Principles for the Development of UC-eLinks

August 21, 2001

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to:

• Guide the decisions that must be made during the process.
• Establish values that will raise the quality of services.
• Inform outreach and instructional activities.

Strategies

Initial services that will be offered through the CDL's SFX server are:

• Links to ejournals
• Links to holdings
• Links to Request

The Tools and Service Working Group will guide planning for the expansion of the services offered through the CDL's SFX server. Policies need to be established for services such as integrating campus-based SFX servers with the CDL SFX server and integrating holdings from campus OPACs into the CDL SFX server.

Principles

1. The CDL/SFX icon will only appear when the menu contains an added value or service.
2. There will be single link for ejournals at the most specific level possible (article, issue, volume, title).
3. The CDL/SFX icon will appear in a consistent place within each of a vendor's bibliographic or citation records.
4. The CDL/SFX icon will be the same within all CDL vendors and the Melvyl Catalog.
5. When direct passthrough to the electronic version or text is the only option, SFX will not generate a menu. This will generally apply only in the Melvyl Catalog.
6. Categories of services will appear in the same order within the SFX menu: electronic content first, holdings second, Request third. As other services are added, an order will be decided upon and used consistently.
7. It should always be possible to navigate back to the source retrieval screen from the SFX menu screen (currently, this is best satisfied by having SFX menu always open as a new window).
8. The SFX interface will conform to the CDL commitment to provide resource access to members of the UC community with disabilities. Using the practices described in the W3C web content accessibility guidelines, the federal section 508 guidelines, etc.

Developed by:

Mary Heath
Ann Jensen
Donna Kaiser
David Loy
Michael Thwaites
Margery Tibbets
Steve Toub
Sherry Willhite