The publications database has been a useful tool for gathering content as we have
been able to target specific members of staff and the Steering Committee has worked
hard to develop links between the repository and this service. Throughout the first
year, discussions were held with staff in Corporate Information Services (CIS), who
manage the publications database, about the possibilities of sharing metadata between
the two systems and linking via OpenURLs to material within the IR. This is a
powerful selling-point for departments which we are keen to exploit, however some
work is still needed to convince the relevant people that this is a worthwhile
investment of time. In the interim period, we have managed to link the two systems
via our ‘SFX’ service (using the MetaLib software from Ex Libris which is used to
provide access to a range of other e-resources within the Library) which means that
users can find the full text of items in the publications database from wherever they
appear in the IR.