[Eril-l] EBSCO Education Source retrieving fewer search results than expected?

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Thu Jun 5 12:37:20 PDT 2025


Hi John-

I saw this same situation when I ran a search I do each year in Sport
Discus.  It was also off by thousands.  I opened a case at Ebsco and they
are investigating it.

Kris

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion
list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> Dear List,
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> A colleague at my institution reports that the Education Source database
> on EBSCOhost is retrieving far fewer results than expected.
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> For example, a “Find all my search terms” search for [k-12 students AND
> meditation] currently returns 47 results, when in the past the same search
> has retrieved up to 20,000 results.
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> Has anyone else noticed such a discrepancy?
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> Thanks!
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> *John Holm* (he/him)
> E-Resources & Discovery Librarian
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