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Stefania Saccarola (Librarian) [email protected]

Nicola Tonon (IT Officer) [email protected]

Discovery Tools @ EIUC

BETWEEN OPEN SOURCE AND COMMERCIAL

PRODUCTS

A SMALL AND UNIQUE INSTITUTION IN AN INTERNATIONAL AND WIDE CONTEXT

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EIUC LIBRARY RESOURCES: (as of today)

• OPAC (Online Public Access

Catalogue): SBN (Italian National Library System)

• Swetswise electronic journals under subscription

• Nijhoff e-books • EBSCO A to Z open access

electronic journals • Oxford Scholarship Online e-books • HeinOnLine Database• Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public

International Law articles Collection

• HuriSearch• EUR-Lex• United Nations - Treaty

Collections• United Nations - Official

Document System• HUDOC • OSCE Databases• DOAJ

THE IDEA: A SINGLE SEARCH BOX FOR ALL THE RESOURCES

HOW: • DISCOVERY TOOL• FEDERATED SEARCH• LINK RESOLVER

WHY: • IMPROVED USABILITY • SIMPLIFIED RESEARCH• FASTER ACCESS• AMORTIZE EXPENSES

METHODOLOGY

• PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT TO OUR RESPONSIBLES

• INVESTIGATION OF MARKET OFFER

• MEETINGS WITH SPECIALIZED PRODUCERS

• EVALUATION OF COSTS AND BENEFITS: THE OPPORTUNITY OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES

WHO WE METOpen Source

USEFULNESS

• improving COMMUNICATION SKILLS • being INNOVATIVE

• paying in terms of IMAGE

THOSE TOOLS COULD BE USEFUL FOR THIS KIND OF INSTITUTION BY:

PROS AND CONS

OF WHO WE MET

AND WHY WE GO OPEN SOURCE

Summon SerialsSolutionshttp://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/

“WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES”

“GOOGLE FOR LIBRARIES”

+ SUMMON INDEX (REPOSITORY)

+ 360 LINK (OpenURL LINK

RESOLVER)

Summon SerialsSolutionshttp://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/

• INTUITIVE - EASY TO USE

• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE

• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE

REPOSITORY CONTENT

• RELIABLE - EXPERIENCE

• GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN

COSTS AND BENEFITS

• TOO EASY

• LACK OF FURTHER

RESPONSE AND SUPPORT

• NO AUTONOMY

• UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE

• UNCLEAR RANKING STRATEGY

• NO DEMO

ExLibris Primohttp://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview

“ONE-STOP SOLUTION FOR DISCOVERY

AND DELIVERY” + 2.0 EXPERIENCE

+ PRIMO CENTRAL (REPOSITORY)

+ SFX (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

+ bX (usage-based services)

ExLibris Primohttp://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview

• DIFFERENCED PROPOSALS

• INTUITIVE - EASY TO USE


• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE REPOSITORY CONTENT


• NEUTRALITY

• SOPHISTICATED TOOL

• BAD BALANCE BETWEEN

COSTS AND BENEFITS


• RANKING STRATEGY (bX)

• NO DEMO

• LACK OF TRANSPARENCY

EBSCO Discovery Servicehttp://www.ebscohost.com/discovery

“THE COMPLETE DISCOVERY SOLUTION”

+ EBSCOhost Databases (REPOSITORY)

+ EBSCOhost Integrated Search™

(EHIS)

+ EBSCO A-to-Z (REPOSITORY)

+ EBSCO LinkSource (OpenURL LINK

RESOLVER)

EBSCO Discovery Servicehttp://www.ebscohost.com/discovery


• PERSONALIZED DEMO


REPOSITORY CONTENT


• BEST BALANCE BETWEEN COSTS

AND BENEFITS

• DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF LIBRARIAN

ENVIRONMENT


• CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT EARLY

ANALYSIS


• UNCLEAR RANKING STRATEGY

• FEDERATED RESEARCH FOR MANY

RESOURCES

• NOT A SOFTWARE HOUSE

WHO WE METSwetswise Searcher - Deep Web Technology

http://www.swets.com/swetswise/swetswise-searcher

“THE GOOGLE OF FEDERATED

SEARCH”

+ SWETSWISE ONLINE CONTENT

& TITLE BANK (REPOSITORY)

+ SWETSWISE LINKER (OpenURL

LINK RESOLVER)

Swetswise Searcher http://www.swets.com/swetswise/swetswise-searcher



• NO INDEXING BY METADATA

• DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF LIBRARIAN

ENVIRONMENT


• NEUTRALITY

• USAGE REPORTING


• SLOWNESS (FEDERATED

RESEARCH)

THE OPEN SOURCE CHANCEPROS

• SUSTAINABILITY

• INDEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY

• INNOVATIVE APPROACH

• IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS OF INVOLVED STAFF

• HUMAN RIGHTS RELEVANCE

WHO WE METTHE OPEN SOURCE CHANCECONS

• IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES

• HUMAN RESOURCES DEPENDENT

• LESS REFINED FINAL PRODUCT

VuFindhttp://vufind.org/

• Catalog Records

• Locally Cached Journals

• Digital Library Items

• Institutional Repository

• Institutional Bibliography

• Other Library Collections and Resources

“THE LIBRARY OPAC MEETS WEB 2.0”

VuFindhttp://vufind.org/

• SECURITY



• COMMUNITY SUPPORT

• POWER

• SCALABILITY

• IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES

VuFind - Featureshttp://vufind.org/

• Search with Faceted Results

• Author Biographies

• "More Like This" Resource Suggestions

• Save Resources to Organized Lists

• Internationalization

VuFind - How Does it Work?http://vufind.org/

VuFind - Apache Solrhttp://lucene.apache.org/solr/

• Open Source enterprise Search Platform

• Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities

• Optimized for High Volume Web Traffic

• Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML,JSON and HTTP

• Comprehensive HTML Administration Interfaces

VuFind - Implementationhttp://vufind.org/

• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later (2.2.12 or later recommended)

• PHP 5.2.x• Smarty 2.6.26• MySQL 4.1 or later• Java J2SE JDK 1.4 or later

Requirements:

• Installation• Getting Records out of your

ILS • Importing and Managing

Records• Configuration and

Customization • Performance• Security• Search Engine Optimization

Documentation:

VuFind - Search Featureshttp://vufind.org/

Easily defines your own Custom Searches


Search with Faceted Results


Browses by call number, tags, language, subject...


Resource suggestions


Saves and Organizes Resources with tags

THANK YOU!

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