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NFAIS One Day Workshop on Discovery Services Scheduled For September 30th
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NFAIS One Day Workshop on Discovery Services Date: Friday, September 30, 2011 Location: Philadelphia, PA (A Virtual Workshop Will Also Be Available) Discount: Both onsite and virtual registrations are available at a discount until September 16th. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of new information channels know as “discovery services.” Broadly defined as a link […]
Full Text is available free. No registration required. Author: Chris Keene Source: Serials From the Article: The new breed of resource discovery services is an evolutionary step forward in providing library users with a ‘one-stop shop’ where they can find information sources for their research. They provide a single search box that can search a […]
From a ProQuest News Release: Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products, today announced their intention that the full-text of SciVerse ScienceDirect content will be indexed within the Summon web-scale discovery service. Researchers will be able to search the full text of […]
University of California Will Use WorldCat Local As Next Gen Melvyl Infrastructure
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From a California Digital Library Blog Post by Ellen Meltzer: With the endorsement of the University Librarians, UCLA purchasing is now processing the paperwork to procure WorldCat Local (WCL) as the infrastructure for Next Generation Melvyl; once finished, Melvyl @ University of California will become UC’s official Melvyl discovery and access service. The decision was […]
From a National Archives (UK) Announcement: The Discovery service has been released in ‘beta’, or test form, and we are keen to get your feedback on how it can be improved. The new service enables you to filter search results by subject, date and series origin, as well as introducing map-based searching. [You can also browse […]
