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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Talis Aspire

Talis Aspire is a UK-wide resource management tool that improves access to eresources.
Talis Aspire (compared to the Talis List) focuses more on the student experience - provides a much better student interface, with browse and search functions. The student view supports the inclusion of information, such as a brief introductions to book, publisher details, notes added by the academic, links to the library catalogue and provides students with info on the items availability while it also offers information on where to buy the book.
Students logging in via Schib can make their own notes on the resources and can also offer feedback re: the book to the academic. Also, the reading list can be exported to excel(csv).

In contrast to TL < Aspire aims to encourage academics to create their online lists giving them complete control, by offering them a simple, navigable (collect -edit -add) resources interface with drag and drop functions of building and managing a reading list.
The resources can be categorised and managed easily and the table of contents are navigable by students to any portion of the reading lists. Currently, you cannot import or export from any other application i.e Endnote, delicious, etc however this is smth that will be developed in the near future.

Finally, it works with any library catalogues and DOY such as Science Direct and IngentaConnect!

Further information can be found on the Talis website at http://www.talis.com/aspire/
There is also a useful video tour at http://blogs.talis.com/aspire/

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