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The Citation List tool is being developed by the Sakaibrary project.
Project site is available at: http://sakaibrary.org
Project wiki is available at: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SLIB/Home
Purpose and Overview of Tool
The purpose of the Citation List tool is provide access library content from within a course site. The Citation List tool makes it possible for institutions to connect to their library's metasearch service (Metalib X-Server, SRSI SingleSearch) to provide access to electronic content the library provides to the campus. Through modifications to the Resources tool, users will have the option to add a "Citation List" in addition to URL, Simpletext Doc, etc. Upon selecting the citation list, users can select "Search Library Resources" or "Create New Citation". When searching library resources, users will retrieve search results and add citations to their citation list. Stable links will be created using OpenURLs. When creating citations manually, an OpenURL will be generated from the available metadata. Copies of these citation lists can then be attached to other items (assignments, discussion postings, calendar items, etc.) within Sakai.
History
Evolving out of Twin Peaks, the Citation List tool being developed with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is a collaborative effort of staff at Indiana University and the University of Michigan, with input from project partners at UC-Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Stanford, and Yale. Phase I development was completed in Fall 2006. Uability testing was completed on both the Indiana and Michigan campuses. Faculty, librarians, teaching assistants, and students completed a series of tasks that provided us with valuable feedback on how our users want to work with the citation list tool. This feedback has influenced designs and functionality in Sakaibrary 2.4.