Discovery Service EBSCO Designing a Better User Experience for Students

Vice President of Discovery Innovation, Gar Sydnor Vice President of Discovery Innovation, K12 and Publics gsydnor@ebsco.com @GarSydnor Worked with publics for 23 years ILS world up until now. Presentation is meant to be invitational rather than authoritative Ongoing Conversation By listening, studying evidence and usage, we can improve the Discovery Experience We have quite a bit of experience already gathered from the Academic market And we have some early adopter sites for publics

Web Search Engines vs. Discovery Web Search Engines comprehensive access to all things free/non-vetted, potential pay walls Discovery Service comprehensive access to premium, vetted content, delivery of full text content

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