How does SIPX serve your library’s needs? We wanted to better integrate our e-reserves service with other campus technologies. In addition, SIPX has copyright licensing integration with our library’s holdings, allowing us to search our holdings at the SIPX site. After reading lists are created, we inject the SIPX reading list links back into the LMS course sites.
Because SIPX is integrated with Sakai, our learning management system (LMS), it allows us to pass basic course information from Sakai to SIPX, where we can easily add reading materials. How do you use SIPX? Our libraries use SIPX as our e-reserves system. SIPX integrates with all major teaching and course materials platforms, delivers to all mobile devices, and provides real-time analytics. Instructors pay only for the readings they want to assign instead of purchasing entire texts. SIPX recognizes and applies library holdings and open content to selections, eliminating redundancies that could lead to increased expenditures. Users: Grace (Gan) Ye, digital systems librarian, and Sally Bryant, head of access services, Pepperdine University Libraries in Malibu, Californiaĭetails: SIPX collects open access and open education resource materials, publisher content, and library holdings into an intuitive web interface where faculty and support staff can set up and share course readings with students. Case Study: SIPX for Schools Grace (Gan) Ye and Sally Bryant The first-to-market 1science Library OA Solution is available internationally. It compiles lists of the journals that are most frequently cited, as well as the ones that a university’s authors are most frequently published in. These lists can help users make informed decisions concerning subscriptions. The oaFigr subscription service analyzes the user’s university journal subscriptions to assess what is currently available in open access. No installation or maintenance is required. It finds all open access papers published directly by the user’s institution, eliminating effort spent finding already available articles. It is a virtual storage program for faculty peer-reviewed journals. The second product, oaFoldr, goes a step further.
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