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WISER Teaching:
Electronic Resources in
Teaching and Learning
Angela Carritt
Kate Alderson-Smith
Session Outline
• Existing gateways to e-resources
• Developments in e-resources over the
coming year
• Promoting e-resources to your students
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Linking reading lists
External access to e-resources
Training materials and opportunities
Fostering good practice
Materials for your Web site or VLE
Existing gateways & tools
• OLIS – http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
• Oxlip – http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip
• TD Net - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/tdnet
• Tour -
OLIS
• Library catalogue for Oxford University
• Best way to find printed materials in Oxford
• Coverage of e-resources currently poor
Oxlip
• Gateway to online resources
• Subscription resources + some free resources
• Huge variety
– Bibliographic information (e.g. indexes) / full text
(e.g. online journal, e-books) / data (e.g. statistics),
current awareness services (e.g. alerting)
– Digitized texts / online print equivalent (e.g.
journals) / e-only
– Format? Web resource / CD ROM / third party
software?
– Access? - password? / external access?
A-Z of all resources
Multi-disciplinary
resources organised
by genre
All about Libraries
Resources
organised by
subject
The history page on Oxlip has
organised resources by
genre
TD Net
• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/tdnet
• Catalogue of online journals with links to full
text
• Excellent resource for locating an online copy
of a known journal title
• Not recommended for subject searching
E.g. TD Net
Enter words from the journal title or browse the
alphabetical list.
Note: Search for journal titles NOT article titles
Note: Do not use acronyms/abbreviations
Follow the links to the see the
full text. Note date range
TOUR
• “Open URL resolver”
• Creates links from references to full text
e.g.
– title on TD Net to full text of the journal
– article title returned by an indexing service to the full text on
a different database (e.g. Web of Science link to JSTOR)
– document on a reading list to the full text of that document
• TOUR links are now available from many of our
bibliographic and indexing services
(e.g. Web of Knowledge, Electronic Reference
Library, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, many of the
specialist indexing services)
• Look out for the icon
e.g. TOUR links on a
results page in Web
of Science
e.g. Having followed
the link the user has
a range of options
for viewing the full
text.
e.g. Full text on BioOne
Forthcoming developments…OLIS
• New version of OLIS
– September 2006
Forthcoming developments…Meta-search
engine
• Approx January 2007
• Whole new approach to resource discovery
and online searching
Features include:
• Ability to search for databases/resources in a
subject area (e.g. all the databases on US
literature / human rights / plant genetics…)
• Cross searching of multiple e-resources
simultaneously
• Some personalization (e.g. saved searches)
e.g. the Yale metasearch
• http://www.library.yale.edu/databases/
e.g. Yale University Metasearch engine
Promoting e-resources to students
• Linked reading lists
• Providing information
– external access
– training materials and opportunities
• Promoting e-resources through your web
page or VLE
Linked reading lists
Are they a good idea?
• Save time particularly for students on short
intensive courses
• Students do not have to develop search skills
which can disadvantage them later when they
do research
Linked Reading Lists
What can be linked?
• Books / print - holdings records on OLIS
• Full text online resources
(e.g. journal articles, e-books, datasets)
• Local digitized materials
Example of a linked reading
list for Competition Law
Links to holding
record on OLIS
Links to full text on the
Justis database
e.g. following the link to
Whish takes the user to the
holding record on OLIS
e.g. following the citation
link takes the user to the
full text on Justis
Linking to OLIS
• Easy to do - but wait for the new OLIS
Deep linking to journal articles, e-texts
• Most articles do not have the same URL every time
• Do not copy and paste URLs from your browser
address bar into your reading list
• 3 solutions:
– Some publishers provide a stable URL (a.k.a Static / Durable
URL) this will always link to the correct place
– Some publishers provide a tool which builds a URL
incorporating a search query that will always link to the
correct place
– If the article is available on an indexing service which has
TOUR links you can copy the URL from TOUR (e.g. right
click on the TOUR icon and choose “copy shortcut”)
How to find out about deep linking?
