ILDS, Tallinn, September 21, 2005

Jindřiška PospíšilováNational Library of the Czech Republic

Uniform Information Gateway

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Project history

• Uniform Information Gateway for hybrid libraries (pilot project of the National Library of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague; 2001)

• STM Portal – joining of the project – State technical library + 11 other institutions (2002)

• UIG – LPIS 8 (VISK 8) – other institutions and resources were connected

national/international project(Czech and Slovak Virtual Union Catalogue)

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Goals

• integration of heterogeneous information resources and offering new, uniform and user-friendly access to them

• creating a comprehensive and easy-to-understand map of collections available in Czech libraries; closer coordination in the development and utilization of collections – by Conspectus

• subject access transformation

• Czech national subject gateway

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Integration

• integrated access to information on documents and to the primary documents themselves

• uniform user-friendly interface• uniform query input and display of results• merge and de-duplication of results• authentication and authorization-based

services configuration of a personalized environment, including a list of frequently accessed resources and a personal cataloguing area with a possibility of changing the format

• save queries and results options• no need for repeated logins and logouts

(single sign-in to the array of resources)• extended services

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Tools

• MetaLib• SFX• Conspectus

http://www.jib.cz

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Services

• access to heterogeneous information resources

• extended services – Citation Linker• My space - configuration of a

personalized environment• copy cataloging• training, user guidebooks• info-portal

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Information resources

Czech – free accessible:• union catalogues • library OPACs (national, county and special

libraries)• other bibliographic resources

Foreign – free accessible:• catalogues • full-text resources (PubMed, HighWire Press)

Licensed resources – IP address

over 80 resources for retrieval over 110 resources processed in our knowledge base

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Information resources

Czech books• Books published in the CR• Books news• Czech national bibliography – Czech books• Books announced to the National ISBN Agency

Czech articles • databases provided by county and city libraries,

NL database – for retrieval • branch databases – provided by branch libraries

and by institutes of the Academy of Sciences (e.g. National Medical Library, Institute of History, National Film Archive, Institute of Czech Literature, Central Agricultural Library, …) – for information only, with the link to native interface

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My space

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Extended services

• SFX – tool collecting on one site an offer of relevant extended services for concrete document

• Extended services for :– holding status – full text, abstract – information on authors – related documents according to the

subject and title– book reviews – electronic document delivery and ILL

… 24 targets in total at present

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Targets services

catalogues in systems Aleph, TinWeb, Lanius, Advanced Rapid Library lending/loan status, availability in CR union catalogues availability in CR Ebsco, ProQuest 5000, ScienceDirect, Literature Online, EJS abstract, fulltext – availability in CRportals – EZB (Electronic Journals Library), STM , HighWire Press,… abstract, fulltextVPK STK, DoDo NK ČR Document Delivery Services Britannica, encyclopedia COTO.JE author´s information Amazon.com, Vltava.cz book reviews Google, Altavista, Excite … related documents

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UIG and DDS

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Extended services in different resources

• union catalogues• library OPACs • licensed databases (WorldCat,

ESPM Database, EBSCO, …)

• UIG - Citation Linker

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Charles University Union Catalogue

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WorldCat – availability in CR

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EBSCO – availability in CR

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Citation Linker

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Copy cataloging

• used from 2002, modified in March 2004

• conversion of bibliographic and authority records between UNIMARC and MARC21

• library profile (parameters of library system used, format, coding,.. and determined catalogues)

• exchange of records via Z39.50 protocol • library must use the Z39.50 client

(integrated in the automated library systém or external)

• free of charge• more than 50 libraries

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Library profile - application

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Example of use

Requestfrom client

PROFILE:

1. NK ČR2. MZK3. SVK Olom.

NK ČR

MZK

SVK Olomouc

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Remote resources are searched sequentially

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Work is done! (downloaded record is merged in a new record)

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Training, user guidebook …

Info-portal

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New version – ML and SFX version 3

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New services

• Quick sets (Books in Czechia, Czech articles, Foreign books, Foreign articles)

• QuickSearch and MetaSearch

• My space – new personalized environment

• Extented services – new targets – Google Scholar, Wiley

InterScience, Kluwer – new service – Ask a librarian– list of e-journals

• Info-portal

http://www.jib.cz

contact: jib-support@cuni.cz

Thank you for your attention.