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How Can Academic Libraries Remain a Necessary and Important
Component of Universities?
2013
Libraries are competing with Google for the time/attention
of end users
Discovery services can help libraries remain
relevant & give end users a positive perception of the
library and its value
• Increase awareness of library collections
• Increase end user satisfaction
• Increase usage
EBSCO takes a unique approach to discovery
• Incorporates high-end subject indexes
• Partners with ILS vendors
• Focused on end-user experience
Stakeholders Strive to Define Standards for Web-Scale Discovery Systems
By Michael Kelley on October 11, 2012
Clarifies Various Important Items Regarding Discovery Services
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Why do Libraries invest in Subject Index Databases?
They give you the most scholarly, accurate and
current resultsfor a given Topic
Relevancy RankingEnd Users Want the Best
Results at the Top of the Page
Full-text searching for completeness, combined with subject indexing for
precision/accuracy
Relevancy RankingThe 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.)
What is wrong with full text searches and why do I need an
index…?
Indexes…take more time and
skill to produce but provide significantly
improved access, saving time and cost,
for the information seeker.”
By James Lamb, October 11, 2012Society of Indexers White Paper
“
Full-text searching gets us some of the way there, but it needs help. Detailed subject indexing allows for a much greater level of granularity and precision when it comes to fine-tuned algorithms for relevance ranking.
-Michael Gorrell Chief Information Officer EBSCO Information Services
“”
When the user experience is simplified, and the results are the
best they can be, libraries can effectively compete with Google for the time and attention of end users
Full-Text AccessibilitySmartLinks+™ / Link Resolvers
Even when the link resolver does not fail, it requires multiple clicks to get to the full text
“Digging into the Data: Exposing the Causes of Resolver Failure”
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University and Jason Price, Claremont Colleges
Link resolvers “fail nearly a third of the time”
EDS Complements Your Link Resolver with One-Click, 100% Accurate Access
to Thousands of Journals
• E-journal & e-package purchases via EBSCO provide one-click, 100% accurate links to the full text when the search originates in EDS
• Full-text database purchases via EBSCOhost provide one-click, 100% accurate links to the full text when the search originates in EDS
Inspec*
American Chemical SocietyAssociation for Computing Machinery
Cambridge University PressElsevier
Emerald Group PublishingIEEE
Institute of PhysicsOxford University Press
Sage PublicationsSpringer Science & Business Media
Taylor & FrancisWiley-Blackwell
7 full-text journals13 full-text journals34 full-text journals
479 full-text journals146 full-text journals186 full-text journals67 full-text journals18 full-text journals36 full-text journals
656 full-text journals179 full-text journals191 full-text journals
Total2,012
For example, e-packages from EBSCO complement your link resolver with
dramatically improved linking
*Requires Inspec to be accessed via EBSCOhost
Table of Contents »
Instant Access to Full Text
(Exactly what the user wants)
University of North Florida (USA) reported an increase in ScienceDirect usage of 247%
due to the implementation of EDS (previous year only 11%)
Case Study:EDS Increases Usage of a Top Publisher’s Journals
Bournemouth University (UK) reported an increase in ScienceDirect link-outs of 547%
over the previous year without EDS
Discovery/ILS partnerships mean more choices for libraries and
better resources for end users
Partners Include:• aStec• Bookhouse Culture
& Sci Tech Co.• CALYX• Capita Talis• Civica• BSZ• Futurenuri• Hyweb• Kuali OLE• Innovative Interfaces
• IZUM• L.A. Information
Technology• Logica Czech Republic• Mirtech Inc.• OCLC• Pergamom• SirsiDynix• Sophia• Soutron• Yordam
Rise in content and research
Increase awareness of library collections
Increase end user satisfaction
Increase usage
How to evaluate usage data?
FacultyRecommendation
Usage Statistics
Historical PriceIncreases
ValueMetrics
LocalRanking
Key drivers in decision making% of librarians indicating a metric as very important when making content decisions
Source : EBSCO Survey February 2010 - Times of Crisis Accelerate Inevitable Change
Leveraging analytics & usage
data to make more informed
decisions
We make collecting and evaluating usage data simple and direct…
…so you can make the most efficient, informed collection development
decisions.
Through a combination of EBSCONET Usage Consolidation and EBSCONET Analytics, you
can view a fully integrated “dashboard” presentation of critical cost-per-use data to
conduct “on the spot” analyses of
e-journals/e-packages.
Decision support metrics directly
within your e-journal management
workflow.
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
To view usage data in your EBSCONET workflow, you simply click on a package
name…
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
…to bring up a list of all the titles within that package.
You’ll see usage and cost per use right in this list.
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
…for a deeper drill down into the individual metrics for this package and its share of your
total collection.
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
…export key metrics to an Excel file…
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
…and select multiple packages to include and compare in a
summary file in Excel.
Analysis Reports
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
Pick the metric (cost, titles, usage) and how you want to analyze that metric.
Select one year of data or several years worth
EBSCONET AnalyticsComing soon
EBSCONET Analytics
The bar chart provides an easier view for comparing usage from one year to the next.
Libraries can bring a level of quality and sophistication to end users in a simplified way. Doing so will ensure libraries
remain not only relevant but also
critical to the success of our universities.
Thank You