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Joint Information Systems Committee
The role of discovery tools
in the era of full-text
Alison McNab & Dr Philip Pothen
JISC
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Outline
• A definition
• Discovery tools in the JISC Collections
• Different roles of discovery tools and full•
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text resources
Meeting information needs & maximising
budgets
Role of the JISC
–facilitating the provision of discovery tools
for UK higher & further education
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Discovery tools: a definition
• Indexing and abstracting services
• Internet catalogues / gateways
• Specialist tools (images, archives etc)
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JISC Collecting Areas
• Discovery Tools
• eBooks
• Geospatial
• Images
• Journals
• Learning materials
• Moving Pictures and Sound
• Primary Research Data
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Discovery tools in JISC Collections
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Online services…then and now
• Growth of full-text electronic sources
• Discovery tools
–seeking to add value
• Full-text
–the one-stop shop?
• User expectations
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Meeting information needs
• User demand for primary sources
–JUSTEIS survey work
• Lack of understanding of role of discovery
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tools
Information skills / literacy
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Discovery tools
• Adding value
–holdings information
–linking technologies
–document delivery options
–alerting facilities
• Developing information skills
–Boolean operators
–relevancy
–search strategies
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Retooling budgets?
• Different roles of discovery tools and full•
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•
text resources
Most full-text sources incorporate some
form of search tool
Balancing spending
–full-text vs discovery tools
–full-text e-journals vs document delivery
Measuring use of subscription services
–usage statistics
–search logs
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Role of JISC
• Content:
–collections of information resources
–selected for quality and relevance
• Information environment:
–the online space within which these
collections are accessed
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Information Environment Strategy
• £32m over the next four years
• Four major strands
– Content Submissions Mechanisms
– Portals and Fusion Services
– Service Provider Development Programme
– Shared Services Programme
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Content Submissions Mechanism
• Community resources
– Disclosure
– Discovery
– Deposit
– Exchange
• FAIR
• X4L
• Open Source Focus
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Portals
• Subject Portals
– RDN hubs
• Data types
– Images
– Moving pictures and sound
– Geospatial
• Domain or Community of Interest-based
–Learning and Teaching portal
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Other strands
• Service Provider Development Programme
• Evaluation
• Presentation
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Beyond the DNER
• Implementation of the DNER vision
• JISC restructuring
• Greater integration and coherence in JISC
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presentation
User-focussed
… Subject Portfolios
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Portfolios
• Across JISC collection and presentation
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activities
Descriptive mechanism rather than a
“brand”
Ties in with Information Environment
activities
… and with further technical developments
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Further information
• Alison McNab
[email protected]
• Philip Pothen
[email protected]
http://www.jisc.ac.uk
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