Minutes: SFX-Verde Group : MIT Libraries

Feb. 28, 2005 - Minutes

Present: Ellen Duranceau, Jennifer Edwards, Tracy Gabridge, Millicent Gaskell, Nicole Hennig, Graham Howard, Beth Siers (minutes), Rich Wenger


* Reports on previous action items:
- Rich reported that SFX v.3 still was not released. During the meeting he recieved email from ExL announcing the release.
Documentation is already up on the ExL site.
- Rich aslo reported that there was no progress with the IEEE SFX thing.


* SFX and Google Scholar
- Ideas generated to give to Mackensie before her meeting with the Google staff.
~ Can an option be added to limit results to things with the MIT Access link?
~ Currently the SFX server setup determines whether the MIT Access link takes you to the SFX menu or directly to the full text when there is one. A suggestion was made to let this be a user-defined option/


- Direct linking has been turned on in the test instance of SFX and Rich showed us some examples. There are problems if the DOI or PMID is not listed as one we have access to.
~ Can we turn this on *only* for Google Scholar?
~ Tracy and Millicent will draw up a list of pros and cons to bring to next meeting for turning this on in live SFX
***action item***


* Barton as an SFX source
- Rich will turn it on in test Aleph (v.14.2) before next meeting
***action item***
- Nicole will send out a link to the group before next meeting
***action item***
- We'll talk more about this next meeting


* Options for future service configurations
- Nicole and Ellen cam e prepared with a list which we dicussed and added to. We used the list to brainstorm question we'll need answered in order to evaluate our options. We all agreed a chart to record
options versus criteria would be useful for the evaluation.
~ Nicole will cull the list of questions raised into the beggining of a list of criteria ***action item***
~ Nicole will create a mock-up of an SFX menu in a Vera-les/Verde enable environment ***action item***
~ Rich will look at SFX's A-Z list capabilities ***action item***
~ Tracy will investigate what EJ access through Barton would look like ***action item***


Other ***Action Items***:


~ Rich will give us an update at the next meeting on SFX v.3 now that it's available
~ Rich will update the group at the next meeting on IEEE / SFX coding
~ Rich will email SMUG about other's experiences with (or why they chose not to) direct linking
~ At next meeting, group will continue investigation of Google Scholar direct links
~ AFTER next meeting update all-lib on SFX v.3


PARKING LOT
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NTIS and SFX menu wording


Attending SMUG (College Park MD June 9-10)
Rich is a definite and Beth is likely