In preparation for the Discovery service (Search-A-Roo) launch on Saturday, September 28th, Serials Solutions catalog records have been suppressed from the UAL Catalog. We will replace these records with new records in the near future. In the interim, if you need to know if we have access to an ejournal search the A-to-Z list.
On Saturday, Sept 28th we will make the new EBSCO discovery service (Search-A-Roo) available from the library homepage. You will see the search box prominently displayed. It does not replace any of our existing resources, but does provide a way for our patrons to search most of our resources at once.
In conjunction with this, we will also make the switch to the new A-to-Z List for eJournals that we receive as part of the EBSCO discovery service package. This replaces our old A-to-Z.
Finally, as part of this implementation we will temporarily suppress our catalog records for the majority of our ejournals. We will be replacing these records with new records in the near future. In the interim, if you want to know if we have access to an ejournal you simply need to search the A-to-Z list instead of the catalog.
The implementation of this new discovery service is a work in progress, not only for us but for all the OhioLINK libraries that have embarked on this adventure! We appreciate your patience and your feedback as we continue to develop this service.
You can now preview our new Discovery Service, tentatively called Search-A-Roo. Our library catalog is included in Search-A-Roo, as well as the OhioLINK catalog and the vast majority of our databases and electronic resources. We intend for Search-A-Roo to be live from the library’s main homepage toward the end of this September. Currently we are in test mode only.
Be aware that we are still customizing this service, and you should expect to see random changes in displays, results, and search functionality as we work through this roll-out process. Also, the catalog data in Search-A-Roo is about 6 weeks older than what is actually in our catalog. When we are fully implemented the coverage difference will be minimized.
As part of our transition to the new Discovery Service we are also migrating our eJournal A-to-Z list. The A-to-Z list is important not only because it allows us to find our electronic journals easily, but also because it helps the LinkSource link resolver locate full text.
One place the new A-to-Z list will eventually appear is in LibGuides. You can preview the A-to-Z list in LibGuides by using this link. Be patient, it may take a moment to completely load:
new ejournal A-to-Z list preview via LibGuides
You may notice that it allows you to limit a search to ebooks. You may find books contained in aggregator databases such as Education Research Complete, the OhioLINK EBC, and similar databases. Note that it does not currently include an individual ebooks that we may have in our collection.
What: HathiTrust: The Collection and Its Uses
When: May 6, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
Where: Bierce 154
Who: Any and all library faculty and staff who wish to attend
See more about the HathiTrust and its collections at their site HathiTrust.org
Topic Summary:
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with John Wilkin and Sigrid Anderson Cordell. Wilkin and Cordell will provide an overview of HathiTrust and will discuss some uses of the materials in the repository. HathiTrust is the world’s largest research library digital repository of published books and journals. The presentation will cover HathiTrust’s origins, as well as the collection and its relationship to library collections more generally. Wilkin and Cordell will also discuss uses of HathiTrust materials, with specific discussion of lawful uses and uses in the classroom.
The speakers:
John P. Wilkin is the associate university librarian for publishing and technology and the executive director of HathiTrust. MPublishing is the primary academic publishing enterprise of the University of Michigan and part of the University Library. Units include the UM Press, the Text Creation Partnership, the Copyright Office, Deep Blue (Michigan’s institutional repository), and a digital publishing operation responsible for electronic journals, content hosting, and many open access monographs. The Library Information Technology (LIT) Division supports the library’s online catalog and related technologies, provides the infrastructure to both digitize and access digital library collections, supports the library’s web presence, and provides frameworks and systems to coordinate library technology activities (e.g., authentication and authorization). Reporting units include Core Services, Digital Library Production Service, Library Systems, the Learning Technology Incubation Group, the User Experience Department, and Web Services.
Sigrid Anderson Cordell is the librarian for history and American culture, as well as the interim librarian for English literature, at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library. She holds a PhD in English and American literature from the University of Virginia and was a Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University Library in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. She has taught in the English department at the University of Virginia and in the Freshman Writing Program at Harvard University. Her book, Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century, was published by Pickering and Chatto in 2010. Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture and American Periodicals and is forthcoming in Neo-Victorian Studies and in portal: Libraries and the Academy.
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