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Ted Lawless

Motivation & Goals

• Deliver articles in the same 'easy' fashion that library has applied to books. 

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• A platform to build future services on.

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• Examples
• Before -  http://www.screenr.com/VmR8
• After -  http://www.screenr.com/B1a8

Technology

• Python and Django
• MySQL
• jQuery
• jQuery templates for client side rendering
• 360Link API
• Summon API
• Mendeley, JSTOR, Microsoft Academic Search APIs for extra data.  

Examples

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Print held article�http://www.mendeley.com/research/increase-deaths-ischaemic-heart-disease-after-blizzards/

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Article bypassing 360Link http://www.mendeley.com/research/epidemiological-survey-maintenance-workers-london-transport-executive-bus-garages-chiswick-works-1/

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Book - several editions held

http://www.worldcat.org/title/great-bridge/oclc/482678

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Book - alternate edition held

http://www.worldcat.org/title/risk-pool/oclc/17803510

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Features

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• OpenURL resolver front-end

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• single sign on via campus Shibboleth

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• auto-submission of ILL requests via ILLiad client code

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• print holdings integrated
• on campus print holdings can be requested by faculty

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• permanent links

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• abstracts, cited by, etc from external APIs.

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Code

• 360Link client
• https://github.com/lawlesst/py360link 
• ILLiad client
• https://github.com/lawlesst/illiad-api/  
• Shibboleth 
• https://github.com/Brown-University-Library/django-shibboleth-remoteuser
• Django app - basic logic for a 360Link front end
• https://github.com/lawlesst/dj360link  

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Interested?

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Email: tlawless@brown.edu

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We can install a basic version of this on your machine later this morning.

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We can talk about how it is working out at Brown.

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Interlibrary Loan

• Illiad
• Authenticate the user and submit request
• Illiad supports RemoteAuth, or single sign on
• Built a client that posts via HTTP and parses response
• Able to adjust the passed OpenURL  
• Using the RemoteAuth feature eliminates storing passwords or requiring additional login

Print serial holdings

Querying print serial holdings 

138th-229th 1960-2005

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v.1-v.5=no.1-no.75 1885-1889

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v.1-v.7 July 1870-Apr.1877

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v.33-v.168 1840-1873

Lacks: v.91-92

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9. ser.: t.1-t.20; 10. ser.: t.1-t.20; 11. ser.: t.1-t.20; 12. ser.:t.1-t.10; 13. ser.: t.1-t.10; 14. ser.:t.1-t.10 1914-1975

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Partnerships

Processed print holdings

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Shibboleth

• Campus single sign-on
• Preferred method for authenticating users on campus
• Apache module hides implementation details from developer
• Allows apps to pull attributes from campus information systems
• Users see one familiar log in screen and sessions persist