[Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

Wed Apr 10 12:19:23 PDT 2019

Elsevier has an API specifically for determining authorization to view content. https://dev.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthenticationAPI.wadl

I suspect some other big vendors have something similar. These tools, combined with some scripting, may help you automate access checking.

Athena

Athena Hoeppner
Discovery Services Librarian
University of Central Florida, Orlando
407-823-5049 | athena at ucf.edu

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Melissa Belvadi
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

That's a great lead, and I hadn't seen that before thanks. It is however, from 2014, and I wonder how many of those platforms have changed so that those pattern-strings in Table 1 would no longer work to identify access.

What we need is some kind of crowd-sourced page/database that everyone who does this kind of work could help keep updated as we figure out for our own use what to use.
I have no idea what might be the best way to try to start something like that - maybe a mini-wiki site?
Github? As a very occasional coder, I find Github incredibly unfriendly and intimidating, but maybe it's the right tool for this.

The task itself seems impossibly huge, but that's exactly when sharing the work across many in the profession would help make it feasible, and maybe we could even get the vendors to maintain their own entries in such a list.

I'm just really sick of discovering "missing" content by way of being embarrassed by a patron, often a very unhappy one, who finds the problem for us at their point of need.
As the old saying goes, this is no way to run a railroad! Or in our case, library.

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:22 PM Harper, Cynthia <charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>> wrote:
You probably know about this article from UNC’s Kristina Spurgin https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9684<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournal.code4lib.org%2Farticles%2F9684&data=02%7C01%7Cathena%40ucf.edu%7C08e8dee7694448d88e4208d6bde4f22f%7Cbb932f15ef3842ba91fcf3c59d5dd1f1%7C0%7C0%7C636905188353983140&sdata=floCXl2Uis1nbQ1eJeKcArD0S8CPfgMSkE7xgZHTymk%3D&reserved=0>.  I realize it worked with ebooks, but possibly she has some article sites there too?

Cindy

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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

I am just this week wrapping up a CS student project (for which I'm the "client") that involves screenscraping publisher websites to determine if we in fact have access to the journal volumes that our knowledgebase says we have. I don't know if you intended your technical review of access to include that level of what I call "reality checking".

But if anyone else out there reading this has done that kind of screenscraping coding, I'd be interesting in sharing the brittle details publisher by publisher of what you look at on the publisher website to determine access. For instance, we've found that some publishers don't distinguish "you have access because we've made it free to everyone" (in a non-OA sense, like Nature, which could be revoked at any time) versus "you have access because you paid for it" in any way that we can tell via screenscraping.

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:12 AM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu<mailto:adodd1 at loyola.edu>> wrote:
We’re doing mainly a technical review of access, with a little bit of research into the items as well, not in a cost/ usage data sense but in a “do we even know what this database is and why we have it” sense.

Alexander Dodd
Discovery & Electronic Resources Librarian

Loyola Notre Dame Library

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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Knowledgebase Review- Tips, Tricks, Research?

By "review of ... holdings" do you mean a technical review of access, e.g. making sure you have access to everything listed in your holdings? Or do you mean review in the acquisitions/collection development sense, e.g. looking at usage data and cost per use and such?

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:13 PM Alexander Dodd <adodd1 at loyola.edu<mailto:adodd1 at loyola.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

I’m about to start a pretty in-depth review of our library’s e-resources knowledgebase holdings, and I’m curious if anyone has any research/ case studies they’ve seen that have looked helpful in going through such a deep project, or any personal tips that they wish they had known before diving into a similar project? I’m a little new to the e-resources field so I’m always looking for great research to jump off of.

Thanks,

Alexander Dodd
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