Serials Solutions list management tool

Serials Solutions provides institutional access to to e-journals and e-books. Participating members also have access to the raw data that populates tools such as the Serials Solutions Journal Portal. Serials Solutions uses the LCC headers from the call numbers courtesy of Columbia University - and this gives our patrons a general taxonomy for viewing our content. In our world, however, it is often useful to apply discipline specific vocabularies to content. This set of feature modules helps facilitate that while maintaining consistent linkage.

Sample use case: Our nursing liaison wants to apply a new taxonomy to our content. Her patrons may not be familiar with LCC terms or there may be clearer wording specific to their field. By importing the SS data we are able to act on it using custom taxonomies. New lists of resources are made by our librarian staff. Additionally the links are maintained up to date - a consistent challenge in a field where resource providers are often buying and selling to the various resources thus changing the URL.

We looked at tools such as LibGuides, however they do not allow us to continually ingest information from SS - thus it was possible for links to become out dated unless a librarian manually updated the LibGuides data.

This is a set of features that helps our staff manage custom curated lists of journals, books, and databases. For basic search they offer several products with article level detail. Serials Solutions also provides subject headings based on the call number for many of their resources.

The purpose of this module is to create an interface for hand categorizing the digital assets at our library.

Technically speaking here are the goals of our Serials Solutions Link Manager

1) Ingest and maintain the data through feeds
2) Create a dashboard view for managing individual items using Display Suite, Panels, and Field Groups
3) Use taxonomies, flags, and flag lists to create lists of the data
4) Provide displays for patrons to find information using views

If you have any questions please send them along to adp6j@virginia.edu - thanks!