making best use of jisc ecollections: historical texts, journal archives and mediahub - hazel white
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Making best use of Jisc eCollections: Historical Texts, Journal Archives and MediaHubHazel White, Account manager, JiscScott Gibbens, Senior service manager, Jisc eCollections
What we do?
We deliver services that support the procurement, management and discovery and use of content for UK research and education
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Digital content
Making content available to support teaching and research
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Resource discovery
Enabling researchers and students to discover the rich resources held across libraries and archives in the UK
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Library Support and Analytics Services
Helping libraries more efficiently manage
their collections
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jisc.ac.uk/content/open-access
Enabling UK higher education to realise the rewards of open access
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Engagement challenges
» Discoverability»Delivery barriers»Changing technologies»Digital behaviours»Digital capabilities»“Digital resources” can mean many different
things
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Meeting the challenge
» Understanding digital students, learners and staff» Reducing technology barriers» Addressing digital literacy and capability» Effective use of data» Accessibility and inclusion» Communication» Building trust relationships» Collaboration
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Making the most of our support
Account managers and subject specialists are working with our DR services to ensure members are able to make the most of digital resources and library services
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Historical texts
A closer look – historical texts
» It includes over 350,000 items including books and some periodicals
» The materials date from 1473-1914. These are scans of the original materials from libraries around the world
» Jisc purchased these materials from commercial publishers (Proquest and Cengage) to make them available at an affordable price for our members
» We created our own service to keep the costs down, present one interface and respond to our users requirements
» Around 80 universities and 30 colleges currently subscribe to the service
Historical texts is a subscription service from Jisc
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Historical texts – listening to our users
» When the service was built we consulted with colleagues – we had an established advisory board and set up a user group
» We built the service using agile two week sprints. After each “sprint” we held online demonstrations to ask questions and get feedback from our community
» The Historical Texts Advisory Board is an important part of how we develop the service. They are experts in their field (we are not Historians or English specialists) so they can advise on presentation of the data
» The Advisory Board also help us prioritise new developments» New developments coming up: New content, new features,
improved indexing of current data, better variant spelling, visualisations….
A key aspect of historical texts is responding to our users needs
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A quick look at some of the features:
» Variant spellings» Results screen» Book viewer
https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
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Journal Archives
» Each title in the archive is available from the start of the Journal to a fixed end date› Brill from Vol 1 to 2009› Institute of Physics (IOP) Journal Archive (1874-1998)› Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals Archive (1841-2004)› Taylor & Francis Geography, Planning, Urban and Environment
Online Archive (1885 to 1996)› Cambridge University Press up to 1827-1996› Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library Archive (1836-
2001)› Periodicals Archive Online - Jisc Collections Selection (1891 –
2000)› Oxford Journals Archive and Archive Upgrade
(Oxford University Press) (1849 - 1995)
Journal Archives has archives from eight publishers plus Spare Rib
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Journal Archives
» Spare Rib (no subscription required)› Spare Rib battled oppression and gave a voice to the
struggles, discussions and debates of diverse groups of women over the 21 years it was in print (1972-1993)
› Spare Rib was digitised by the British Library and hosted by Journal Archives in partnership with the BL
Journal Archives has archives from eight publishers plus Spare Rib
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Journal Archives - a quick view
» A quick tour around Journal Archives showing how to search and download information as well as browse Spare Rib
https://journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk/
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MediaHub – a whole new start
» The MediaHub service, currently being provided by EDINA is being decommissioned
» Jisc have decided to launch a new service to host the Jisc data that was hosted by MediaHub, and we are currently signing contracts with the new supplier
» At present what I can say is that for the next year the price will remain the same, and you will have a new interface in a service many of you are already familiar with
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Scott Gibbens, Senior service manager, Jisc [email protected]
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