• Go to the web page for the journal or publisher and
look for links to Durable/Static/Stable URLs
• Use the help option and look for durable URLS /
creating links / deep linking / information for
librarians
• Ask your Librarian or the publisher (use contacts to
find an e-mail address for their help line)
• If in doubt link to TD Net instead
• Course on reading lists Tue 13 Jun 12:30-13:30
e.g. finding a stable URL on JSTOR
e.g. finding a stable URL in JSTOR
e.g. finding a
stable URL in
Periodicals
Archive Online
Can I create digital copy for my students?
• Yes, but…
• Creation of digital copy is subject to UK © laws.
• Any extract that you want to digitise has to be
– one chapter or less than 5% of a book.
– one journal article or less than 5% of a journal issue.
• All scanned extracts must be © cleared (through the
CLA or other third-party service) or be covered by a
current licence.
• Digitised material needs to be housed securely [e.g.
within VLE or some other password protected space]
• Processes involved can be costly, time-consuming
and staff-intensive
Can I create digital copy for my students?
• Good news – the new CLA Digitisation Licence
covers the digitising of UK texts to support teaching
and learning within institutions that have signed up.
• Bad news – compliance to the licence will be
monitored closely, with regular visits and a 6th
monthly audit.
• Bad news – US and other non-UK published material
is not covered. Separate © clearance needs to be
sought.
Can I create digital copy for my students?
• Still interested?
• WISER session will cover the new licence
and talk in more detail about how to obtain
copyright clearance on non-UK material.
WISER Teaching : Copyright Law
Tuesday, 6 June (7)
External access
• Most online resources are password free
from within Oxford but not from outside
• Make sure your students know how to access
materials when they are away from Oxford
• Information on Library and OUCS web sites
Access from outside Oxford
• Athens
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Personal username and password
Gives access to many resources (but not everything)
Will probably not work for linked reading lists
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
• VPN
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Allows the user to join the Oxford network from outside
Access to everything as if the user is in Oxford
Username and password + software
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/vpn/
• Your subject library may have subject specific
information on their web site
Training
• Make sure your students know about training
opportunities
• Classes
– OULS Information skills web site http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/information_skills
– OUCS - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/learning/
– Web pages or VLE pages produced by your
subject library
• Self taught tutorials / user guides
– Your subject library web site or VLE pages
Example of an Informs tutorial
Searching tips for students
• Think carefully about your search (what are
the concepts involved, are there any
synonyms / variant spellings, are there any
meanings that they wish to exclude)
• Use connectors between searches (AND,
OR, NOT, NEAR)
Boolean operators
• AND - search results must include all search terms
e.g. Spain AND civil AND war
• OR - search results must include one search term or
the other or both. Use this to cover synonyms
e.g. child or infant
• Proximity Operators - specifies that search terms
must appear near to one another. Proximity
operators improve the relevancy of results but not all
databases allow them. Notation varies - see
database “help” pages e.g. civil SAME war / civil
NEAR war / civil w/6 war etc.
• “phrase searching” – search results include the
words as entered e.g. “human rights”
• NOT - excludes a term e.g. “civil war” NOT spain to
find items on civil war but to exclude the Spanish civil
Proximity operators and truncation
• Truncation ! finds words with alternate endings
e.g. child! returns child, children, childish etc.
Also use with author names to cover initials and full
names e.g. Spence, M! returns Spence, M and
Spence, Michael
• * To replace one letter in a word. This is useful for
variant spelling e.g. organi*ation returns organisation
and organization
• The notation for truncation symbols and wild cards
sometimes varies between database - check the Help
notes for the database
Getting the information to your students
• Web pages
• Weblearn or Departmental VLE
What to include…
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Links to OLIS, Oxlip, TD Net
Linked reading lists
Information re external access
Links to training materials
Advice re. good searching techniques
Who to ask for help – subject librarians
• English on Weblearn
http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/english/