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Minutes - 29 June 2005Present: Hennig (chair), Duke, Gaskell, Quirion, Skuce (minutes)
Guests: Jennifer Edwards, Tracy Gabridge, Howard Silver, Rich Wenger1. Services related to EndNote and RefWorks in SFX menu
In response to Howard's request that we make these bibliographic software products a target, the group decided we should turn on EndNote and RefWorks. We then worked on devising effective language for the SFX menu. These services will appear under the heading "Citation export" and will be labelled "Export to RefWorks" and "Export to EndNote," each with a link reading "More info." That link will connect to the cheatsheet for each resource that we already have in Help Yourself. Jennifer will update the wording and add the "more info" notes; Darcy and Howard will test EndNote and RefWorks from a few databases; and Nicole and Rich will meet to change the look of the menu.
2. NTIS and SFX problem
The SFX response to searches for NTIS publications can be misleading. A proposed solution was to use a different SFX menu, or turn off the SFX button, when NTIS is the source. Tracy and Rich both looked into this, and it cannot be done: it simply isn't technically possible for us to do anything different for NTIS. Unfortunately the Ask Us link in the SFX menu is all we can offer at this time.
3. Creating permanent links to full text articles in our e-resources
We need to update the following pages that explain how to make links from faculty course pages to articles from our licensed resources, now that we have the SFX Citation Linker as a possible method for creating these links:
WAG examined the status of these pages, discussed the issues in general, and looked at how to move forward. WAG (+SFX subgroup) will work on the short-term issues regarding the Citation Linker; the SFX-Verde group will work on long-term issues, such as when and how to roll out the Citation Linker. Rich will ask the SFX list how to make a phrase like "copy this link" display in any SFX menu. He'll turn it on in test, and then we'll test it. Tracy volunteered to draft a page that will promote using the DOI when available, and she will also incorporate updated info from the current publisher-specific solutions page. We will set up the openURL generator in test to show the URL. Darcy will work with Tracy on testing, and this will be back on our agenda in the near future.4. SFX and Google Scholar
Millicent and others reported on our test of Google Scholar. Darcy: inconsistent links popped up. Christine: got dumped into Barton nearly every time, even though full text was available. General feeling: it worked better before they scraped our holdings. Millicent and Christine will send Rich 3 or 4 citations that demonstrate specific problems. We will continue this topic at our next meeting, once we have the results of Rich's query.
5. News blog
Nicole demonstrated the blog to an enthusiastic WAG. The goal is to go live on July 6, though we're still waiting for the URL to work (IS has been contacted). The training went well, and roughly a dozen editors from across the system are ready to go. Darcy and Nicole will clear out the "test stories," and each editor will add at least 1 live story to the blog. On our web site, the news section under "about us" will be updated with a link to the blog.
RSS feeds: The blog will auto-generate our RSS feeds, both for general Libraries news, and for specific topic areas. We will publicize our feeds in several places around MIT and beyond. This will allow our content to be inserted in other web sites and news-readers.
Nicole (on a team with Pam, Sarah, and Heather) is creating templates that will become the desktops on public computers in each library, and these templates will include live RSS feeds from our news blog. Each unit can customize the number of headlines on their desktop. This will all be previewed at the next PSMG meeting. We'll follow up a week or so after going live, and do any tweaking needed.
Next meeting:Wednesday, July 6, 2-3:30pm, CubeSpace
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