[Eril-l] Cassyni research video seminars: Title list update — control over journal series and institutional seminar collections

[Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list]

Dear colleagues,

Following my earlier post about Cassyni <https://cassyni.com/> going live
on EBSCO Discovery Service and Ex Libris Summon / Primo, several of you
contacted us with suggestions for making the collection more useful in a
discovery environment. Two of those are now live, and I wanted to share
them here.

*First, on metadata*. Each talk's record now includes a table of contents
alongside its abstract and existing structured metadata, giving the
discovery layer more of the talk's content to index than the title and
abstract alone. We are depositing these to multiple discovery indexes now.
Full transcripts remain available on the Cassyni platform.

*Second, on granularity*. A few of you wanted to work with the collection
at a finer grain control vs. "all or nothing.”  From this feedback, we are
now starting to split the full Cassyni collection into separate
sub-collections by source, for example by institution and by journal
series, rather than a single combined collection. In practice this means
you can activate the relevant Cassyni research video talks to your users:
the talks tied to journals your library subscribes to, or talks from
researchers at your own institution or a defined set of peer institutions.
All Cassyni talks are Open Access and available to all users regardless of
subscription, and the full Cassyni Collection provides thousands of
high-quality, multi-disciplinary video research talks.

For libraries that would like their own institutional researchers' talks
discoverable in the same way, Cassyni runs an optional Research Talks
Showcase: previously presented scholarly talks are collected into an
institutional page, each can receive a Crossref DOI, and they are then
indexed through the same channels as the rest of the collection
(Dimensions, EndNote, Inspec, Ex Libris CDI, EDS, and OpenAlex amongst
others), making them citable and discoverable alongside published articles
and scholarly outputs. Once collected, an institution's talks can be
activated through the same title-list selection as described above.  As
many users seek more video content, those who have activated the collection
are reporting that Cassyni videos support teaching, onboarding, and
graduate-level use on campus.

If you are already running Cassyni through Ex Libris or EBSCO and would
like to refine your title list, or would like to discuss activating the
collection for the first time, please get in touch. We can also help
institutions automatically discover and collect scholarly talks from across
campus (with our optional Research Talks Showcase service) so they can be
brought into the same discovery workflows.

Tim
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Tim Otto
Cassyni <https://cassyni.com/solutions/institutions>
*Discover & publish research seminars*
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