EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS)

Planned Release: June 2009

• Allow user to stop and view results when at least one source is available• There will be insignificant wait time on this screen (<30sec)• Meshed with result list for less disruption

Tier 1

Tier 2• Initial Entry into Result List• Defaults to merged list of results from Tier 1 sources• Tier 2 sources available in Integrated Search panel, slower sources continue without affecting experience

Examples

• Business– Tier 1: Business Source Premier, ABI/INFORM– Tier 2: Mergent, ReferenceUSA

• Science– Tier 1: Science Ref Center, Web of Science– Tier 2: ScienceDirect, Science.gov

• Nursing– Tier 1: CINAHL, Medline, PubMed– Tier 2: Cochrane, ERIC, Academic Search

Great sources, but may be slower…

Great sources, but searchable text is

too sparse so suffers low relevancy rank…

Great source, but too general for subject…

More Notes on Tier 1 and Tier 2

• No limit. Sources can even be in multiple subject “groups”– Source can be Tier 1 in one subject group and Tier 2 in another

• Aids a faster user experience, secondary sources are still searched and cached so retrieving results is one fast click away

• Provides great flexibility to librarians and administrators– Tier1:2 model is an option, you certainly can default to merge all

• Concept is common on many current library e-resources web sites:

Control order, how Tier 2’s are highlighted

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Usability Testing

• Conducted several tests to evaluate the best designs, link placements, functions, etc and overall user experience

Catalog Records

Fielded Searching

• Search tags– Creator/Author = AU and AR– Title  = TI– Subject  = SU and DE – Source = SO and JN– Description = AB– ISSN  = IS– ISBN  = IB

• Also you can enter search tags specific to a database, just surround by quotes “”

– JSTOR Example:• james henry hammond  AND "ty:fla" • judy blume  NOT "ty:brv"

Can choose to retrieve More Results

Notes on deduping. An impartial algorithm evaluates the following…• Journals deduped on:

- Date Published, Volume, Issue, Start Page, Journal Name, Title, ISSN, Full Text

• Books and catalog records deduped on: -Date Published, Volume, Issue, Start Page, Title, ISBN, Physical Description, Publisher, Holding Location, Full Text

Setup Process

• Library fills out a form with the desired “connectors” (vendor, authentication type, etc)

• EBSCO Customer Satisfaction does the heavy lifting setup on behalf of the library

• EBSCOadmin’s feature set and organization structure leveraged

Connectors

Thomson Scientific

Gale

ProQuest

SirsiDynix

III

Ex Libris: Aleph, Voyager

OCLC WorldCat

LexisNexis Academic

Ovid

Elsevier: Eng Village, ScienceDirect

WilsonWeb

Encyclopedia Britannica

World Book Encyclopedia

Grolier

OCLC NetLibrary

Library Corp

Polaris

Follet

LibraryThing

OCLC FirstSearch

PubMed

JSTOR

OverDrive

Factiva

Chemical Abstracts

Google Books

Ebrary

Google Scholar

CAB International

AccuNet/AP Photo Archive

Plus thousands of others…

• EBSCOadmin can now be used to:

– setup any databases from any vendor

– customize the user experience for external databases

– generate statistical reports from external databases

– control subject area groupings of databases

– add labels of databases for unfamiliar end users