Presentation for SWON Conversation Starter - "Let's Talk about EBSCO Discovery Service"

1. Tina Beis
Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian
Let’s talk about EBSCO Discovery
Service!
Tina.Beis@myunion.edu
(513) 487-1210
http://library.myunion.edu

2. University
 FTE 1,000
 HLC accredited, non-profit, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD programs
 Online, 5 Academic Centers, students all over the world!
Library
 4 staff
 Library Director, Reference Librarian, ILL Librarian, Technical Services & Electronic Resources Librarian
 Fully online, No ILS
 EBSCO Discovery Service, Publication Finder, and Full Text Finder

3. How did we decide on EDS?
 Subscribed to EOS.Web (SirsiDynix)
 Paying $$ but only used the Cataloging module and the OPAC
 Students frustrated by the time and difficulty it took to search in various places
 Set-up trials for EDS, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery
 Vetted by Library Committee and Provost

4. What to select in EDS and Holdings Management…
 Decision made by Library Director and Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian;
then presented to other librarians for their input
EDS
 Everything that we subscribe to
 Relevant open-access partners
 Databases that would provide records useful for FTF and ILL
Holdings Management
 All databases, journals, & ebook packages that we subscribe to
 Relevant open-access journal and ebook packages
 Custom packages
Consult EDS Wiki & EBSCO Discovery Pulse Newsletter

5. Started trial 9/15 and went live 7/16
EDS Wiki & Listserv =
Announcements via LMS, Email, and Library website
Customizing EDS AKA OneSearch
Custom Catalogs
• ebrary eBooks (All subscription & perpetual access titles)
• UI&U Bachelor of Arts Theses
• UI&U Dissertations
• UI&U Master of Arts Theses
• UI&U Other (Kanopy, Psychotherapy.net, PsychiatryOnline)

6. UI&U Theses & Dissertations
Special UI&U Theses and Dissertations collection limiter
• Pull from our custom catalogs
• B.A. & M.A. records link to PDFs on one of our servers
• Dissertation records link to PQ Dissertations & Theses

7. Labels, Layout, Header, and Sidebar

8. Top Search Terms Report
EBSCOAdmin
• Reports & Statistics
• Search Analytics – Top Search Terms Report
Review at monthly staff meetings

9. Item Exact Match Placard
Films on Demand
Film on Demand
FOD
DSM-V
DSM V
DSMV
DSM 5
DSM-5
DSM5
DSM
Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders

10. Publication Finder API Carousel App

11. Issue Reporting

12. Instruction & Training
Tutorials, Videos, Bibliographic Instruction (in-person and video conference)

13. Feedback
• Survey
• LibQual
• Informal feedback during instruction and reference
• Word of Mouth

14. EDS Wish List
Citations
Metadata
Partnerships
Outdated MLA and Chicago citations
Ebrary, Open Textbook Library, ProQuest Dissertations
Issues with poor metadata from partners;
affects citations, ILL, and searches