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Stefania Saccarola (Librarian)

stefania.saccarola@eiuc.org

Nicola Tonon (IT Officer)

nicola.tonon@eiuc.org

Discovery Tools @ EIUC

BETWEEN OPEN SOURCE AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS

A SMALL AND UNIQUE INSTITUTION IN AN INTERNATIONAL AND WIDE CONTEXT

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EIUC LIBRARY RESOURCES:

(as of today)

• OPAC (Online Public Access

Catalogue): SBN (Italian National Library System)

• Swetswise electronic journals

under subscription

• Nijhoff e-books
• EBSCO A to Z open access

electronic journals

• Oxford Scholarship Online e-books
• HeinOnLine Database
• Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public

International Law articles Collection

• HuriSearch
• EUR-Lex
• United Nations - Treaty

Collections

• United Nations - Official

Document System

• HUDOC
• OSCE Databases
• DOAJ

THE IDEA:

A SINGLE SEARCH BOX FOR ALL THE RESOURCES

HOW:

• DISCOVERY TOOL
• FEDERATED SEARCH
• LINK RESOLVER

WHY:

• IMPROVED USABILITY
• SIMPLIFIED RESEARCH
• FASTER ACCESS
• AMORTIZE EXPENSES

METHODOLOGY

• PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT TO OUR

RESPONSIBLES

• INVESTIGATION OF MARKET OFFER
• MEETINGS WITH SPECIALIZED PRODUCERS
• EVALUATION OF COSTS AND BENEFITS: THE

OPPORTUNITY OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES

WHO WE MET

Open Source

USEFULNESS

• improving COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• being INNOVATIVE
• paying in terms of IMAGE

THOSE TOOLS COULD BE USEFUL FOR THIS KIND OF INSTITUTION BY:

PROS AND CONS OF WHO WE MET AND WHY WE GO OPEN SOURCE

Summon SerialsSolutions

http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/ “WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES” “GOOGLE FOR LIBRARIES” + SUMMON INDEX (REPOSITORY) + 360 LINK (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

Summon SerialsSolutions

http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/

• INTUITIVE - EASY TO USE
• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE
• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE

REPOSITORY CONTENT

• RELIABLE - EXPERIENCE
• GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN

COSTS AND BENEFITS

• TOO EASY
• LACK OF FURTHER

RESPONSE AND SUPPORT

• NO AUTONOMY
• UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE
• UNCLEAR RANKING STRATEGY
• NO DEMO

ExLibris Primo

http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview “ONE-STOP SOLUTION FOR DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY” + 2.0 EXPERIENCE + PRIMO CENTRAL (REPOSITORY) + SFX (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER) + bX (usage-based services)

ExLibris Primo

http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview

• DIFFERENCED PROPOSALS
• INTUITIVE - EASY TO USE
• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE
• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE

REPOSITORY CONTENT

• RELIABLE - EXPERIENCE
• NEUTRALITY
• SOPHISTICATED TOOL
• BAD BALANCE BETWEEN

COSTS AND BENEFITS

• UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE
• RANKING STRATEGY (bX)
• NO DEMO
• LACK OF TRANSPARENCY

EBSCO Discovery Service

http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery “THE COMPLETE DISCOVERY SOLUTION” + EBSCOhost Databases (REPOSITORY) + EBSCOhost Integrated Search™ (EHIS) + EBSCO A-to-Z (REPOSITORY) + EBSCO LinkSource (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

EBSCO Discovery Service

http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery

• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE
• PERSONALIZED DEMO
• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE

REPOSITORY CONTENT

• RELIABLE - EXPERIENCE
• BEST BALANCE BETWEEN COSTS

AND BENEFITS

• DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF LIBRARIAN

ENVIRONMENT

• SOPHISTICATED TOOL
• CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT EARLY

ANALYSIS

• UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE
• UNCLEAR RANKING STRATEGY
• FEDERATED RESEARCH FOR MANY

RESOURCES

• NOT A SOFTWARE HOUSE

WHO WE MET

Swetswise Searcher - Deep Web Technology

http://www.swets.com/swetswise/swetswise-searcher “THE GOOGLE OF FEDERATED SEARCH” + SWETSWISE ONLINE CONTENT & TITLE BANK (REPOSITORY) + SWETSWISE LINKER (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

Swetswise Searcher

http://www.swets.com/swetswise/swetswise-searcher

• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE
• LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE
• NO INDEXING BY METADATA
• DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF LIBRARIAN

ENVIRONMENT

• SOPHISTICATED TOOL
• NEUTRALITY
• USAGE REPORTING
• UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE
• SLOWNESS (FEDERATED

RESEARCH)

THE OPEN SOURCE CHANCE

PROS

• SUSTAINABILITY
• INDEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY
• INNOVATIVE APPROACH
• IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND

TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS OF INVOLVED STAFF

• HUMAN RIGHTS RELEVANCE

WHO WE MET THE OPEN SOURCE CHANCE

CONS

• IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES
• HUMAN RESOURCES DEPENDENT
• LESS REFINED FINAL PRODUCT

VuFind

http://vufind.org/

• Catalog Records
• Locally Cached Journals
• Digital Library Items
• Institutional Repository
• Institutional Bibliography
• Other Library Collections and

Resources “THE LIBRARY OPAC MEETS WEB 2.0”

VuFind

http://vufind.org/

• SECURITY
• FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE
• SOPHISTICATED TOOL
• COMMUNITY SUPPORT
• POWER
• SCALABILITY
• IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES

VuFind - Features

http://vufind.org/

• Search with Faceted Results
• Author Biographies
• "More Like This" Resource

Suggestions

• Save Resources to Organized

Lists

• Internationalization

VuFind - How Does it Work?

http://vufind.org/

VuFind - Apache Solr

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

• Open Source enterprise

Search Platform

• Advanced Full-Text Search

Capabilities

• Optimized for High Volume

Web Traffic

• Standards Based Open

Interfaces - XML,JSON and HTTP

• Comprehensive HTML

Administration Interfaces

VuFind - Implementation

http://vufind.org/

• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or

later (2.2.12 or later recommended)

• PHP 5.2.x
• Smarty 2.6.26
• MySQL 4.1 or later
• Java J2SE JDK 1.4 or later

Requirements:

• Installation
• Getting Records out of your

ILS

• Importing and Managing

Records

• Configuration and

Customization

• Performance
• Security
• Search Engine Optimization

Documentation:

VuFind - Search Features

http://vufind.org/

Easily defines your own Custom Searches

VuFind - Search Features

http://vufind.org/

Search with Faceted Results

VuFind - Search Features

http://vufind.org/

Browses by call number, tags, language, subject...

VuFind - Search Features

http://vufind.org/

Resource suggestions

VuFind - Search Features

http://vufind.org/

Saves and Organizes Resources with tags

THANK YOU!