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Information Today
October 24, 2013 |
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative Releases Recommended Practice Draft This recommended practice from the National Information Standards Organization provides guidelines for content providers and discovery service creators on how to address issues that arise in the use of indexed search as part of library discovery services.   |
Information Today
May 6, 2014
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
July 1, 2014 |
NISO's Recommended Practices Focus on DDA and Discovery Transparency Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs and Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery are available for free on NISO's website. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others. |
Information Today
June 21, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Primo Upgrade From Ex Libris Builds on Customization Strengths According to one expert, Primo has particular appeal to academic and research libraries in part due to the way its "toolkit" approach allows librarians to customize the service to their particular collections and clienteles. |
Information Today
July 20, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world. |
Information Today
February 26, 2015 |
NISO Releases White Paper on the Future of Library Resource Discovery NISO (National Information Standards Organization) published a white paper, "The Future of Library Resource Discovery," which summarizes the current discovery environment. |
Information Today
January 18, 2011
Marshall Breeding |
Library Automation News at ALA Midwinter Developments seen at the conference boil down into themes of a shift toward cloud computing, increasing interest in and development in discovery services, and emerging products that embrace new models of library automation. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010 |
OCLC and EBSCO Announce Expanded Data Exchange The new agreement is designed to create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. |
Information Today
October 16, 2014 |
Credo Announces Compliance with NISO Recommendations It is the first content provider to conform to and endorse NISO's recommendations for promoting transparency in discovery. |
Information Today
April 7, 2011
Barbara Quint |
HathiTrust Discovers Serials Solutions' Summon and Vice Versa Sometime this summer, Summon will begin offering full-text access through its discovery service with content matched to individual library holdings. |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
Information Today
May 7, 2012 |
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Now Available via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Publishing made the newly released Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset available through EBSCO Discovery Service. The dataset contains 12 million open-access catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries. |
Information Today
December 20, 2012 |
OhioLINK Chooses EBSCO to Provide Discovery Layer The Ohio Library and Information Network and its Library Advisory Council selected EBSCO Publishing to provide EBSCO Discovery Service as a shared service to OhioLINK libraries. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services. |
D-Lib
August 2005
William H. Mischo |
Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work Effective search and discovery over open and hidden digital resources on the Internet remains a problematic and challenging task. |
Information Today
October 7, 2014 |
OCLC Produces White Paper on Econtent in Libraries It identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and gives recommendations for improved econtent usage, discovery, and access in libraries. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
Information Today
May 3, 2010
Marshall Breeding |
Encore Synergy Launched for Article Discovery--A New Search Model This new enhanced version of Encore uses dynamic web services interoperability with content providers to layer access to articles into search results. |
Information Today
March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Roxanne Missingham |
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources. |
Information Today
March 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
New Strategies for OCLC; More Content for EBSCO Publishing In a major change of direction, OCLC, a leading vendor of services to and by libraries, has decided to shut down its hosting and reselling of commercially produced vendor databases, including ebooks. |
Information Today
October 1, 2012 |
Capita Partners With EBSCO Publishing to Enhance Library Resource Discovery Capita, an ILS vendor based in the U.K., partnered with EBSCO Publishing to offer integrated access to extensive electronic resources within Capita's existing library resource discovery solution, Prism and EBSCO Discovery Service. |
Information Today
March 18, 2013 |
Ex Libris Primo Central to Search SwetsWise Online Content Ex Libris Group, a library automation vendor, announced that mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content ejournal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials. |
Information Today
April 12, 2010 |
The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents File Now Part of EBSCO Discovery Service A new partnership will add the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents File (ETOC) to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). |
Information Today
March 27, 2014 |
NISO Releases Draft of Recommended Practice for Demand-Driven Acquisition NISO is interested in feedback from libraries already using a demand-driven acquisition ( aka patron-driven acquisition) model as well as institutions considering the option. |
Information Today
August 2, 2012 |
Chinese Ebooks From Apabi Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service The ebooks from Apabi are designed to offer a vast collection in a variety of subject areas to researchers in higher education, public libraries, corporations, and government. |
Information Today
November 11, 2010 |
EBSCO Discovery Service Expands With Content from ingentaconnect The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS -- EBSCO's comprehensive discovery service. |
D-Lib
April 2003 |
In Brief Report on the NLM/AMPA Archiving Forum... Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation... The Public Knowledge Project... Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature... The Internet Archive OAI-PMH Implementation... etc. |
Information Today
July 18, 2011 |
Summon Adds Hoover's Company Records Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records is a leading electronic distributor of information about U.S. and global companies, industries, and the people who lead them. |
Information Today
December 20, 2012 |
Summon Service to Index Content From German Publishers Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced that the company is working with several German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service. |
Information Today
February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
Information Today
March 12, 2009 |
Serials Solutions' Summon Service Adds Content and Development Partners The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year. |
| Information Today |
Springer and Ex Libris Partner to Offer Content via Primo Central Springer, a premier global scientific publisher, is the latest to join the rapidly expanding group of publishers and aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central |
Information Today
May 6, 2014 |
OCLC Adds Art History Resources to WorldCat OCLC introduced the Art Discovery Group Catalogue to bring together information from global art libraries into a single, searchable database in WorldCat. |
Information Today
April 1, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version. |
Information Today
April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
Information Today
June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections. |
Information Today
December 12, 2011 |
Marquis Who's Who Content Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service Metadata will be added from the Marquis Who's Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full-text searching for mutual customers, enabling them to search Marquis Who's Who collection of more than 1.4 million biographies alongside their own library's collection. |
Information Today
September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Searcher
June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
Information Today
May 9, 2013 |
BioOne Online Journals Now Searchable Via EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO Discovery Service users are able to search more than 100,000 scholarly articles from bioscience research journals in the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration Elsevier and Ex Libris Group announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. |
Information Today
January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
Information Today
October 2, 2014 |
ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service. |
Information Today
October 4, 2010 |
H.W. Wilson Database Content Included in EBSCO Discovery Service H.W. Wilson databases will soon be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service for mutual customers. |
Information Today
February 10, 2011 |
ARTstor Images Discoverable Through Serials Solutions' Summon Service ARTstor Digital Library provides more than 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. |
