[Eril-l] Project Muse individual ebook titles and knowledge base collections?

[Melissa Belvadi]

EBSCO's EDS has a "package" called "Project MUSE eBooks" which has over
54,000 titles. EDS librarian admins can selectively turn on specific
titles, either manually or by uploading a tsv file appropriately formatted.
We have the PM EBA but haven't used this package because we load all the
records into our catalog, and they are both searchable and clickable from
the "custom catalog" records in EDS that result from that. In EDS, adding a
title to the knowledge base does not also add it to the discovery service
search index. I don't know if that's true for the other discovery services,
but I'd be interested to know because that is a frequent point of confusion
for EDS librarians.
We have gotten a spreadsheet from PM that I could with some minor effort
load into EDS, but just haven't bothered because of the above custom
catalog option.


Melissa Belvadi
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University of Prince Edward Island
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:57 PM Lisa Gonzalez <lgonzalez at palni.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to check and see if any library using Alma, Summon or EDS has
> been using a knowledge base collection from Project Muse to manage
> title-by-title ebook purchases from Project Muse, which are available
> through GOBI and OASIS:
> https://about.muse.jhu.edu/librarians/book-products/. We use OCLC's
> knowledge base, and Project Muse provides knowledge base collections for
> the annual and the subject collections, but have not provided a
> title-by-title collection or an EBA collection. I had heard that other
> platforms had received title-by-title knowledge base collections from
> Project Muse, but I haven't been able to confirm that. Can any library
> using a discovery system other than OCLC's confirm that their system has a
> Project Muse knowledge base collection that includes all available ebooks?
>
> --
>
> Lisa Gonzalez | PALNI Knowledge Base and License Manager Librarian
> Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
>
> 317-550-5229 | lgonzalez at palni.edu | www.palni.edu
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