1. Linking Courseware to Library Resources Using OpenURL: Experience, Possibilities, and Future Directions David W. Lewis, IUPUI University Library Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris Chris Awre, Program Manager, JISC CNI, April 28, 2002

2. Defining the Problem David W. Lewis IUPUI University Library dlewis@iupui.edu

3. Defining the Problem What do faculty, students, and librarians want? What does the course management and information environment look like? What are the components of a solution

4. What Do Faculty Want? “Faculty want access to local resources (electronic reserves), database subscriptions, web materials, etc. all accessible through and easy to use citation creator. I know that I’m not telling you anything you don’t know…

5. What Do Faculty Want? … this should, of course, be managed by a CMS that has single authentication and appropriate authorization to materials based on their role in the enterprise.” — Jay Fern, Enterprise Services/Systems Liaison, UITS, Indiana University

6. What Do Faculty Want? To be able to locate or identify materials relevant to their courses –Known items –Items found by searching or browsing Capture a link to these items Insert the link into a CMS (or other web pages) so students can easily link to the material

7. What Do Students Want? One click access to all of the required readings from the course management system With no additional authorization required Access from anywhere

8. What Do Libraries What? Maximum use of previously purchased electronic content Minimize labor use for electronic reserves and minimize the cost of copyright fees for electronic reserves Recognition of library’s contribution — Branding

9. Environment Course Management Systems Library Resources –Purchased Content –Electronic Reserves Open Web Resources –Web pages –Documents in Databases (Repositories)

10. Purchased Content Most important because: –Large institutional investment –The best stuff - what the faculty want to use

11. Purchased Content Many vendors/systems - No common interface or standard linking protocol Some systems have persistent links, some do not Content is unstable Established mechanisms of bibliographic control - the catalog - do not help much

12. Environment

14. Key Question For purchased content, how do we make a citation work as a link?

15. Citation/Link Should definitively identify the object - the traditional role of a citation Should find the “appropriate copy” in a given domain - challenge of the current purchase content environment Should be in open - useable from any web page

16. Answer: OpenURL Citation/Link is an object which has a visible component which looks like a traditional citation Embedded in the object is an OpenURL which can be used to retrieve full-text in a specific domain

17. Citation/Link - What You See Maryam Alavi; Bradley C. Wheeler; Joseph S. Valacich, “Using IT to Reengineer Business Education: An Exploratory Investigation of Collaborative Telelearning,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, Special Issue on IS Curricula and Pedagogy. (Sep., 1995), pp. 293-312.

18. Citation Link - Underlying OpenURL http://sfx.ulib.iupui.edu/sfx_local?genre=article&issn= 02767783&title=MIS%20Quarterly&volume=19&issue =3&date=19950901&atitle=Using%20IT%20to%20re engineer%20business%20education%3A%20An%20 exploratory%20investigation%20of%20collaborative %2E%2E%2E&spage=293&sid=EBSCO:afh&pid=%3 Cauthors%3EAlavi%2C%20Maryam%3BWheeler%2 C%20Bradley%20C%2E%3C/authors%3E%3Cui%3 E9512120051%3C/ui%3E%3Cdate%3E19950901%3 C/date%3E%3Cdb%3Eafh%3C/db%3E

19. Answer: OpenURL 1. Faculty member uses citation/link creator to search library databases 2. Citation/Link Creator captures OpenURL citation 3. OpenURL citation/link embedded in CMS web page 4. Student clicks on OpenURL citation/link 5. OpenURL Resolver find full-text

20. Complexities Acquiring citation is done in different ways –Know Item - Use OpenURL Resolver or Federated Search Engine –Subject Searching or Browsing No standard for citation/link