Category: Linking
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Sol on Discovering Discovery Services
Over at the Federated Search Blog, Sol has a great post called Discovering discovery services, where he explains what these new search products are, how they work, and how they differ from Federated Search. I’ll be including a link to this post when I introduce and open up our beta of Summon to our full…
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Wikipedia in the catalogue?
Image via Wikipedia I learned from Eric Rumsey that the State Library of Kansas includes Wikipedia articles in their OPAC. Here are some examples: http://topekalibraries.info/search/awikimedia. About 15 minutes later I saw that Aaron Schmidt posted on the DCPL Labs site that in a recent survey 88% “of people responded that they prefer the content from…
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Yet another followup post on Harvard and EBSCO linking
Peter Murray at Distruptive Library Technology Jester (aka DLTJ) has done a bunch of reading and thinking about the recently-hot issue of Harvard Business School Publishing charging extra to allow the use of persistent URLs in course reserves and content management systems. in his post, EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press, he goes in…
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A little more info on the Harvard linking BS
Following up on yesterday’s post about Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing PURLs within EBSCO, I received an email from a librarian at a small school who pointed out that the following appears at the bottom of each HBS publication within Business Source Premier/Complete: “Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009 Harvard Business…
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Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing UK libraries to build PURLs in EBSCO – are we next?
Just read a couple of deeply troubling posts at Libreaction and the library staff blog at the University of Lincoln in which librarians are crying foul over what appear to be mafia tactics by Harvard Business School Publishing. According to the Libreaction post: For a few years now HBSP have been requesting payments of as…
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Ready to try Summon? Go ahead!
Dartmouth, one of the first two (I think) libraries to sign on as beta partners with Serials Solutions’ Summon Unified Discovery Service, has opened the beta up to its entire campus community. And you can search it too! You’ll find a prominent link on their home page, or you can jump directly to the search…
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Citations your way – beta test SiteCite
Andrew Pasterfield, one of our library programmers, has built a tool for himself that you might also find useful. Site Cite allows you to bookmark websites with a URL of your choosing, so you can recite it to another person w/o having to look it up. As long as you can remember the URL of…
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This time we mean it! – Google to sell e-books
The New York Times is reporting that Google plans to begin selling ebooks by the end of 2009. "In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct…
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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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Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming
This brief article is very similar to our experience implementing 360Search here at the University of Calgary. Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming. Michael L. Nelson, Mary Ann Harlow, and Cassandra Kvenild. ONLINE, Vol. 33 No. 2 — Mar/Apr 2009