Discovery tools that can be customized for your library can be a powerful alternative to Web search engines like Google. Dee Ann Allison, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, will show you how libraries can customize these tools to provide an Information Portal that brings together the best resources for our communities.
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A followup on our 2011 presentation on the new Linked Open Digital Library, discussing how we are creating a digital library centered around LInked Open Data. Include details on how we are creating a dataset of botanists and their publications that is to be shared as linked open data.
Selecting implementing and teaching a web scale discovery toolChris Sweet
In the fall of 2010, Illinois Wesleyan University reviewed all the major web-scale discovery tools available to libraries. We chose to be a beta-test site for EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) and conducted usability testing with students. We eventually purchased EDS and did a full roll-out this past fall semester.
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How discovery impacts of users' experiencesKatherine Rose
In the 21st century the academic library supports both research activities and teaching outcomes of faculty members and students through web-scale discovery services. These discovery services embrace new technologies to provide deep discovery of vast scholarly collections from a one-stop access interface, relying on a central index of pre-harvested data. With unified indexing of full-text library content, users’ experience of search and retrieval is greatly improved.
Discovery is changing the way that library users find and access library materials, especially electronic resources. In the opening part of this presentation, I will share my experiences of using different discovery systems – Summon, Primo and Enterprise – in my current and previous roles, in term of differences, strengths and common areas among these tools. Relevant findings from the literature and latest research reports will be sketched. I will also speak of how technical services teams can support the next generation of discovery systems that will help the progress of the digital library field. The presentation will conclude with the approach of technical services towards future discovery.
EBSCO Discovery Services: update and roadmapKatherine Rose
EBSCO Discovery Service is significant in its ability to expose relevant results to your library users. Its means of doing this is unique, but EBSCO recognises that the requirements of libraries and demands of library users evolves rapidly.
Richard will share road map items for EBSCO Discovery Service, highlighting how changing research habits are impacting upcoming user interface features. In addition, Richard will share details of the Holdings and Link Management (HLM) administration area and how it is evolving into a tool that does so much more than managing your holdings for EDS and Full Text Finder – from consolidating COUNTER statistics to providing Cost per Use analysis to Collection Analysis to tracking licenses and other key resource details.
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
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Selecting implementing and teaching a web scale discovery toolChris Sweet
In the fall of 2010, Illinois Wesleyan University reviewed all the major web-scale discovery tools available to libraries. We chose to be a beta-test site for EBSCO’s Discovery Service (EDS) and conducted usability testing with students. We eventually purchased EDS and did a full roll-out this past fall semester.
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How discovery impacts of users' experiencesKatherine Rose
In the 21st century the academic library supports both research activities and teaching outcomes of faculty members and students through web-scale discovery services. These discovery services embrace new technologies to provide deep discovery of vast scholarly collections from a one-stop access interface, relying on a central index of pre-harvested data. With unified indexing of full-text library content, users’ experience of search and retrieval is greatly improved.
Discovery is changing the way that library users find and access library materials, especially electronic resources. In the opening part of this presentation, I will share my experiences of using different discovery systems – Summon, Primo and Enterprise – in my current and previous roles, in term of differences, strengths and common areas among these tools. Relevant findings from the literature and latest research reports will be sketched. I will also speak of how technical services teams can support the next generation of discovery systems that will help the progress of the digital library field. The presentation will conclude with the approach of technical services towards future discovery.
EBSCO Discovery Services: update and roadmapKatherine Rose
EBSCO Discovery Service is significant in its ability to expose relevant results to your library users. Its means of doing this is unique, but EBSCO recognises that the requirements of libraries and demands of library users evolves rapidly.
Richard will share road map items for EBSCO Discovery Service, highlighting how changing research habits are impacting upcoming user interface features. In addition, Richard will share details of the Holdings and Link Management (HLM) administration area and how it is evolving into a tool that does so much more than managing your holdings for EDS and Full Text Finder – from consolidating COUNTER statistics to providing Cost per Use analysis to Collection Analysis to tracking licenses and other key resource details.
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
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2. What are Discovery Tools?
A discovery tool provides a single point of access to a range of library
resources that enables users to search multiple resources with a single
search.
