EBSCO Discovery Service

Discovery Background –Quickly –By small development teams –Using rudimentary relevance algorithms built around searching article titles and words within the full text –Often as a side project for companies who invest more technical resources into ILS First generation discovery services were developed:

EDS Background –Years in the making –Extraordinary technical development resources pre-launch –By far the main technical focus of EBSCO post launch (EBSCO is not diverted by ILS, instead choosing to partner with existing ILS vendors): 330 of 424 developers & software engineers working on EDS as of 2014 –Sophisticated relevance and value ranking algorithms refined through unparalleled end user testing EDS is next generation technology:

Discovery Service Adoption Worldwide 2014 EBSCO stands as the front-runner, with a long lead of 5,612 library subscribers to EDS. OCLC reports 1,717 libraries with access to WorldCat Local, though a smaller number use it as their primary discovery interface. Ex Libris has licensed Primo to 1,407 libraries. ProQuest reports 673 libraries using Summon. American Libraries April 15, 2014 [Marshall Breeding] “ ”

NISO Report “The Future of Library Resource Discovery” Marshall Breeding February 18, zine.org/2015/05/01/library- systems-report/ zine.org/2015/05/01/library- systems-report/ Discovery Service Adoption Worldwide 2015

What is Discovery? Three Interlinked Systems EDS Publication Finder Full-Text Finder

Global Search Scope Local Search Scope Link to FullText Think of these systems as

EDS Publisher Provided Full-Text (Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, etc.) Partner Databases (Web of Science, SCOPUS, TEMA etc.) Partner Databases on EBSCOhost (PsycINFO, INSPEC, etc.) Library Catalog Institutional Respository EBSCO Discovery Service

Focus on the user and all else will follow… Google: 10 things we know to be true

Using EBSCO Discovery as the library home page

Embedding EBSCO Discovery in the Library homepage

Offering Guest access

Enhancing the Search Box...

Results enhanced with Research Starters, Koha Catalogue, widgets

Increasing visibility of your collections

Focus in on a particular resource

Incorporate the OPAC e.g. Heritage

Shared catalogues

Showcase certain products

Incorporating local collections

Highlight ebooks

No dead- ends

Incorporate Inter-Library Loan

Discovery Services: A White Paper For The Texas State Library & Archives Commission By Arta Kabashi, Christine Peterson, And Tim Prather Amigos Library Services August 2014

Link to Executive Summary Discovery Services: A White Paper For The Texas State Library & Archives Commission By Arta Kabashi, Christine Peterson, And Tim Prather Amigos Library Services August 2014

EBSCO’s Relevance Ranking The system has the following priorities and has no bias toward content from any provider: 1) Match on subject headings from controlled vocabularies 2) Match on article titles 3) Match on author keywords 4) Match on keywords within abstracts 5) Match on keywords within full text Exact Matches: Exact matches are favored over partial matches – considering also the field in which those words appear (abstract vs. full text vs. title, etc.) Density: The number of times the word(s) appears relative to the size of the document (more is better) – considering also the field in which those words appear (abstract vs. full text vs. title, etc.)

Evaluating the Central Index Is the indexed content a good fit? –Inclusion of your journals titles and holdings –Inclusion of your subscribed databases Richness of metadata Ability to incorporate desired content in the future 27 Athena Hoeppner

Concept-based Search EDS includes content with high-quality subject indexing using different specialized vocabularies Unfortunately, user search terms and precise subject indexing terms do not always align Opportunity exists to better leverage subject indexing for keyword- based discovery in EDS

EDS includes mapping of “see also” and “use for” terms in nearly 100 index thesauri Academic Search America: History & Life Art Abstracts ATLA Religion Database Business Source CAB Abstracts CINAHL GeoRef HeinOnline Historical Abstracts Inspec MathSciNet MEDLINE / PubMed MLA International Bibliography PsycINFO RILM Abstracts of Music Literature SocINDEX SPORTDiscus

Team, Full Support of Discovery Discovery Solutions Coordinator Software as a Service (SaaS) Operations Catalog Specialists Training Specialists Discovery Service Engineer Technical Support

Support network >8,200 ‘developers’, ‘support staff’ for EDS

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