Oxford Discoverability Panel ALA 2011 New Orleans
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Discovery tools & OUP Content
Claremont Colleges Library
Oxford Discoverability PanelALA New OrleansSunday June 26, [email protected]
The one stop shop
• User research is evolving toward fewer points of entry
• Library discovery tools are an alternative one stop shop answer that provide a point of entry to a broader array of scholarly content
• But not so much with reference… – A core area for Oxford
Aspect Google Scholar Summon Functionality
Simple. Easy. Fast. ✔ ✔
Limit to available full text ✔
Refine results by facet -Content type, Subject, Date ✔
Mouseover for abstract/TOC ✔
Content
Searches all library resources Not nearly all Almost allComprehensiveness ??? > 500 million records
Open access content More Some
Export
Folder/Export multiple records ✔
Format citations in common styles ✔
Export to citation manager ✔ ✔
Claremont Colleges Libraryhttp://claremont.summon.serialssolutions.com/ Try it out!
A Google alternative?What’s missing?
…of a book…
Claremont Colleges Library
Definitions!
E-Reference…
Does Oxford have them? Yes, but you have to go to the ORO silo…
But beyond reference…does Google (books) send users to Oxford content?
• Discovering Oxford content in Google Books– The library catalog is NOT the first place users will
look– In Google Books, the Oxford link encourages
individual purchase, but…– “Find in a library” can take users to library
content… if they find a functional link
Claremont Colleges Library…of a book…
How are books discovered?
Claremont Colleges Library…get a book…
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