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Discovery: Making the Complicated Easy. Courtney McGough GALILEO Support Services GIL Users Group Meeting 2014. Outline. Background What is discovery? What’s in discovery? Customization/localization options Instruction Tips. Discover GALILEO.
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Discovery: Making the Complicated Easy Courtney McGough GALILEO Support Services GIL Users Group Meeting 2014
Outline • Background • What is discovery? • What’s in discovery? • Customization/localization options • Instruction Tips
Discover GALILEO Discover GALILEO: Information Central http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/discover_galileo_information/
Discover GALILEO:A Little History • Live on October 1, 2012 • Digital Library of Georgia and Civil Rights Digital Library included • GIL catalogs (except for consolidating institutions) loaded by May 2013 • GIL catalogs for consolidated institutions loaded July and November of 2013 • Localizations starting in July 2013 and still in progress
What is discovery? Unified Index Citations from publishers – Wiley, Sage, Springer, Elsevier, T&F, etc. Collections from a vendor or “databases” (Literature Resource Center, JSTOR Arts and Sciences, etc.) MARC records from your catalog EBSCO collections
What’s in discovery? It’s complicated!
What’s in discovery?GIL Catalogs • GIL staff worked with GALILEO staff and EBSCO to load your catalogs • Nightly updates (changes may take 48 hours)
Instruction tips • Good starting point for • Undergraduates, particularly for general studies courses • Literature reviews • Multidisciplinary searches; finding collaborators from another discipline • Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty may find a subject-specific database more helpful • Opportunity to teach evaluating sources and narrowing search results • Known item searching - use quotation marks for phrases or titles • My EBSCOhost Folder
Get More Information Discover GALILEO: Information Central http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/discover_galileo_information/
Questions? Contact Us http://www.galileo.usg.edu/contact