Category: Linking
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Serials Solutions to compete with EZProxy
Serials Solutions has a press release today to announce the development of a product called Access Control Service, which is a hosted authentication and proxy service. Last year OCLC announced they were going to offer a hosted version of EZProxy, to go into production sometime this year, but I haven't heard anything more about it…
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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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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…
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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EBSCO Discovery Service – Now Available
I received an email last week that the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is now available. You can learn more at http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/ and there’s a link to request a free trial at the top of the page. It looks like they’ve given it the same look as the EBSCOHost products, though there’s mention that the colour…
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On the importance of good metadata
The December 2009 issue of Information Technology and Libraries 28(4) has a slew of articles around discovery systems, all written by librarians from UNLV. I'm hoping to read them over vacation, but no promises. I did read Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System by Alex A. Dolski and found it…
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QR codes in the library
Aaron at Walking Paper linked to this great short Prezi by Laurie Bridges on how using QR Codes in Libraries and Museums.
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When is a book alive, and what if you have the dead version?
My head’s spinning a little right now. Just had a visit from someone in our DocDel dept. who was trying to track down a chapter from the 2nd revised edition of Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, which our catalogue says we have through Ebrary. Except that the cited chapter had a publication date of 2006, while…
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Feed2JS moving to Google Code
Alan Levine posts that he’s moving the source code for the most excellent Feed2JS tool to Google Code. If you haven’t played with it before, Feed2JS was one of the first and best tools to take RSS feeds and provide you with javascript that allows you to embed those feeds within a standard web page. …
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JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)
I recently learned through a colleague of this wonderful database comparison tool from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK – the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT). “This site from JISC Collections aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases.” You can use it to…