Category: Discovery
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OCLC takes the OPAC to the cloud
Damn, this is shaping up to be an interesting year in libraryland. OCLC has announced that they're going to offer a fully online ILS (Integrated Library System). As in, no desktop client for acquisitions or circulation, and Worldcat.org as the public interface. The official press release is here, Andrew Pace has a short piece, and…
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EBSCO fires a shot across the bow
Received the following email this AM: Dear EBSCO Customer, We are pleased to announce EBSCO Discovery Service, which will harvest metadata from internal and external sources, creating a centralized pre-indexed service of extraordinary size and speed. It will provide libraries with a single, simple entry point for research and launch users into the entire array…
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Federated or Broadcast or what do we call this stuff?
There's an interesting discussion happening right now on the Web4Lib Code4Lib mailing list – you can access it via the April archives; scroll down and look for the first post entitled Serials Solutions Summon. Basically it started as a discussion about whether Summon is a revolutionary or evolutionary product, and quickly turned into a discussion…
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More on New Discovery Tools for Online Resources From OCLC and EBSCO
Info Today NewsBreaks has a comprehensive look at the announcement I mentioned earlier this week about OCLC and EBSCO teaming up on a new Discovery tool. In it, Paula Hane does a good job explaining, comparing and contrasting the two front-runners in this "Holy Grail" as she puts it. (Actually I used to describe it…
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EBSCOhost Debuting Discovery Service, Aims at One-Stop Search Interface
EBSCOhost appears to be chasing Serials Solutions into the Discovery Service arena. According to the press release at LJ, the EBSCOhost Discovery Service will be available by the end of 2009. When asked what would set the EBSCOhost Discovery Service apart from other similar products, Gorrell cited EBSCOhost's access to its own 330 database offerings,…
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Unified Discovery Services
As we continue to charge towards the Taylor Family Digital Library here at the U of Calgary, the idea of unified discovery services is suddenly popping up frequently in casual (work) conversations and meetings. This is especially relevant at the UofC as our umbrella organizational structure is called Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) and consists…
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SerialsSolutions Summon
Got a press release from SerialsSolutions yesterday about a new product they're announcing – Summon Unified Discovery Service. A list of features can be found here. Sounds an awful lot like their current Federated Search product, 360 Search; I wonder if this product is the result of their acquisition of WebFeat early last year? From…