Electronic library Switzerland
| Electronic library Switzerland | |
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 Logo of the Swiss Electronic Library
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| founding | 2008 |
| Library type | Virtual library |
| place | Switzerland |
| Website | e-lib.ch |
E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library started in 2008 with the aim of creating a national portal that simplifies research and access. At the same time, cooperation between libraries and academic institutions in all regions has been strengthened. Via the web portal e-lib.ch (not updated since January 2015) it offers central access to the offers and services of twenty sub-projects as well as to the extensive holdings of the Swiss university libraries and a whole range of other institutions. The sub-projects were carried out between 2008 and 2012.
Project goals
The strategic goal is to establish e-lib.ch as the leading and central national portal in the sense of a “single point of access” for scientific information research and provision in Switzerland and to establish it in the long term. E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library differs from other offers by integrating value-added services, subject-specific offers, subject-specific quality control, professional cataloging and direct usage and ordering options.
The project management and coordination office for the overall e-lib.ch project is based at the ETH Library in Zurich . The Conference of University Libraries in Switzerland (KUB / CBU) accompanies the overall project.
financing
The innovation and cooperation project e-lib.ch is financed for the cantonal universities by the Swiss University Conference (SUK). The ETH Board is responsible for the participation of the institutions in the ETH Domain. The universities of applied sciences participate with the support of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SFBI, formerly BBT - Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology).
Current projects
The teams responsible for the ongoing sub-projects of e-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library are constantly expanding the existing offerings and developing new ones.
The ACCEPT project (Analyze du Comportement des Client - Evaluation des Prestations de Téléchargement) accompanies and evaluates individual projects that arise within the framework of e-lib.ch. It analyzes the usability of the website and the usefulness of the digital content.
On the platform e-rara.ch, Swiss libraries make digitized books from their holdings available online worldwide, giving science and the public new access to rare and valuable prints from the 15th to 19th centuries. E-rara.ch is a national cooperation project. Five Swiss libraries have been actively involved in setting up the platform and are digitizing their books with the latest technologies on site. Other libraries are making their holdings available for digitization. In principle, all Swiss libraries can participate in e-rara.ch.
The ElibEval project accompanies and evaluates the online offers created by e-lib.ch during their development process. The aim of the investigations is a continuous development and quality improvement of the offers. In addition to the evaluations, analytical instruments and concepts are developed. You support providers of scientific information resources in carrying out their own usability evaluations. The analyzes are carried out in close cooperation with the ACCEPT project , which primarily focuses on aspects of usefulness.
The specialist portal Infonet Economy offers direct access to digital economic publications throughout Switzerland. It also provides access to all relevant and reliable sources of business information by topic and also has a directory of Swiss actors in the business sector who produce (business) business studies and information. The Infonet Economy project creates a national network of economics libraries, documentation centers, institutions and specialized economic sectors.
Kartenportal.CH is the central entry point for internet research for printed and digital maps of map collections, archives and geodata providers in Switzerland. It improves access to map material and promotes the networking of map collections in Switzerland. For the portal, an innovative tool for map research in library catalogs was developed with the geosearch, in which maps can be found by selecting a map section in an interactive overview map.
The retro.seals.ch platform provides access to retro-digitized scientific journals from Switzerland and covers a wide variety of scientific subjects, e.g. B. Architecture, history or mathematics. The oldest holdings come from the first half of the 19th century, the current issues are constantly being updated. In addition, retro.seals.ch is being continuously expanded in cooperation with publishers and other partners. The journal research offers various options, including a. Full screen display including zoom function, full text search across all content, or a refinement of the search using various filters.
RODIN (ROue D'Information; information wheel) is a personalisable information portal. The user can thus search in different information resources simultaneously. The results are displayed with the help of a graphic window system (widgets). The user decides which sources to add or remove and how to arrange them. In a further step he can refine the search with the help of bibliographic ontologies.
Swissbib is a publicly accessible general catalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss National Library. It enables an efficient search in up-to-date data of the participating library networks in Switzerland, the Swiss National Library and other data sources relevant for research and teaching. Swissbib uses the latest search engine technology and integrates Web 2.0 components for convenient filtering, faceting, personalization and highlighting of search results in full texts.
The aim of the web portal e-lib.ch is to set up a central entry point for the Swiss-wide provision of scientific information resources and services. Here, heterogeneous information resources were integrated with special consideration of the information and services from sub-projects of e-lib.ch: Electronic Library Switzerland, personalization functions for setting up individual services were implemented, or a graphical user interface including the search engine application was built into the navigation concept.
Completed Projects
A number of e-lib.ch sub-projects have been completed. The results are offered by the responsible institutions, are part of other active applications or form the basis for expanding further digital offers and services.
Best practices in digitization projects shows how digitization projects are started, implemented and successfully completed. The explanations are designed as an aid and suggestion for the construction of electronic inventories. The website is primarily aimed at institutions that want to digitize documents themselves.
The DOI desk at ETH Zurich operated by the ETH Library registers DOIs for the entire Swiss university sector .
E-codices is originally a project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Freiburg . Since the start of the project at the beginning of 2005, the offer has been continuously expanded in cooperation with the St. Gallen Abbey Library . This enabled a large number of manuscripts to be reproduced integrally and made available free of charge on the e-codices.ch website together with academic manuscript descriptions. Thanks to the support of e-lib.ch, e-codices was able to establish itself as a single point of access for manuscript research in Switzerland and establish itself as an internationally recognized center of excellence.
- E-depot
The E-Depot project is a range of services that - tailored to the needs of individual libraries and the consortium of Swiss university libraries - is intended to enable the local storage of licensed content.
Infoclio.ch is the specialist portal for the history sciences in Switzerland and aims to be a digital infrastructure for the Swiss history sciences that coordinates the relevant institutions and actors, increases the visibility of Swiss history in the digital context and gives researchers access to digital , international initiatives.
- Information literacy
The information competence portal would like to support the specialists of the Swiss university libraries in their work in promoting information competence and to create good networking. It offers a repository with various teaching materials, theoretical foundations on information literacy and contact with the specialist community.
- Long-term archiving
The aim of the project is to develop a concept with one or more models and model variants for central, trustworthy long-term archiving of digital primary and secondary data for Swiss universities, research centers and university libraries.
- Marketing e-lib.ch
The aim of Marketing e-lib.ch is the formulation and implementation of a marketing concept for the overall project e-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library. In addition to the website, accompanying measures to build up the “e-lib.ch” brand were initiated.
- Metadata server
The establishment of a metadata server made it possible to integrate documents and metadata from Swiss university libraries and other institutions into the search options of e-lib.ch. The aim of this project was to make the previously existing separate metadata server superfluous as soon as the seamless integration of the scattered content of institutional document servers into the research options of e-lib.ch allowed uncomplicated access.
Multivio is an open source viewer for digital content on the Internet. The application can be integrated into different environments and serves as a display surface. The application is modular and expandable and can thus be adapted to the needs of all sources.
- Research skills
The aim of the project is to support the customers of e-lib.ch: Electronic Library Switzerland in using scientific search engines and thus to develop their research skills. For this purpose, the SPRINT portal (Swiss portal for Internet searches) operated by the Swiss Institute for Information Science (SII) formed the content framework and the technological basis. In addition to an online search guide for scientific search engines, the portal also offers an e-learning component and a market overview with the most important providers of scientific search engines.