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Unified Discovery: What's your ideal search interface?

Unified Discovery: What's your ideal search interface?. Online Northwest 2010 Stefanie Buck Jane Nichols Oregon State University Libraries. “Why is Google so easy and the library so hard?”.

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Unified Discovery: What's your ideal search interface?

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  1. Unified Discovery: What's your ideal search interface? Online Northwest 2010 Stefanie Buck Jane NicholsOregon State University Libraries

  2. “Why is Google so easy and the library so hard?” Tenopir, C. (2009). Visualize the perfect search. Library Journal, (4), Retrieved from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6639354.html?nid=3306

  3. New Developments Literature Gap

  4. No, we will stick with Google Scholar. Comments Strengths= more information in one place for patrons Weaknesses=clarity & coherence of results We used MetaFind (now ResearchPro) and tested against Google Scholar (connected to our databases) and found Google Scholar results to be superior. I really don't see the need for any of the above when we can use Google Scholar (connected to our holdings and subscriptions) Maybe we need to go back to the drawing board…

  5. Define Terms Federated search Parallel searching Common user interface software products Metabase Meta-search Broadcast searching Portal Integrated searching Aggregated search results Polysearching Simultaneous searching Cross-database searching

  6. Federated Search Database Database Database Database Vendor prohibitionNo translatorLimit searches/seats Authentication Authentication Authentication Searches live Library API Repository Index Search Federator User Request Repository Library API Results

  7. Unified Search Index Content Content Content Repository Vendors and Publishers No vendor relationshipLimit searches Index Index User Request Database Index No publisher/aggregator agreement Federated Library API Results

  8. Unified Discovery Services

  9. Participatory Design Foster and Gibbons. Studying Students:The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Association of College and Research Libraries. Chicago, 2007, p. 34.

  10. Back to the Drawing Board • Form small groups • Passing out materials • IRB form-sign if you want

  11. Book cover My Library Sort by Citation information Database Location Citation & Link to Google Scholar Peer-reviewed

  12. Debrief • What did you create? • Why?

  13. Thanks! Stefanie Buck stefanie.buck@oregonstate.edu Jane Nichols jane.nichols@oregonstate.edu

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