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Discovery services in special libraries – An IISR experience

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Title Discovery services in special libraries – An IISR experience
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Creator Sushamadevi C K, Jayarajan K, Ummu Habeeba P P, Sreeja K P and Santhosh J Eapen
 
Subject Discovery service, consortia, EDS, usage study, information retrieval, digital library
 
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Discovery tools are emerging trend in new generation libraries. Discovery Service provides researchers with access to an institution's entire collection via a single entry point. These tools offer library users the ability to concurrently search the library catalogue and subscribed journals, consortia journals, institutional repository and other databases. This tool with its customization and indexing options aggregate the metadata for the effective information retrieval on a single platform. In addition it displays a composite result for each item, as well as integrating records for print holdings and other content types. The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, a constituent body of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is a major Institute devoted to research on spices. The institute library, National Informatics Centre on Spices consists of a digital library wing (SpicE-library) incorporating the advancements in ICT and IT applications. Though the SpicE-Library website act as a gateway to all the resources available in the library, it could not fulfil the expectations of the researchers, since they were unable search all the databases simultaneously. In order to cater their needs
EBSCO discovery service was initialised during 2013. In this paper discuss issues involved in customizing the EDS for special library and usage study and its impact. Usability test was conducted among different categories of researchers namely Scientists, Research Fellows and Ph.D. scholars using questionnaire. It was found that the researchers, especially the scientists are very much satisfied. The study of users' statistics using CeRA (Consortium of e-Resources in Agriculture) consortium data revealed that there is 36.6 % increase in users after introducing the Discovery tool. A comparative study of the information retrieval efficiency of three databases CABI, CeRA and EDS with same group of key words showed that there was an average of 6- 7
are best met by discovery tools as they integrate all the information resources to a single window.
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Date 2021-08-11T08:18:22Z
2021-08-11T08:18:22Z
2014-09-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Sushamadevi C K, Jayarajan K, Ummu Habeeba P P, Sreeja K P and Santhosh J Eapen 2014. Discovery services in special libraries – An IISR experience. International Journal of Information Sources and Services 1: 47-51.
2349-428X
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/54656
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Geetanjali