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EBSCO’s Response to Gale’s Open Letter and Customer Questions
I received the following information from EBSCO this morning – a link to 3 PDF documents addressing some of the brouhaha over their ALA Midwinter announcement of exclusive magazine content. The URL indicates that may be a temporary location, so here are direct links to local copies: EBSCO's Response to Gale's Open Letter ICOLC Questions…
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Access 2010 Call for Papers
This year Access (The premier library technology conference in Canada) is being held in Winnipeg October 13-16. The Call for Papers has just been announced. Submissions are due Feb 15. I’m really looking forward to attending this year (last year PEI was just too far away to be economical). See you there?
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EBSCO Content Clarification and a Mea Culpa
This morning I received the following email from Susan at EBSCO Publishing (published with permission): Hi Paul, At ALA, EBSCO had a customer luncheon where we mentioned that our databases will have some newly unique content relative to other full-text database vendors. There are many unique full-text publications in our databases. These can be due…
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EBSCO exclusive content
Last Saturday EBSCO held a luncheon at ALA in which they dropped several interesting bits of information. First, in all EBSCO products they'll be switching the default from date to relevancy ranking sometime in the Summer of 2010. You'll still be able to change this in the Admin interface, but something to be aware of. …
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The trouble with de-duplication and web-scale discovery
One of the topics of discussion at last week's Summon Advisory Board was the status of de-duping records returned by Summon. On the face of it it seems to be a simple issue – if the titles and authors match, throw the duplicate records out and you're good to go. The Summon technical team explained…