Tuesday, January 19, 2010
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance : Jan 23
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours during the period from 8:00AM to 8:00PM EST Saturday, 23 January 2010. Please plan ahead.
Monday, January 11, 2010
bX Scholarly Recommender Service
bX Scholarly Recommender Service
The UConn Health Center Library has expanded its SFX link resolver service to include bX: A Scholarly Recommender Service. You can compare this service to PubMed’s Related articles service, or more popularly, to AMAZON – “other users also bought these”. While not a search service, bX is designed to provide SFX users automated browsing of scholarly articles based on usage data. Recommendations are made based on a structural analysis of SFX link resolver usage from libraries worldwide. Currently, 180 libraries worldwide have helped to develop and are using bX, see the partial list below.
Boston College
British Library
California State University (17 Campuses)
Princeton
University of Chicago
University of Texas at Austin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
When you click on an SFX link button while searching in Scopus, Web of Science, or Ovid’s Medline, you may be presented with a menu titled : Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following : . Not all article citations that you click on in SFX, will display the bX menu. SFX usage is harvested (behind the scenes) using OAI-PMH protocol and returned to users as recommendations within the menu.
You don’t have to lose these recommendations as bX can be prompted to download the citations popping up in the bX menu recommendations to your choice of bibliographic manager services such as RefWorks, Procite, Endnote, and RefManager.
Please let us know what you think of this service add on to our SFX link resolver.
Arta Dobbs
Collection Management Librarian
dobbs@nso.uchc.edu
The UConn Health Center Library has expanded its SFX link resolver service to include bX: A Scholarly Recommender Service. You can compare this service to PubMed’s Related articles service, or more popularly, to AMAZON – “other users also bought these”. While not a search service, bX is designed to provide SFX users automated browsing of scholarly articles based on usage data. Recommendations are made based on a structural analysis of SFX link resolver usage from libraries worldwide. Currently, 180 libraries worldwide have helped to develop and are using bX, see the partial list below.
Boston College
British Library
California State University (17 Campuses)
Princeton
University of Chicago
University of Texas at Austin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
When you click on an SFX link button while searching in Scopus, Web of Science, or Ovid’s Medline, you may be presented with a menu titled : Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following : . Not all article citations that you click on in SFX, will display the bX menu. SFX usage is harvested (behind the scenes) using OAI-PMH protocol and returned to users as recommendations within the menu.
You don’t have to lose these recommendations as bX can be prompted to download the citations popping up in the bX menu recommendations to your choice of bibliographic manager services such as RefWorks, Procite, Endnote, and RefManager.
Please let us know what you think of this service add on to our SFX link resolver.
Arta Dobbs
Collection Management Librarian
dobbs@nso.uchc.edu
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