Transcript JIBS Enhancement Groups Sue Cumberpatch JIBS Chair Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries.

JIBS Enhancement Groups
Sue Cumberpatch
JIBS Chair
Serving the interests of e-resource users in Research, Higher and Further Education Libraries
JIBS - history
• Started as an enhancement group – BIDS
User Group – in 1991
– Single provider
• This is now one of the JIBS-supported
enhancement groups – the Web of Science
Enhancement Committee
• Expanded to include all nationally-licenced
databases and providers --- JIBS
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JIBS - now
• Represents users of resources available via
various national agreements – JISC, CHEST,
independent providers
• Membership base is users and librarians in HE,
FE and research councils
• The types of resource JIBS represents have also
extended beyond bibliographic material to all
electronic content of interest to our user
community
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The Enhancement Groups
• Some are called User Group
• Some established by providers, who invite JIBS
to take part. Others initiated by JIBS
• Meet usually two or three times a year, also
have active mailing lists. JIBS members request
input via various lists e.g. lis-jibs-users, lis-link
• JIBS representatives report to JIBS committee
meetings
• Summary reports on JIBS website
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What the groups do
• Have confidential access to pre-release versions
of software and other updates - to comment on
and suggest changes, which are taken on board
• JIBS reps raise issues fed to them by users
• Providers use JIBS reps as avenue to users, for
suggestions and publicity
• Don’t discuss pricing
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Some examples of issues addressed
• WoSEC
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Persuaded ThomsonReuters to tweak recent amendments
to WoK, to make it clearer to users which database they
are using, and to be able to select a database earlier in the
session rather than starting off in All Databases
Keep reminding ThomsonReuters to include export to
RefWorks format in WoS/WoK – ongoing!
• OvidSP Group
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Input to content and coverage of databases e.g. Evidencebased medicine reviews
Protecting the needs of "power searchers" while end-user
basic search is developing; incremental enhancements
following original OvidSP release
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Current Groups
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WoSEC – may become ThomsonReuters Group
BSOL – British Standards
EBSCO
IBSS
Intute – new chair needed. Volunteers?
OvidSP
MDL – Elsevier chemical databases
Scopus
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Potential new groups
• Other providers (may already have a group)
– Proquest
– CSA
• E-book providers?
• Do not cover ejournals (leave that to UKSG)
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Other JIBS liaison activity
• Meets at least once a year with reps from JISC
Collections, Eduserv CHEST, EDINA and MIMAS
• JIBS reps sit on various JISC working groups and other
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Journals W G
E-books W G
Visual and Sound Materials Demo Project (ex Images W G)
JISC Geospatial WG
Library Advisory W G
(Online Film & Sound WG - awaiting next stage of
development)
– JISC E-books Observatory Project
– On Management Boards of MIMAS and EDINA
– RESCOLINC and SCONUL representation
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Comments/suggestions?
• Should we be aiming towards standardisation in
interfaces?
• Is Googlisation inevitable? Lowest-common
denominator?
• Separation of data and software – is this
possible or desirable?
• Difference between undergrad and PhD level
users – how to address this?
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Let us know
• Any suggestions for new groups or for
interface standards, please email
[email protected]
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