PASCAL Delivers & PASCAL eBooks: Using the Union Catalog for Statewide Discovery and Access
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Presented at LIBRIS 2015 Conference on Friday, May 15, 2015 by Phil Schneider, PASCAL The PASCAL Delivers catalog now provides full-text access to over 250,000 PASCAL eBooks from any-where! This session will cover improvements made to the catalog, including a new discovery tool, and ways that your library and patrons can take advantage of the new PASCAL offerings.
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- 1. Phil Schneider pschneider@pascalsc.org 803.734.0912 LIBRIS Conference PASCAL Delivers & PASCAL eBooks: Using the Union Catalog for Statewide Discovery and Access May 15, 2015
- 2. PASCAL eBook Initiative PASCAL is providing over 295,000 eBooks! • ebrary Academic Complete/College Complete/Public Library Complete (subscription thru 11/30/2016) • EBSCO Academic Collection (subscription thru 6/30/2017) • EBL consortial DDA (short term loans with triggered purchases) • Oxford University Press UPSO Psychology (335 purchased titles) Access at your library multiple ways: • Direct links to the eBook platforms • MARC records available for local catalog loads (let us know if we can help!) • Local Discovery (EDS, Summon) • PASCALCat
- 3. PASCAL eBook Initiative For all four vendors between May-Dec 2014: • Over 1.5 Million Views (1,565,136) • Over 100,000 Unique Titles (102,590) • Over 14K Full Title Downloads (14,402)
- 4. PASCAL eBook Initiative - PASCALCat How can we use INN-Reach (PASCALCat) for statewide eBook discovery and access? Three components: • Catalog cleanup • PASCAL eBook access from PASCALCat • Improved discovery tool--Encore
- 5. Catalog Cleanup via III’s Enhanced Match • More matchpoints & more validity checks • Reduced duplicate titles • Bad matches split (esp. print and ebooks) PASCAL eBook Initiative – PASCALCat
- 6. Before Enhanced Match: Print and eBook incorrectly merged
- 7. After Enhanced Match: Print and eBook split
- 8. PASCAL eBooks in PASCALCat • Discover and access all 250,000+ PASCAL eBooks from anywhere! • Record loads handled by PASCAL staff • Authentication handled like traditional PASCAL Delivers requests (uses III’s WAM) PASCAL eBook Initiative – PASCALCat
- 9. Encore for PASCALCat Encore is III’s next generation search interface and discovery tool • What are the biggest advantages? • More direct access to print and PASCAL eBooks • A better browse experience • Facets filter search results by format, language, year, etc. • Related searches & similar recently added titles • Google Book previews and book jackets
- 10. Encore for PASCALCat Notes: • Encore for PASCALCat is catalog only (no articles) at this point. • Article integration is possible, but not part of our current configuration. • PASCALCat classic will continue to be supported! • All requesting processes remain the same—for users and staff.
- 11. Encore for PASCALCat How do users find it? • Directly: http://encore.pascalcat.org • From the current (classic) catalog: http://pascalcat.org • From the PASCAL website: http://pascalsc.org • Search directly on PASCAL eBooks with pre-limited Encore search • Passthru searches: • For libraries with Encore, III can adjust the passthru search to send the search term from library Encore to PASCALCat Encore. • For Millennium libraries, the system generated passthru allows for a passthru from the catalog to Encore in the Millennium 2014 release. • For Sierra libraries, the system generated passthru is coming in Sierra 2.0 • Customized passthru searches can use the URL below: • http://encore.pascalcat.org/iii/encore/search/C__S[search term]__Orightresult
- 13. Demo Time • More demo slides only as backup.
- 19. PASCALCat New Feature—PASCAL Delivers title reports! • Collection development tool: reports on what titles your patrons are borrowing and your library is lending • http://pascalcat.org/iii/innreach/app • Includes author, imprint and call # info; also includes patron type • Includes Visiting Patron checkouts (these checkouts are not included in the traditional circulation stats) • Access: username=pascal, password=same as website password • Reports must be exported to Excel (the Bib Records File option creates a system file that isn't accessible outside of the PASCAL office)