Bibliographic Access to Serials

Structuring Serials Bibliographic Relationships through ID Linking

Serials crisis Towards free access to scientific literature

Internet has profoundly changed the way scientific research is carried out. This in turn has altered our attitudes concerning access to scientific information. In this article we review a number of recent initiatives in various fields of science. We argue that the scientists in general, and mathematicians in particular, should actively support a transition towards free access to scientific lite...

Access to serials: integrating SFX with Evergreen open source ILS

Purpose – This paper addresses the integration of SFX link resolver with Evergreen open source integrated library system (ILS). It also describes a method to incorporate print serials into SFX. Design/methodology/approach – A print serials project has been proposed and implemented to integrate print and electronic serials at University of Windsor Leddy Library. It contains two sub-projects: (1)...

Access to Bibliographic Data Bases - The Provider Agents in MeDoc

The realization of a user-friendly access to local and distributed information resources is broadly acknowledged as a growing need with regard to the globalization of our informational world. In this context, three methods for developing interfaces to information providers are discussed which support the end-user in finding the information matching his requirements. The central part of this pap...

Personalized Information Access in a Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System

The Bibster system is an application of the use of semantics in Peer-to-Peer systems, which is aimed at researchers that share bibliographic metadata. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of recommender functionality in the Bibster system which allows personalized access to the bibliographic metadata available in the Peer-to-Peer network. These functions are based on a semant...