Bridges from the catalog to Discovery

System & Process Changes in the Move to EBSCO Discovery Service

Angela FlennerCollege of Charleston

SIUG 2014

TopicsOCatalog exportOWebBridge changesORecord links between Classic Catalog & Discovery

Catalog exportO Bi-weeklyO Export entire catalog, with exception

of suppressed recordsO Export in batches of 250,000-

300,000 recordsO Would like to do updates-only, but

currently have no way of identifying deletions

O SFTP to EBSCO due to campus IT restrictions

WebBridge changesO Previously, only using WebBridge for articlesO EDS brings up book citationsO Despite these books existing our catalog,

WebBridge did not link them because it was only configured to search our catalog for ISSN.

O Also added option to search PASCAL (consortial) sharing catalog. Did not exist before because articles are not share-able in PASCAL.

Before:

After:

New field selector: ISBN

New resource definitions - catalog

New resource definitions - PASCAL

Category priority:

Link to catalog record in Discovery

O Formerly had direct link to EncoreO Javascript lookup uses bib record number to

match on EDS accession numberO Comes after Permalink in the botlogo.html fileO Also needs wwwoptions change:

O ICON_RECORDLINK= <div class="bibRecordLink"><a href="%s" id="recordnum"><strong>Permalink</strong></a></div><div class="bibRecordLink"><span id="edsLink"></span></div>

Javascript in botlogo.html file

O script type="text/javascript"> <!-- f (!document.getElementById("recordnum")) {} else{ // Get record number eg b number var ref = document.getElementById("recordnum").getAttribute("href"); var str = ref.indexOf("=") var recno = ref.substr(str+1,8); var edsLink = '<strong><a href="http://nuncio.cofc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00993a&AN=ccl.'+recno+'" target="_blank">View in Discovery</a></strong> <img src="/screens/new_window_icon.gif" alt="new window icon" />'; // Put link to Discovery record on record page document.getElementById("edsLink").innerHTML = edsLink; } //--></script>

http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b2339490~S12

Other discussion topicsO Automating catalog exports?O Making decisions about what MARC

records to load into the catalog, if they are already available in EDS (ie, Biblioboard)