Choosing and implementing a discovery tool at Hebrew University Edith Falk, Chief Librarian Hebrew University of Jerusalem LIBER CONFERENCE, 2015

Who are we?

Higher Education in Israel 8 universities ~ 60 colleges

HUJI The Hebrew University was founded in 1918 by visionaries including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann. It was opened on April 1, 1925 Today, it is located on three campuses in Jerusalem and a fourth in Rehovot

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HUJI 23,000 students

HUJI Nearly 40% of all civilian scientific research in Israel is conducted at the Hebrew University. About 3,800 research projects are in progress at the University, and 1,500 new projects are started each year.

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Academic Ranking of World Universities

Our Libraries

E. Safra Campus Jerusalem The Library Authority Mt Scopus Campus Jerusalem Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Library Law Library Education and Social Work Library Archaeology Library E. Safra Campus Jerusalem Science Library Mathematics and Computer Science Library The Albert Einstein Archive Ein Karem Campus Medical Library Rehovot Campus Rehovot Agriculture Library

Disappearing Libraries? The Future of Academic Libraries: Disappearing Libraries and Invisible Librarians :the impact of the print to digital transformation on library structure, services and functions over the next 10 years." ALA 2006 90 % of our budget goes to E-resources

Changing Learning Habits Today’s students are: Digital Mobile Independent Social Participatory Their learning spaces must provide: Flexibility Sensory stimulation.. Technology support. Decenteredness social and participatory opportunities. comfort

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Cultural Events

Our Mission << The Hebrew University Library Authority provides the institution researchers, teachers and students with all their needs in accessing sources of information, knowledge and data and equip them with the tools, assistance, environmental and technological conditions necessary for the use of these sources . All this , while adapting to relevant changes in the academic, social, legal and technological environment, and achieving maximum economic efficiency.>>

Why not Library Survey 2015, Faculty and Ph.D. students What is your starting point when you look for material? 36% answered Google or Google Scholar It is free It is user friendly It includes scientific resources and even “gray” literature It allows simultaneous search in many resources It allows saving in a private e-shelf and creating a bibliography It shows citations and other parameters It searches the full text It links to the catalog of your local library

Why not It is difficult to determine with 100% accuracy all that Google Scholar searches. Google cannot: Sort/search by disciplinary field Browse by title Limit search results Search the deep web There are not enough possibilities to deal with the results No access to the indexing of the databases. No access to the algorithm

20 Services Google Thinks Are More Important Than Google Scholar

What are we looking for? A Google-like tool, simple and efficient A tool that allows searching as many resources as possible, while allowing limiting the searches to resources accessible to library patrons A tool that allows dealing with the list of searches in as many ways as possible

A discovery layer for the catalogue A discovery tool at article level What do we need? A discovery layer for the catalogue A discovery tool at article level

Topical Search Dominates

A Discovery Tool A Central Index A Discovery Layer

What is a discovery tool?

The Central Index The collection of pre-harvested and processed metadata and full text that comprises the searchable content of a WSD service: Central indexes typically include full text and citations from publishers; full text and metadata from open source collections; full text, abstracting, and indexing from aggregators and subscription databases; and MARC from library catalogs; also called the base index, unified index, or foundation index.

Evaluating the Central Index parameters: scope of the content, item types, inclusion of the full text richness of the metadata. The central index has to fit the library collections on one hand and the type of users of the library on the other hand. Some databases are not included in any WSD (for example: Scifinder) Some databases are included in some WSD and not in others (especially Proquest and Ebsco) Even when a WSD vendor does not include a database, it may have basic, citation-level metadata for journal titles by a certain publisher (Elsevier or Springer).

The Discovery Layer Single search across the central index Fast response time Relevancy-ranked results list Facets, sort, and other tools for refining and using the results Connections to full text via direct links and OpenURL End-user accounts and features

Our solution New interface for the catalogue Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side Choosing a discovery tool Implementation

New interface for the catalogue Primo + Primo Central, by Ex-Libris Summons, by Proquest Discovery, by Ebsco

Our solution New interface for the catalogue Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side Choosing a discovery tool Implementation

Combined Search Catalogue Search Article Search

Our solution New interface for the catalogue Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side Choosing a discovery tool Installing three discovery tools on our server Checking of the three tools Choosing the best tools Implementation

The survey

The survey 10 searches on each tool Grade each tool from 5 to 1, based on the relevance of the results and the possibilities of dealing with the list of results After all the searches, grade the UI a fin des recherches, noter l’interface.

The survey 31 reference librarians 257 searches EDS received the best results for relevance and for dealing with the lists of results UI: almost the same for all three tools

Our solution New interface for the catalogue Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side Choosing a discovery tool Implementation

EDS + VUFIND= HUFind

Module preparation and installation The EDS module for Vufind adds the EBSCO tool search capabilities to the existing VUFind installation The module is prepared by EBSCO and sent to the library with detailed instructions..

Q.A.

Verification et corrections Q.A. Verification et corrections

The Final Result The Final results

Conclusion

Statistics VuFind + EDS

Statistics EBSCO

Quality of metadata Relevance of results Convenient access to full text Easy manipulation of result lists Convenient UI Good support Interoperability with other systems Constant development User friendly   Some databases are still missing More convenient reports interface More permissions to admin

Thank You for your attention Edith Falk