I think this is pretty nifty.
I was in a focus group recently with Juliet Eve from Brighton Uni, looking
at library practitioners' use of academic LIS research (funded by AHRC).
Coincidentally we were discussing how access to research was the a
significant problem for busy practitioners and that electronic access was my
preferred norm. I had suggested a possible cross searching/ signposting
service that could be set up to give easy remote access to the information
held in multiple e-resources. This model works in exactly the way I was
trying to suggest, so I passed it on as an example
Andrew Lewis
e-Services Officer
Library and Information Services
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
01628 796 592
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-----Original Message-----
From: gary price [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 April 2006 19:28
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [Maybe spam] Re: Pilot subject-based cross-repository search
tool now available.
Kudos Roddy!
Just to let you know that most of this news is featured on ResourceShelf
today. Please keep me in the loop as to new features and services. Also,
feel
free to share my name and ResourceShelf with others who work on PerX, I
would
be happy to hear from them.
cheers,
gary
Quoting "MacLeod, Roderick A" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool now available.
>
>
>
> A Pilot service http://www.engineering.ac.uk
> <http://www.engineering.ac.uk/> providing subject resource discovery
> across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering
> learning and research communities has been released by the PerX Project.
> Although the target repositories included in the Pilot are relevant to
> engineering, the cross-searching methods and interface used, plus the
range
> of repository types included, should be of interest to many as a
> demonstrator of one method of resource discovery across multiple digital
> repositories.
> e
>
>
> Twenty-eight repositories are currently cross-searched by the Pilot.
These
> include: the Directory of Open Access Journals (engineering and technology
> sections), DSpace at MIT, the Energy Citations Database, the GROW Digital
> Library, NASA Technical Reports, Jorum, ePrints UK, Networked Digital
> Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), National Engineering
Education
> Delivery System (NEEDS), Australian Research Repositories Online to the
> World (ARROW), CISTI - Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical
> Information, Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical
> Reports, and several more established repositories of interest to the
> engineering community. More repositories will be added to the Pilot as
> they are identified and configured.
>
>
>
> The Pilot's Basic Search interface
> http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=basic
> <http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=basic> and Advanced
Search
> interface http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=advanced
> <http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=advanced> enable
> cross-searching of the repositories, and allow filtering by resource type:
> articles, theses and dissertations, technical reports, books, learning and
> teaching resources, key websites, industry news and new job announcements.
> Overall, more than 1.5 million resources are cross-searched by the Pilot.
>
>
>
> Access to the full text of items found is available from many of the
> repositories. In a few cases, the full items consist of details of books,
> articles, learning objects or websites, and in some others the full text
> may be available to subscribing institutions or by pay-per-view.
>
> An important purpose of the PerX pilot is to help scope a possible future
> cross-search service. With this in mind, feedback on the Pilot would be
> much appreciated. A 60 second survey is available at:
> http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=quest
> <http://www.engineering.ac.uk/index.html?action=quest> and those
> providing feedback will be entered into a draw to win £100 of Amazon
> vouchers.
>
> Other documents available from PerX include:
>
>
>
> Listing of Engineering repository sources
> http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm
> <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm> This document
> identifies the most significant repository sources of relevance to the UK
> Higher Education (HE) Engineering community.
>
>
>
> Engineering Digital Repositories Landscape Analysis, and Implications for
> PerX http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/analysis.htm
> <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/analysis.htm>
>
> This document analyses the digital repository landscape identified in the
> Listing, and discusses various issues concerning repository provision in
> engineering.
>
>
>
> 'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and
> Visibility of Online Content
> http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm
> <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm> .
>
> This document gives a non-technical introduction to the means by which
> content providers can share, or embed, their descriptive data (metadata)
> with other websites, in standard and reusable ways.
>
> PerX (Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch) is part of the JISC Digital
> Repositories Programme (DRP)
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories
> <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories> ,
and
> is based at the Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot Watt
> University, Edinburgh. Project partners are Cranfield University; the
> Institution of Civil Engineers/Thomas Telford Ltd; Geotechnical, Rock and
> Water Resources Library; and the Regional Support Centre East Midlands.
>
> For further details, please go to PerX http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/
> <http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/>
>
>
> Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP
>
> Senior Subject Librarian
>
> Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
>
> Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164
>
>
>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html
>
>
>
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