005  2006 – ScienceServer downloads 4,834,349 2006 - Refworks sessions 502,457 2006 – Illumina searches 1, 495,000 Future E-book service – archiving  Databases * (Sage Full-Text Journals)Arts & Humanities•ARTbibliographiesModern •Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals •British Humanities Index •Design and Applied Arts Index •Index Islamicus•Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts •MLA Directory of Periodicals •MLA International Bibliography •Philosopher`sIndex Natural Sciences•AGRICOLA •Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts •Biological Sciences •Biology Digest •Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts •Conference Papers Index •Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management •GeoRef•GeoRefIn Process •MEDLINE •Meteorological & GeoastrophysicalAbstracts •NTIS •Nursing & Health Sciences* •Oceanic Abstracts •Plant Science •TOXLINE •Zoological Record Social Sciences•AgeLine•Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts •Communication Abstracts •Communication Studies* •Criminal Justice Abstracts •Criminology * •EconLit•Education* •ERIC•International Bibliography of the Social Sciences •Library and Information Science Abstracts •Management & Organization Studies* •PAIS International •Physical Education Index •Political Science* •Psychology* •PsycINFO•Social Services Abstracts •Sociological Abstracts •Sociology* •Urban Studies & Planning* •Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Technology•Computer Abstracts International Database •CSA Technology Research Database •Information Research Watch International •Materials Science* •MicroPatentMaterials Patents  A consortium of the 20 university libraries in Ontario       Over 400,000 users (faculty, students, staff) Over $250M/year in total expenditures Over $100M/year for collections $40M/year for digital resources $2.5M/year to sustain technological infrastructure Accountability to funders – institutional and provincial Centrally mount and deliver information resources acquired through OCUL consortia purchases to ensure rapid and reliable access. Provide for the long term, secure archiving of resources to ensure continued availability.  Ensure that resources and services address the needs of faculty, students and staff. Ensure that resources and services can be seamlessly integrated with the local library and campus information system.

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