Programme Directors:

Anne Bell (Kings College, London) for DocusendPeter Burnhill (EDINA) for X-grain & ZBLSAMalcolm Smith (British Library) for ZETOC

JOIN-UP Programme

JOIN-UP Seminar on Reference

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JOIN-UP: A JISC 5/99 Cluster

• four projects: Docusend, Xgrain, ZBLSA & ZETOC

• initially conceived as four separate projects– three as proposals to the JISC 5/99 Call to create

infrastructure for JISC DNER

• now ‘closely-clustered’ as JOIN-UP Programme

• working together to create the DNER infrastructure for journal articles & the like

four ‘demand-side’ verbs

• discover information object of interesteg an article found in bibliographic citation or Abstract & Index

databases (eg BIOSIS, WoS, etc)

• locate organisation offering service eg serial via library catalogues - union catalogues

• request use of servicevia payment or privilege from membership (of university, etc)

• access object of interestconsult article

via personal visit, document delivery, online access

verbs based on MODELS workshops (UKOLN/JISC eLib)

need to ‘verify’ object being sought‘identifier’ provides the linchpin

Verifyidentification of article/serial

Locatearticle/serial

service

Requestaccess/deliveryof article/serial

Accessarticle of interest

Discoverarticle of interest

draws on work by ISSN-IC & CASA Project (EU 4th Framework)

Need to find way through present offerings in DNER

Desk top

Local Inst.

SubjectRDN

OtherPortal

A&I Database

Discover

Datacentre

Union ListOPAC

Datacentre Datacentre

Libraries Aggregators Publishers

Other Information Organisations

Printed Volume:Local/Remote

Electronic Versions

Document Delivery

Locate

Access

Request

A&I Database

A&I Database

A&I Database

Four JOIN-UP Projects

• two initially conceived as ‘end-to-end’ services for document deliveryDocusend: integrating document delivery services

ZETOC: use of electronic table of contents, to alert & then to link to article delivery service

• two ‘functional brokers’: discover & locateXgrain: cross-searching A&I databases, students in mind

ZBLSA: Z39.50 broker locating services on articles

A Joined-Up View of Discover - Locate - Request - Access

Portals:

Projects:

Rights:

Medium:

Geography:

Sources:

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Local Inst.

Subject

RDN

Other

ZETOC X-Grain ZBLSA DOCUSEND

Subscriber Non-Subscriber

Print PrintElectronic Electronic

Local LocalRemote Remote

OPACAggregator/Publisher

Union ListDocument Delivery Service

MyLibrary ThatLibrary

ZBLSA - a ‘locate’ project

• aim: to investigate what is required of a locate broker for services on articles

• objective: to deliver a pilot facility during 2001 that meets needs of portals in the DNER

• input: reference to article + info on requester• activity: locate services on article• output: list of services ‘appropriate’ to requester• seek guidance from seminar participants

– on identifiers, on protocols

– on qualities of the ‘Rosetta Stone’ Broker

Portals

AuthorisationRights

Sources

Desk top

Local Library

Subject

RDN

L &T

OLE

ETOCsXgrain

A&I

‘Rosetta’

‘Other’

Subscriber: Authorised by Privilege of Membership

Non-Subscriber: Authorised by Payment of Money

Aggregator/

Publisher

Document Delivery ServiceMyLibrary

ThatLibrary

Datacentre

A&I

Locator/Broker