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From Search to Discovery in Our Future Library
This post includes the presentation that Josh Vawdrey (our IT Manager) and I gave at the recent THETA Conference in Hobart, Tasmania. It showcases our current and recent thinking, aspirations and work...
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How are discovery systems similar to Google? How are they different? by Aaron...
Like many academic libraries, we recently launched our discovery service Summon. Having worked intensively on this project since 2011 during the evaluation followed in 2012 by the implementation phase,...
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Influence of Discovery Search Tools on Science and Engineering e-books Usage
What impact do discovery tools have on the use of science and engineering e-book collections? This collaborative study compares usage data at four Canadian academic libraries (McGill University,...
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Paths of Discovery: Comparing the Search Effectiveness of EBSCO Discovery...
In 2011, researchers at Bucknell University and Illinois Wesleyan University compared the search efficacy of Serial Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, and conventional library...
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Library and Blue Ocean strategies (I) – the case of discovery services by...
As part of a new goal to start reading sources outside the library world for ideas, I have been reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant and I...
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Student Searching with EBSCO Discovery: A Usability Study
The researchers conducted task-based usability testing of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) with 20 students. While most participants felt positively about EDS, a few usability issues emerged....
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Discovery Pulse @EBSCO
This blog is dedicated to everything discovery from technology news, to industry perspectives, and product updates. At EBSCO, we are dedicated to innovation in web scale discovery. We have more than...
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Discovery Systems: Connecting the 21st Century Academic User to Content by...
Describes three projects using Discovery to serve academic users: Bibliometric studies of discovery content for graduate and faculty papers; Exposing Open Access content in the Discovery service;...
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#Unpaywall (A New #OpenAccess #DiscoveryTool)
Some of you may remember oaDOI, a tool that searches for an Open Access (OA) version of an article when provided with a digital object identifier (DOI). Impactstory, the team behind oaDOI, has just...
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