Some Examples:
EBSCO Discovery Service
Summon service (Serial Solutions)
AquaBrowser Library (Serial Solutions)
Encore Discovery (Innovative Interfaces)
Primo Central (Ex Libris Group )
Blacklight – open source University of Virginia
3. Reasons why you might want a discovery tool
1. Simplify the research process with a single search.
2. Market locally created databases to your community to increase
visibility and use.
3. Provide a more intuitive search interface that encourages discovery.
No more complex searching that confuses users.
4. Improve the “depth” of the metadata to index content not included in
your catalog.
5. Integrate Web 2.0 options with your search engine, e.g. tagging,
reviews. Give your searchers a reason to return to your site.
6. Enhance remote access to your library.
7. Make searches successful
8. Promote the library as a quality research source that meets the
changing expectations of our users.
4. OpenURL Results against Coverage File
OpenURL Results that Don't Match
180000
160000
G
O OCLC
140000 O CSA-Sociological Abstracts
G
L Elsevier
120000 E emerald
Compendex
S
Google
100000 C
H MathSciNet
O ResearchPro
80000 L scifinder
A
R SilverPlatter
60000 Ulrich
WilsonWeb:OmnifileSelect
40000 CSA- Water Resources
CSA:DAAI
20000
0
Sorry, based on the information provided there were no matches
6. Do your homework
• Who do you expect to use this tool?
• How are you going to build on your catalog?
• What resources to do want to bring together?
• How do you want to integrate with other services and products?
• What are your preferences for integrating the results? For
authentication?
for example, with articles – they can be integrated, separated, or faceted.
• Talk to librarians using the system – try to get a login to
demo
7. The Discovery Frontier (the race is on)
AquaBrowser Serials Solutions Queens Library http://aqua.queenslibrary.org/
Summon Serials Solutions Dartmouth College Library http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/ho
me/find/summon/
EBSCO Discovery Service James Madison University http://www.lib.jmu.edu/
Discovery (EDS)
Encore Discovery Innovative University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://encore.unl.edu
Interfaces Libraries
Primo Ex Libris Vanderbilt University Library http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/pr
imo_library/libweb/action/search.do?v
id=VANDERBILT&reset_config=true
Worldcat Local - OCLC Univ. of Washington Libraries http://www.lib.washington.edu/
Blacklight University of Virginia Library http://search.lib.virginia.edu/
VuFind Colorado State University http://discovery.library.colostate.edu/
Libraries
8. Open source alternatives
• Blacklight
– University of Virginia http://virgobeta.lib.virginia.edu/
– North Carolina University http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/
• VuFind
– Colorado State University Libraries http://discovery.library.colostate.edu
– Yale University http://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind
• SOPAC (Social Opac)
– Ann Arbor District Library http://www.aadl.org/catalog
– Darien Library http://www.darienlibrary.org
• Scriblio
– Hong Kong University of Science & Tech.
http://catalog.ust.hk/catalog/smartcat
• Fac-Back-OPAC
− Paul Smith’s College Book Catalog http://library.paulsmiths.edu/catalog
9. Differences
What full-text can be included from vendors?
These are proprietary beasts and agreements must be reached.
Technology architecture is different
Facets for search limiters and expanders
Results are presented differently (to integrate or not)
Harvesting, some use OAI
Real-time issues
Network issues and response time (hosted or local)
Social networking capabilities
Advance search capabilities
Cost
10. Aquabrowser the Discovery Layer
• Hosted by Serial Solutions.
• Results are ranked by relevance
• Word Cloud with thesaurus and associative terms, translations and
spelling suggestions are automatically generated from resources
• Faceted navigation uses locally created mapping
• Real time availability of item status
• ADA compliant interface
• Supports sorting by title, author, publication date
• Web 2.0 features for lists, tags, ratings, reviews
• Library-configurable relevancy ranking
• Integration with a library’s 360 Search (Federated Search Service)
subscription
• Two additional local data sets/local collections
• No advance search
11. Summon Web scale discovery
• Hosted Service
• Journal and periodicals articles
• Relevancy-ranked list
• Incorporates library holdings
• Export citations to bibliographic management software
• Scholarship facet
• Includes abstracts, item location, online full text availability
• Advanced search
12. EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
• Databases from EBSCOhost, (customer subscribed)
• Databases from non-EBSCOhost databases (customer subscribed)
• OPAC loaded directly; includes real-time availability checks and daily
updates(and searched along with all other content)
• Supports book jacket images, book records, entertainment
records, annotations, family keys, subject headings, demand
information, awards, review citations, etc.
