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Resource discovery: a new twist ?
Posted on October 30th, 2009 1 comment
Previously we have seen two different solutions to the problem of Resource Discovery: 1) pre-built ‘connectors’ built to allow a federated search across our electronic resources and 2) a discovery tool that uses metadata that is pre-indexed from the publishers, and also incorporates our local catalogue data. Exlibris say that ideally we would need both solutions; Serials Solutions say that we can run 2) without the need for 1).I thought the demo from EBSCO last week was interesting as their comments were made from the position of a subscription agent . They cast doubt on publishers’ willingness to open up their data for harvesting – and said that libraries would always need both solutions in place.
What will Innovative say when they come and see us on the 6th November?



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