[Eril-l] Discovery Comparison

[Harold Bright]

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Hal Bright, MLS, AHIP
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Ramune Kubilius <
r-kubilius at northwestern.edu> wrote:

> It seems what you might want to look for is a desired features checklist,
> an update to this 2012 article…
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> http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/apr12/Hoeppner-Web-
> Scale-Discovery-Services.shtml
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> Ramune Kubilius
> Galter Health Sciences Library
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> Northwestern University
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Melissa
> Belvadi
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:58 AM
> *To:* Eduardo Gil <gile at mail.montclair.edu>
> *Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] Discovery Comparison
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> I saw at a conference an attempt at such a comparison but found it
> worthless because, as others have noted, some discovery services,
> especially EBSCO's, is very highly customizable as to content as well as
> even some relevance features, and the particular study I saw presented made
> vastly different judgments than we do about the content. We're a
> "everything plus the kitchen sink" type of profile for our main profile,
> and they were a "locked down to only what content we have licensed" and
> that makes a huge difference.  Also EBSCO's discovery service is tightly
> integrated with EBSCO subscriptions in terms of full text linkages, as well
> as EBSCOhost databases for content, so you have a totally different search
> experience if you use someone else as your main database platform for third
> party databases like PsycINFO (eg Gale or Proquest) or someone else as your
> subscription agent.
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> Melissa Belvadi
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> Collections Librarian
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> University of Prince Edward Island
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> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Eduardo Gil <gile at mail.montclair.edu>
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> I would also like to know the results and suggestions.
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> Thank you all
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> Ed
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> On 11/17/2017 1:24 PM, Bonnie Powers wrote:
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> Good afternoon-
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> Has anyone conducted a comprehensive comparison of search results from
> OCLC Discovery and EDS? Looking for both insight from any such testing as
> well as guidance on how to go about comparing the two. We are a WMS library
> currently using Discovery only.
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> Best,
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> Bonnie
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