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DATABASES: DISCOVERY SERVICES:
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service
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Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service
by Brandi Scardilli
Posted On June 3, 2014
Information Today
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/
Getting-the-Most-Out-of-Discovery-Service-97380.asp
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Libraries have to do their fair share of marketing for their programs and
services. Fliers, posters, newsletters, you name it. But theres one aspect
of library promotion that goes on behind the scenes: showcasing what
materials libraries have in their collections. Thats why libraries need to
subscribe to a discovery service to help patrons find the resources they
need in their library catalog.
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Heres an overview of the four major discovery services, including their
newly implemented features.
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EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), from EBSCO Information Services
Tagline: Takes Discovery to the Next Level
Central Index: EDS brings together subject indexes, full-text sources, and
the entire library collection, offering a unified index. The subject
indexes come from dozens of sources to which a library can subscribe using
the EBSCOhost research platform. The full-text sources are leveraged from
EBSCOhost and other providers.
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Primo, from Ex Libris Group
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Tagline: Empowering Libraries to Address User Needs
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Central Index: The Primo Central index is offered as part of the Primo
discovery/delivery solution so libraries have a one-stop service for
research. It consists of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources
from primary and secondary (A&I) publishers and aggregators, with more
than 90% of content available as abstracts or full text. Primo is the only
discovery service with agreements for searching ProQuest and EBSCO
Information Services content.
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Summon, from Serials Solutions (a ProQuest business)
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Tagline: A Digital Front Door for the Librarys Resources
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Central Index: Summons single, unified index of content allows library
print and digital collections to be discoverable together without
prioritizing one source or publisher above another. It includes content
from commercial databases, open access (OA) and traditional publishers,
library catalogs using any ILS vendor, and local collections. ProQuest
normalizes all of its metadata before indexing it in Summon and adds
enrichments such as Web of Science and Scopus citation counts, Ulrichs
peer-review data, and CrossRef DOIs (digital object identifiers).
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WorldCat Discovery Services, from OCLC
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Tagline: Connect your library to the world.
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Central Index: Patrons can discover more than 1.5 billion electronic,
digital, and physical resources from global libraries in the WorldCat
database. Users also have access to a central index of metadata about
2,000 econtent collections from publishers such as Gale and Elsevier.
WorldCats OA content consists of 8 million-plus full-text items.
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Topics Covered in This Article Regarding Each of the Above Vendors:
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Tagline
Central Index
Library Services
New Features
Unique Draw
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