“What am I searching?” Optimizing the HOLLIS+ Articles tab

May 18, 2015

Sponsored by the Search & Discovery Initiative Education Subcommittee

What is the HOLLIS+ Articles tab (and how does it work?) “Lighting round” demos from:

Boston College Boston University Northeastern University University of Notre Dame

Open discussion and questions

Today’s agenda:

Slides for this event are posted here:

https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/oQPVCQ Or go to wiki.harvard.edu and search for: What am I searching

The user

HOLLIS+

Primo Central Index (“Articles” tab)

Publisher data

A&I data

Open access data Local data

(“HOLLIS” tab)

VIA

OASIS

Aleph

Primo Central Index (PCI)

Journal articles, book chapters, e-books, newspaper

articles, images, digital objects, open source content,

and more

over 900,000,000 records

aggregators: Gale Cengage, ProQuest, etc.

publishers: Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, etc.

open source: HathiTrust, DOAJ, Medline, etc.

A&I services: MLA, LLBA, PsycINFO, etc.

Content of Primo Central Index DOES NOT EQUAL Harvard e-resources

Gale, ProQuest, MLA, Oxford Reference, Elsevier, Wiley, Web of Science, Nature, JSTOR, HathiTrust, etc.

ASP, Oxford Reference, LexisNexis, JSTOR, Elsevier, Nature, etc.

PCI metadata sources

Harvard subscriptions

How it works: Primo checks our e-resource holdings to determine whether or not to display “view online” link:

When linking out to full-text, Harvard’s subscription source is often different from the PCI record source:

PCI metadata: not in our control

The back end of PCI – activating resources

Are all Harvard’s databases in PCI? No. Most of our database providers also supply records to PCI – but some do not. For instance, many EBSCO databases are not in PCI. This does not mean that EBSCO content is not in PCI: As we saw earlier, the metadata could come directly from the journal publisher (Taylor & Francis) but link out to one of our EBSCO databases (Business Source Complete):

For more info, see: https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/zYhLC

Why are there so many duplicate records in PCI? Because the same content is being provided from different sources.

PCI does “FRBR-ize,” but only for exact duplicates.

Demo of E-books in PCI: https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/TQC4Cg

Resources These slides:

https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/oQPVCQ Sources of PCI content, including complete list of

deactivated sources: https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/eoBLC

HOLLIS+ FAQs: https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/t4J5C

Information about PCI content under investigation, including EBSCO databases: https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/zYhLC