• Institutional archives/repositories directly loaded
• Facet options including subject, source, publication
• Includes alerts
• Includes RSS options
• Image Quick View
• Supports a variety of “widgets” and export portions of EBSCOhost
functionality onto library web sites
13. Primo
• Hosted or Local
• Harvests catalog and library has options for configuring metadata
including relevancy ranking.
• Uses hosted central index for full-text materials including articles, e-
books, which are delivered by publishers technology.
• “Primo Deep Search” which provides searching for resources not in
Primo Central but are compliant with an API.
• Ex Libris MetaLib® gateway for other resource linking and links-out
for other full-text and services.
• Facet options including subject, source, publication.
• Multilingual thesauri.
• webpage harvesting capability.
• Spell check – “did you mean.”
• Social networking, tags, reviews.
• Limited advance search (and)
14. Worldcat Local
• Resolves full-text through OpenURL
• Facets
• Integration with social bookmaking sites
• Includes catalog and article citations
• Supports citation export
• Single integrated result set
• Integrates with Illiad
• Supports book covers, book reviews, user contributed
reviews, tagging and recommendations.
• Offers advanced search for expanding and limiting searches
• Supports “and” Boolean searching.
15. BlackLight – Open Source
• Search items the Library has catalogued, including books,
journal titles, DVDs, CDs, sheet music, websites, and microfilm,
and also, digital collections of images and texts;
• Filter results by format, dates, and keywords;
• Sort results by relevancy ranking, date received, author, title or
call number;
• Save and share searches and results in Delicious, and,
VIRGObeta, RefWorks and Zotero;
• Generate an RSS feed for search, for notification when the
Library acquires materials in your subject area.
• Request item
• Article integration
16. VuFind – Open Source
• Search items the Library has catalogued, website, and
institutional repository.
• Limit results by collection, format, dates, and keywords.
• Supports limiting to items with illustrations, full-text, or
stemming (searches work so includes working, works, etc.)
• Sort results by relevancy ranking, date received, author, title or
call number;
• Supports bookmarking, citation exporting.
• No articles at the present time.
17. Encore
• Local or hosted
• Searches the catalog and harvested collections (OAI protocol).
Supports advance searches for “and/or”.
• Facets for limiting and expanding searches. Can do call number
searches.
• Sort by relevancy, title and date.
• Integration with Millennium Course Reserves, Media & Electronic
Reserves.
• Integration with Millennium Program Registration Event Calendar
• Library staff ability to promote individual titles in RightResult™
ranking.
• Expanded local links and branding Integration with Meebo™ online
• OpenURL resolver integration for services
• Inclusion of Google Books™ preview
• Community comments, ratings and tags.
18. Discovery Tool Checklist
Hosted or local (implications for staffing requirements and response time)
Real-time updating from the catalog
Currency of articles
Full-text limiting
Peer review limiting
Choice of databases for inclusion
Authentication method
Options for local databases (OAI or other methods)
Flexibility to easily expand or limit queries, and support serendipitous
discovery
Web 2.0 features
Tagging ratings, reviews, exporting
Browser, ADA, and mobile compatibility
Local control (webpac backup)
19. Form Searching
The ability to add code to any webpage for searching.
(http://ethics.unl.edu/ethics_resources/index.shtml)
20. LibGuide on adding forms to web
pages
URL: http://unl.libguides.com/content.php?pid=134792
21. Resources
Evaluating and comparing discovery tools: how close are we
towards next generation catalog? By Sharon Q. Yang, Library
Hi Tech, v. 28, no. 4, Apr. 2010, p. 690-709.
Information portals: the next generation catalog, by DeeAnn
Allison, Journal of Web Librarianship, v. 4, no. 4, Oct.-Dec.
2010, p. 375-389.
Dee Ann Allison
dallison1@unl.edu
317 Love Library
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0410
(402)472-3944