Choosing and implementing a discovery tool at Hebrew University Edith Falk, Chief Librarian Hebrew University of Jerusalem LIBER CONFERENCE, 2015.

Choosing and implementing a discovery tool at Hebrew University

Edith Falk, Chief LibrarianHebrew University of JerusalemLIBER CONFERENCE, 2015

Who are we?

Higher Education in Israel

• 8 universities• ~ 60 colleges

HUJI The Hebrew University was

founded in 1918 by visionaries including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann.

It was opened on April 1, 1925

Today, it is located on three campuses in Jerusalem and a fourth in Rehovot

HUJI

HUJI

•23,000 students

HUJI

•Nearly 40% of all civilian scientific research in

Israel is conducted at the Hebrew University.

About 3,800 research projects are in progress

at the University, and 1,500 new projects are

started each year.

HUJI

HUJI

Academic Ranking of World Universities

Our Libraries

The Library Authority• Humanities, Social

Sciences & Business Library

• Law Library• Education and

Social Work Library• Archaeology Library

• Science Library• Mathematics and

Computer Science Library• The Albert

Einstein Archive

• Medical Library• Agriculture Library

Mt Scopus Campus

Jerusalem

E. Safra Campus

Jerusalem

Ein Karem Campus

Jerusalem

Rehovot CampusRehovot

Disappearing Libraries?

• The Future of Academic Libraries: Disappearing Libraries and Invisible Librarians :the impact of the print to digital transformation on library structure, services and functions over the next 10 years." ALA 2006

• 90 % of our budget goes to E-resources

Changing Learning Habits

Today’s students are:• Digital • Mobile • Independent • Social • Participatory

Their learning spaces must provide:• Flexibility• Sensory stimulation.. • Technology support. • Decenteredness• social and participatory opportunities.• comfort

Before

After

Studying alone

Or together

Classical or very modern

Comfortable?

Cultural Events

Our Mission

<< The Hebrew University Library Authority provides the institution researchers, teachers and students with all their needs in accessing sources of information, knowledge and data and equip them with the tools, assistance, environmental and technological conditions necessary for the use of these sources . All this , while adapting to relevant changes in the academic, social, legal and technological environment, and achieving maximum economic efficiency.>>

Why not

• Library Survey 2015, Faculty and Ph.D. students

• What is your starting point when you look for material?

• 36% answered Google or Google Scholar

• It is free• It is user friendly• It includes scientific resources

and even “gray” literature• It allows simultaneous search in

many resources• It allows saving in a private e-

shelf and creating a bibliography• It shows citations and other

parameters• It searches the full text• It links to the catalog of your

local library

Why not It is difficult to determine with 100%

accuracy all that Google Scholar searches.

• Google cannot:– Sort/search by disciplinary field– Browse by title– Limit search results– Search the deep web

• There are not enough possibilities to deal with the results

• No access to the indexing of thedatabases.• No access to the algorithm

20 Services Google Thinks Are More Important Than Google Scholar

What are we looking for?• A Google-like tool, simple

and efficient• A tool that allows searching

as many resources as possible, while allowing limiting the searches to resources accessible to library patrons

• A tool that allows dealing with the list of searches in as many ways as possible

What do we need?

• A discovery layer for the catalogue

• A discovery tool at article level

Topical Search Dominates

A Discovery Tool

A Central Index

A Discovery Layer

What is a discovery tool?

The Central Index• The collection of pre-harvested

and processed metadata and full text that comprises the searchable content of a WSD service: Central indexes typically include full text and citations from publishers; full text and metadata from open source collections; full text, abstracting, and indexing from aggregators and subscription databases; and MARC from library catalogs; also called the base index, unified index, or foundation index.

Evaluating the Central Index

• parameters:– scope of the content,– item types,– inclusion of the full text – richness of the

metadata. • The central index has to fit

the library collections on one hand and the type of users of the library on the other hand.

• Some databases are not included in any WSD (for example: Scifinder)

• Some databases are included in some WSD and not in others (especially Proquest and Ebsco)

• Even when a WSD vendor does not include a database, it may have basic, citation-level metadata for journal titles by a certain publisher (Elsevier or Springer).

The Discovery Layer

•Single search across the central index

•Fast response time •Relevancy-ranked results list •Facets, sort, and other tools

for refining and using the results

•Connections to full text via direct links and OpenURL

•End-user accounts and features

Our solution

• New interface for the catalogue• Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool

will be displayed side by side• Choosing a discovery tool• Implementation

New interface for the catalogue

• Primo + Primo Central, by Ex-Libris• Summons, by Proquest• Discovery, by Ebsco

Our solution

• New interface for the catalogue• Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool

will be displayed side by side• Choosing a discovery tool• Implementation

Combined Search

Catalogue Search Article Search

Our solution

• New interface for the catalogue• Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool

will be displayed side by side• Choosing a discovery tool

1. Installing three discovery tools on our server2. Checking of the three tools 3. Choosing the best tools

• Implementation

The survey

The survey• 10 searches on each tool• Grade each tool from 5 to 1, based on the relevance of the results and the possibilities of

dealing with the list of results• After all the searches, grade the UI

•a fin des recherches, noter l’interface.

The survey

• 31 reference librarians• 257 searches• EDS received the best results for relevance

and for dealing with the lists of results• UI: almost the same for all three tools

Our solution

• New interface for the catalogue• Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool

will be displayed side by side• Choosing a discovery tool• Implementation

EDS + VUFIND=HUFind

Module preparation and installation

• The EDS module for Vufind adds the EBSCO tool search capabilities to the existing VUFind installation

• The module is prepared by EBSCO and sent to the library with detailed instructions..

Q.A.

Q.A.

Verification et corrections

The Final ResultThe Final results

Conclusion

StatisticsVuFind + EDS

StatisticsEBSCO

• Quality of metadata• Relevance of results• Convenient access to full text• Easy manipulation of result

lists• Convenient UI• Good support• Interoperability with other

systems• Constant development• User friendly

Some databases are still missing

More convenient reports interface

More permissions to admin

Thank You

for your attention

Edith Falk