ANGEL and Direct Linking to electronic journal articles Ranti Junus Michigan State University Libraries ANGEL User Group May 2004

ANGEL and Libraries at MSU ● ANGEL was officially launched in Fall 2003 ● A team from the MSU Libraries was formed to investigate Libraries' resources integration into ANGEL ● Representative from Copy Center/Course Reserve, Public Services/Reference, Collection Management/Bibliographers, Systems, Technical Services

About the Libraries ● Main library and nine branch libraries across campus ● Approximately 4.5 million volumes ● More than 300 indexes/databases ● More than 28,000 periodicals, 200,000 maps, and 40,000 sound recordings ● Serve about students, 4500 faculties, 6000 staff and community users ● On campus and online programs (more than 200 program study)

What we already have ● Research guides for specific discipline ● guides to aid users in locating subject-specific resources ● Some course-specific guides ● Online Catalogue ● Electronic Resource Gateway

What we'd like to see ● Faculty, staff and students utilize our online catalogue and licensed electronic materials to full capacity ● Benefits ● No copyright clearance needed ● Available 24/77 ● Authoritative resources for research purposes (Google is not the ultimate answer)

What we have so far ● Finding ways to create durable or stable links so users can go to the full text article directly ● For faculty ● Integrate electronic resources into course content or syllabus ● For students ● One-click access from ANGEL ● No need to go to a separate browser to access the article

Where we are now ● Presentations, trainings ● How to create stable links ● Copyright ● Organization ● Help pages ● Links to existing guides ● Learning new features from ANGEL latest release (v.6)

Next project ● Class notes, journal articles within an MSU online subscription, journal articles that are not in an MSU online resources ● Will do a pilot project this summer with three courses: two on campus, one online ● Issues: policies, workflow, staff resources, copyright, cost, P.R. Course electronic reserve

Next... GRL Course ACourse BCourse C Common Resource 1 Common Resource 2 Utilizing ANGEL new feature – Global Resource Library (GRL)

Next… ● GRL for e-reserve – test this Summer ● GRL for subject guides? ● Caveat: students can only see these guides if faculty create links to them. ● See Andy Detskas presentation tomorrow on using GRL as a central repository for help documents

Further Steps ● We’re still learning ● Assign team of staff to work on this e-reserve project ● Hopefully we can start offering this service in Fall 2004 ● Questions?