Oxford Libraries Electronic Resources www bodley ox ac

Oxford Libraries Electronic Resources www. bodley. ox. ac. uk/elec-res. html Richard Gartner (rg@bodley) Nigel Walker (pnw@bodley)

The End Users • Principally those engaged in academic study • The Importance of these services to end users • Types of service and their Information Content • Interfaces and Access Methods • Support Issues • Developments

Oxford University Home Page/Electronic Resources • OLIS - Union Catalogue for the University Libraries • OLIG - Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway • Ox. LIP - Oxford Libraries Information Platform • Electronic Journals • Electronic Newspapers

OLIS • Union Catalogue for the University Libraries • Telnet (library. ox. ac. uk) • Geo. Web (Web access) • Geo. PAC (Windows client)

OLIG - Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway • Formerly BARD, a manually maintained catalogue of freely available quality Internet resources judged to be of scholarly value • Now a gateway Of gateways – Finding tools, i. e. search engines etc – HUMBUL - Humanities – SOSIG - Social Sciences – RSL maintained gateway for sciences

Ox. LIP - Oxford Libraries Information Platform • Access to circa 400 bibliographic reference and full-text databases only available to University members • Locally mounted databases – PC-based (e. g. PLD, Dead Sea Scrolls) – ERL (e. g. Medline, Sociofile) • Remote databases and services – Most accessible through WWW or Telnet

Ox. LIP - Oxford Libraries Information Platform • Single User Interface for Oxford • Access by Subject & Keyword rather than by Technology • “The Full Ox. LIP” www. bodley. ox. ac. uk/oxlip. html – Windows 95 & Windows NT – Microsoft Networking & Novell • “Ox. LIP on the Web” - c. 75% of sources www. bodley. ox. ac. uk/oxlip/index. html

Electronic Resources Major Constraints • Ox. LIP - many databases are PC-based applications which place constraints on the client workstation, eg drive mappings F: to L: , downloading files to the local hard disc and writing to system areas • Ox. LIP for NT requires MSIE 3 • Web-based services - at least Netscape 3 or MSIE 4, Java. Script, Acrobat • Authentication - multiple usernames

Electronic Resources Future Developments • General move to more open systems, especially Web-based access • NTrigue - access from X-Terminals and Winframe clients • Access from bibliographic software (End. Note 3 - Z 39. 50 access to ERL & OLIS) • Authentication - Athens III • Continuous development of interfaces - concept of the Hybrid Library