Science Library Pad

several CISTI jobs available

In general you can always find publically-posted NRC jobs (including CISTI) at

NRC Careers

Note: that the posting times are usually quite brief, that Canadian citizens have an advantage, and that many positions have bilingual imperative requirements.

Current positions:

• Serials Specialist - 02/03/2006 (8 days)
• Product Specialist, Journals Onsite (EJOS) - 02/15/2006 (20 days)
• Collection Librarian - Posted until filled
• Finance Business Systems and Project Officer - 02/08/2006 (13 days)
• UPDATE 2006-01-27: Information Specialist - 02/17/2006 (21 days) - in Montréal

CISTI goes into production with EJOS full-text repository

Endeavor: CISTI Begins World's First Full-Scale Use of Encompass for Journals OnSite
CISTI: CISTI Begins World's First Full-Scale Use of Encompass for Journals OnSite, L'ICIST est le tout premier organisme au monde à se prévaloir à grande échelle du système ENCompass for Journals Onsite

Currently for National Research Council of Canada only.  It has a search box and the results are fast, so I like that.  (It's a searchable full-text repository that supports content from multiple publishers, in case you're wondering.)  The architecture is also nice, Oracle + FAST Search, runs on Linux (Red Hat on AMD Opteron).  I think we have a couple terabytes running, and we have planned to scale out to several more TB.  Current content...

The initial EJOS implementation for CISTI includes content from six publishers: Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer, NRC Research Press, Karger, and Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.

CISTI experimental sidebar 0.2

Ok, so you can get the latest CISTI sidebar extension from Stephen (scroll down on his page and you will see the link to click).

Following on my previous posting: we have code that will change what's displayed on the web pages you are visiting.  There are a number of ways I can think of that you can modify page content:
- highlighting terms of interest
- making new links
- rewriting links

We do all of those.  There are also different ways to think about linking into your library.  You might have a resolver, in which case you can suck up data from the page and build OpenURLs.  Lacking that however, you can always try to search into your library.  For example, identify ISBNs and build links that do an ISBN search on your catalog.  Or in the case of Google Scholar, since it provides fairly limited metadata, I have built an example based on a lot of great earlier work, that takes the title, author, and journal and uses it to build a search into EJOS.  If you have a similar system that can take that same set of metadata and take you somewhere interesting (e.g. fulltext) you could do the same thing.  The EJOS search is still very beta, it's a hack.

alt-o says "add OpenURL to Google Scholar", that's actually the EJOS search thing - it's very specific for CISTI
alt-r will highlight the search terms on the page (on my screen the highlighting is pink) as well Research Press content in yellow (if it can - it needs a direct RP link)
alt-p rewrites links to go through the CISTI proxy

An example using the page modification features would be go to "Other Search", do a Google Scholar search on balsam fir.  Then press alt-r and you will see both highlighted search terms as well as highlighted Research Press articles.  You can then press alt-o and it will add links to search into CISTI's EJOS repository (which is only available inside NRC).  You can then, last but not least, press alt-p and when you check the links on the page, you will see they now ALL go through the CISTI proxy (it currently rewrites every single link on the page).

These don't appear to work on Firefox Mac but are fine in Firefox Windows.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions or concerns.
For example, it's maybe a bit wider than it should be.  Anyway, you can drag the sidebar width bar according to your wishes.

alt-c will bring up the sidebar on Windows and the Mac, depending on where the input focus is (for example if you're already in the address bar on the Mac, alt-c will give you a ç rather than the sidebar)

You can also select the sidebar from View->Sidebar->CISTI Search.

Stephen made most of the changes, I'm mainly in marketing.

Anyway, you will also see there's now a pseudo-tabbed interface (just done with graphic links).
I added IngentaConnect to the list of restricted e-Library resources and the Entrez search to Other Search.  Please let us know if there are other licensed resources or search engines you would like to see linked.

Previously:
2005-03-04 updated CISTI sidebar for Firefox
2005-02-12 experimental CISTI sidebar for Firefox

UPDATE 2005-Dec-22: Visit CISTI Lab for the latest sidebar.

EJOS in general release

Endeavor Information Systems is pleased to announce the first general release of ENCompass for Journals OnSite (EJOS), a sophisticated new system for locally storing and providing a single point of access to electronic journal content from any publisher. Using EJOS, libraries can locally load the full text journal content they license, and enable their end users to search, browse, and view journal articles through one standard user interface.

Beta testing of EJOS was completed earlier this year with the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), a scientific research organization [Note: Actually a national science library would be more accurate]. The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) recently installed EJOS at the University of Toronto (UT), where EJOS will support access to electronic journal content for OCUL's twenty member libraries as part of the cooperative Ontario Scholars Portal Project. Other libraries and organizations around the world – in the United States, Italy, Germany, Turkey, China, and elsewhere – are also turning to EJOS for local electronic journal storage and access.

from Library Technology Guides

Official news release site is Endeavor: ENCompass for Journals OnSite Now In First General Release.
 

European EJOS user conference, June 2004

The information below is from HeBis Konsortium Events page.

"European User Conference EJOS" on June 4, 2004 in Amsterdam

The licensed Elsevier journals can be used via a local host  in Frankfurt. The necessary software the ScienceServer, is licensed from Elsevier, too. This form of usage is called SDOS (Science Direct OnSite), in contrast to SDOL (Sience Direct OnLine), the direct access to the Elsevier-Server. The ScienceServer will not be supported any longer from the next year on. The software will be replaced by EJOS (ENCompass for Journals onSite) of Endeavor. The workshop in Amsterdam had the goal to inform the European users of the ScienceServer about EJOS and the whole process of the software change. You can find the Presentations of the event under:

ScienceServer/EJOS European User Group Meeting - HeBIS-Konsortium. About us: [pdf]
ScienceServer/EJOS European User Group Meeting - Customer Overview of the British Library [pdf]
The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) [pdf]
Cilea Digital Library SDOS service [pdf]
Science Server Implementation for an Italian University Consortium (CIBER) Digital Library [pdf]
ENCompass for Journals OnSite [pdf]
ENCompass for Journals OnSite - Migration Program [pdf]
ScienceDirect OnSite Developments [pdf]
EJOS SupportWeb [pdf]
Total List of Loaders [pdf]

CISTI beta tests EJOS

Hey look at me, I'm in marketing.  I'll be talking about go-forward leveraging of value chains any moment now.  Anyway...

CISTI Beta Tests First Release of Encompass for Journals OnSite

Jan. 13, 2005:  Endeavor Information Systems reported today a successful initial beta test of the first release of its ENCompass for Journals OnSite (EJOS). The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) tested the advanced EJOS system, which is designed to manage, search and link locally hosted journal collections. An unmatched resource management tool, EJOS is the next generation system replacing the ScienceServer® platform currently in place at hundreds of libraries worldwide.

...

The first library to experience the power of EJOS, CISTI locally loaded over 2.3-million articles during the three-month beta testing process. CISTI’s implementation of EJOS delivers high-powered search and retrieval of full-text journal content to 22 institutes and 5,000 employees of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).