managing content in ebsco discovery service: action guide for surviving and thriving

Managing Content in EBSCO Discovery Service

Regina Koury and Charissa BrammerIdaho State University Library

NASIG 31st Annual ConferenceJune 10th, 2016Albuquerque, NM

About ISU

• A Carnegie-classified doctoral research and teaching institution.

• 14,371 students.• Migrated from Primo to EDS in 2014.

Image from: http://www.isu.edu/about/

Embracing New Technology!

• John Hubbard (2014) “From OPAC to Search Engine: Making the Case for Discovery [Discovery Tools Now and in the Future]”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqoaBMepJ8&feature=youtu.be

EDS=OneSearch

Placement on library page.

Wording on what content is searched.

Profiles• Two profiles: Main and IHSL (Idaho Health Science

Library)

Managing content in EDS: Main

• Library Catalog (Voyager ILS) holdings• EBSCO Admin: subscribed and free databases• Full Text Finder: Electronic + Print Journals

Managing content in EDS: IHSL

• Library Catalog (Voyager ILS) holdings• EBSCO Admin: selected databases• Full Text Finder: Electronic + Print Journals

Library Catalog: Suppressed items

• Run a full rebuild of the catalog, excluding certain locations and suppressed items.

Library Catalog: EBSCO eBooks

Library Catalog: EBSCO eBooks

Library Catalog:Bound With

First Title

Library Catalog:Bound With

Widgets/Apps

• Still not able to search the EDS search interface, so a widget/app is used for:

IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts) Therapeutic Research Center: Natural Medicines

Widgets/Apps: ClinicalKey

• First unable to be searched so EBSCO created a widget/app.

• In 2016, EBSCO was able to make ClinicalKey content searchable using EDS interface, so widget was removed.

Research Starters

AP Videos

Related Images

Managing content in EDS:Subscribe to:

EBSCO Discovery Service Content Update Newsletter: epreply@e.ebsco.comEDS Partners Listserv: EDS_PARTNERS@ebscohost.comRead:EBSCO Blog: https://www.ebsco.com/blog EDS Wiki: (need to register first): http://edswiki.ebscohost.com/EBSCO_Discovery_Service_Wiki

Full Text Finder

• Easiest portion of content to manage.

Customer Service

• Great with their engineering team, lately had snags with general support. Hoping this is just due to changing roles.

What’s next

• NISO ODI (Open Discovery Initiative): http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/

• Christopher Brown (2015) “Web-scale Discovery Tools and the Backgrounding of Government Information: http://www.slideshare.net/cbrownlibrarian/webscale-discovery-tools-and-the-backgrounding-of-government-information

Thank you!Regina Koury

Assistant University Librarian, Discovery & Resource Services

kourregi@isu.edu

Charissa BrammerElectronic Resources Librarian

bramchar@isu.edu