<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Eduardo Gil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gile@mail.montclair.edu" target="_blank">gile@mail.montclair.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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.</div>
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