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1 Search. Discover. Share. Stefania Saccarola (Librarian) Nicola Tonon (IT Officer)

2 Discovery EIUC BETWEEN OPEN SOURCE AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS

3 A SMALL AND UNIQUE INSTITUTION IN AN INTERNATIONAL AND WIDE CONTEXT RESEARCHERS( EUROPEAN( UNION( 41(EUROPEAN( UNIVERSITIES( PROFESSIONAL% INTERNATIONAL( PARTNERSHIP( SCHOLARS( LOCAL( PARTNERSHIP( STUDENTS( ALUMNI( EIUC% REGIONAL(HR( MASTER S( GLOBAL% CAMPUS% MASTERS % PROGRAMMES% E.MA( HUMAN( RIGHTS( VILLAGE( VENICE( SCHOOL(OF(HR( VENICE( ACADEMY(OF( HR( BGM( (Académie( d èté)( EP(STUDIES( ADVANCED( TRAININGS(

4 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

5 THE IDEA: A SINGLE SEARCH BOX FOR ALL THE RESOURCES HOW: WHY: DISCOVERY TOOL FEDERATED SEARCH LINK RESOLVER IMPROVED USABILITY SIMPLIFIED RESEARCH FASTER ACCESS AMORTIZE EXPENSES

6 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

7 USEFULNESS WHO WE MET Open Source THOSE TOOLS COULD BE USEFUL FOR THIS KIND OF INSTITUTION BY: improving COMMUNICATION SKILLS being INNOVATIVE paying in terms of IMAGE

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

9 Summon SerialsSolutions WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES GOOGLE FOR LIBRARIES + SUMMON INDEX (REPOSITORY) LINK (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

10 Summon SerialsSolutions INTUITIVE - EASY TO USE TOO EASY FLEXIBLE - CUSTOMIZABLE LARGE, AVAILABLE FOR FREE REPOSITORY CONTENT RELIABLE - EXPERIENCE GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN COSTS AND BENEFITS LACK OF FURTHER RESPONSE AND SUPPORT NO AUTONOMY UNFOCUSED SEARCH ENGINE UNCLEAR RANKING STRATEGY NO DEMO

11 ExLibris Primo ONE-STOP SOLUTION FOR DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY EXPERIENCE + PRIMO CENTRAL (REPOSITORY) + SFX (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER) + bx (usage-based services)

12 ExLibris Primo 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

13 EBSCO Discovery Service THE COMPLETE DISCOVERY SOLUTION + EBSCOhost Databases (REPOSITORY) + EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) + EBSCO A-to-Z (REPOSITORY) + EBSCO LinkSource (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

14 EBSCO Discovery Service 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

15 Swetswise Searcher - Deep Web Technology WHO WE MET THE GOOGLE OF FEDERATED SEARCH + SWETSWISE ONLINE CONTENT & TITLE BANK (REPOSITORY) + SWETSWISE LINKER (OpenURL LINK RESOLVER)

16 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)

17 THE OPEN SOURCE CHANCE PROS SUSTAINABILITY INDEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY INNOVATIVE APPROACH IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS OF INVOLVED STAFF HUMAN RIGHTS RELEVANCE

18 THE OPEN WHO SOURCE WE METCHANCE CONS IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES HUMAN RESOURCES DEPENDENT LESS REFINED FINAL PRODUCT

19 Catalog Records Locally Cached Journals Digital Library Items Institutional Repository Institutional Bibliography Other Library Collections and Resources VuFind THE LIBRARY OPAC MEETS WEB 2.0

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

21 VuFind - Features Search with Faceted Results Author Biographies "More Like This" Resource Suggestions Save Resources to Organized Lists Internationalization

22 VuFind - How Does it Work?

23 VuFind - Apache 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

24 VuFind - Implementation Requirements: Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later ( or later recommended) PHP 5.2.x Smarty MySQL 4.1 or later Java J2SE JDK 1.4 or later Documentation: Installation Getting Records out of your ILS Importing and Managing Records Configuration and Customization Performance Security Search Engine Optimization

25 VuFind - Search Features Easily defines your own Custom Searches

26 VuFind - Search Features Search with Faceted Results

27 VuFind - Search Features Browses by call number, tags, language, subject...

28 VuFind - Search Features Resource suggestions

29 VuFind - Search Features Saves and Organizes Resources with tags

30 THANK YOU!

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