1. Managing SFX: Collaboration between ILTS & E-Collections Nisa Bakkalbasi Electronic Collections Librarian Este Pope Systems Librarian CDC Meeting Yale University Library February 22, 2007

2. Today’s Talk What is SFX? Who uses it and why? How is it managed?

3. What is SFX Generically referred as “context-sensitive link server.” SFX is the proprietary name devised by ExLibris. We renamed it “Yale Links.”

4. It starts in a database…

5. How it works? Source window Services window Target window

6. Service menu: we have it in full text!

7. Service menu: we don’t have it in full text!

8. More than full text …

9. Bringing Google users back to the library collection

10. Number of requests and clickthroughs From January 1, 2007 to February 17, 2007: There have been 106,333 requests and 78,328 clickthroughs. Number of requests per source: PubMed 26,428 OVID Medline16,885 EBSCO 13,423 Web of Science 10,169 Google Scholar 9,028

11. Most popular journals Billboard (13,424) The New England journal of medicine (846) Science (789) Journal of the American Chemical Society (723) Nature (668) JAMA (597)

12. Number of clickthroughs per target E-Journals lookup (10,793) Orbis lookup (7,698) EbscoHost Academic Search Premier (7,529) Elsevier Freedom Collection (7,476) Ovid Journals (4,297)

13. A shared responsibility Systems Librarian Service menu configurations and look and feel Systems Programmer Server and software maintenance Electronic Collections Librarian Knowledgebase management and target issues

14. ILTS and E-collections signs a contract - May 2006 E-Collections Manage contents of the database. Respond to forwarded target error/repair issues. Create documentation and provide training for the knowledge base maintenance team. ILTS Monthly updates, software updates, upgrades Troubleshooting problem reports Interface configuration, enhancements

15. Please forward all Yale Links questions to Este and Nisa. Thank you!