L’Emeroteca Virtuale … L’Emeroteca Virtuale … goes mobile!goes mobile!

SELL Meeting – Porto 3-4 June 2011

Ugo Contino – Gino Farinelli – Stefano De Luca Ugo Contino – Gino Farinelli – Stefano De Luca Servizi di Automazione per le BibliotecheServizi di Automazione per le Biblioteche

ugo.contino@caspur.it – – gino.farinelli@caspur.it – – stefano.deluca@caspur.it

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Emeroteca Virtuale

Digital platform run by CASPUR

Storage, access to almost 6000 full text journals from various publishers (Elsevier, Springer, IOPP, Emerald) about 9 million articles

Accessible only to CIBER members

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Why “emme-roteca”?

Higher demand on mobile devices

Users tend to be always wired

To be in line with other content providers

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“emme-roteca” Virtuale…

Project plan In house development (March- May 2010) Basic functionalities Technology: software open-source Service available only for registered users

Who has access to the M- Emeroteca virtuale?

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PDA, Smartphones, Blackberry, Tablet PC

Operating system: Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone OS

Browser: Safari, Opera mini, IE mobile, nokia browser

Technological choices

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• Content adptation to small screen

• Semplification of layout and navigation menu

• Pages lightness

Mobile sites – general features

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Resolution 240 x 360 pixel Simple navigation menu Page centered (contents) No horizontal page scrolling Limited scroll vertical page scrolling Link size (max 40 px, height) Short url Page weight (max 10 – 20 kb)

Development

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Nokia Framework Easy management of CSS for mobile

environment Availability of html template for porting

web sites to a mobile environment Rich library of support tools (tweaks)

General Features (1)

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Service reserved to registered users Search functionalities

“Simple Search” Journals browsing by: Publisher Title Category

General features (2)

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Visualization of bibliographic page Visualization and download of full text

articles (PDF)) Access to news and announcments Articles saving * Search history *

* synchronized with standard environment

Functionalities which are not available

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These functions were eliminated: Advanced search Citations visualizations * HTML version of articles* username/password recovery

[ * These pages were to heavy for a mobile context]

How to access

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http://m-periodici.caspur.it http://periodici.caspur.it

Automatic access through http_user_agent and automatic readdressing on url mobile (autodetect)

http://periodici.caspur.it/mobile http://periodici.caspur.it/m

Almost a year later

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Launched in June 2010Presented at CIBER Annual Seminar (June 2010)Stable use since September 2010Message sent to all registered membersArticles downloaded (Sept- Dec. 2010): 1570Articles downloaded (Jan- April 2011): 132445 registered users used it (2010)70 registered users use it regularly out of 3000registered users (2011)Users from non CIBER university asked