Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Search, Discovery and Delivery for Electronic Resources SELL - Porto – June 2011

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Outline B-on’s service today First Impressions of new service Main issues Next Steps

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level B-on’s service today In production since 2004 Based on federated search (Metalib): –Real time search in several “live” databases; –Search time limited by the slowest database; –The number of user interactions until reaching the desired information is often high and requires navigation in more than one interface. We have frequent complaints by our users.

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level B-on’s service today –We have ONE Metalib/SFX consortia license; –The configuration is the same for all institutions (pesquisa.b- on.pt), except for the resources; –There are two main content packages: one for Hospital Members and other for Academics Members; –Every institution has one of these content packages; –We manage access to these resources at a central level in the consortium Metalib/SFX; –We only provide electronic content. We don’t have catalogs or repositories.

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level B-on’s service today Based on b-on’s 2009/2010 study about new discovery services we decide to adopt Primo + Primo Central Index (hosted by Ex Libris) The implementation starts in January, 2011… … and still going on…

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level New Architecture

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level First impressions Good –The interface is simple and user friendly; –Searching in Primo central is fast; –Complete facets for refine results –Suggested new searches option –Good integration with SFX –E-shelf options –Primo central as a QuickSet in Metalib (already set)

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level First impressions Not so good –Primo Central contents coverage –Authentication (is not working) –How to lead with different needs in terms of member access to holdings (academic members x hospital members)? IP Institutions identification -> same primo with different holdings? Use search scopes? Use of tabs? We are waiting for EL clarification.

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Poor management interface; Main issues Lots of tickets open in Ex Libris support 2 – 4 weeks response time

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Lots of work related with portuguese version and translation Main issues

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Problems with integration between Primo and Metalib (access to ML QuickSets) Main issues

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level Searches in ML QS returns “No full-text” reference Main issues

Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level -Portuguese version -Error corrections -Usability tests Next steps -Authentication and access to holdings

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