Library journal webcasts: Summon, Primo Central & Web Scale Discovery
Den 2 juni kunde man via Library Technology Guides läsa Serials Solutions pressmeddelande om effekterna av Summon vid Michigan’s Grand Valley State University:
- Summon is enabling students to go directly to full-text, boosting the use of a variety of databases. For example, Academic Search Premier saw a usage increase of 92% and ABI/INFORM rose 354%.
- Journal usage is up significantly. Before Summon, the use of individual journals in which the library had invested was generally going down. However, after Summon’s implementation at the close of August 2009, GVSU’s top 100 journals showed an average increase in usage of 48% and the top 1000 had increased usage of 82%.
- Increased usage occurs even for databases from content providers that are not participating in the Summon service, a result of the service’s indexing of the same content from alternate sources.
- Summon is having an impact on the type of content students are choosing. For example, the library has seen a significant increase in the use of newspaper content.
Discoveryplattformar och stora aggregerade index är onekligen i ropet. Jag har under dagen ägnat en timme åt att kika på Ex Libris webcast av Primo Central via Library Journal med titeln Primo Central: The Ultimate in Next-Gen Discovery: Raising Research to a New Level. Webcasten gick av stapeln lite tidigare men gjordes åtkomlig för de som registrerat sig idag. Jag antar att den kommer bli öppet tillgänglig i arkivet som de andra inom kort. Spana in på Library Journals Webcasts sida om en stund så finns den säkert där. Primo casten var mycket givande och om man tittar på den bör man även spana in två andra webcasts via Library Journal.
Dels The Success of Web-Scale Discovery in Returning Net-Gen Users to the Library: The Summon Service in Academic Libraries och dels Understanding the New Discovery Landscape: Federated Search, Web-scale Discovery, Next-Generation Catalog and the rest. Den sista var det något strul med efter registreringen, men den står på min ”sommarlista”.
