Adwords plugin available
The Adwords plugin allows a library to add a small tile to the results page right above the results to provide quick links to other pages according to a predefined list of hotwords and matching URLs.
For example, students may enter things like “late fees” into a search box to find information about fines and fees for overdue items. With this plugin, you can present your users with an extra result that may take them out of the OneSearch interface and directly to the page they’re hoping to find:
The functionality is currently available in the CUNY-wide OneSearch as well as Baruch’s OneSearch instance. To see the plugin in action, search for the name of a database (such as JSTOR).
If you’d like to incorporate this functionality into your OneSearch instance, please consult the OLS Support Site. You will need to fill out a spreadsheet and submit a work order to the CUNY Service Desk.
CUNY Academic Works in OneSearch
Did you know that you can find and read the full text of CUNY Academic Works in OneSearch? The following example is in the CUNY OneSearch view, but you can do the same in any school’s view.
Perhaps you’re interested in Gentrification in New York City and want to see what CUNY has contributed.
On your search results page, go to the filter section at the left to find the Source/Collection filter (in the mobile view, it’s the Filter options link at the top of the results).
Click on the plus sign and there will be an option to filter for CUNY Academic Works. While we’re still growing, you probably need to click on Show more at the bottom of the collapsed Source/Collection list.*
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As I’m writing this, there are 3 results, all dissertations. Two can be opened in OneSearch on campus (off-campus, you can download them after logging in). The third is “embargoed.” That means that it has been blocked from publication online for a period of time. You can still read it, but until it is released online, you would need to get the print version from The Graduate Center library. Are you wondering, why are all the results from The Graduate Center? Right now, CUNY Academic Works contains works from The Graduate Center and from the CUNY Office of Library Services because these 2 were the first to start contributing. More schools are on the way and much more full text content will become available as those CUNY schools contribute their academic work. |
For more information about CUNY Academic Works, please go to http://academicworks.cuny.edu/about.html.
* If your search results ONLY contain CUNY Academic Works, then you won’t see the Collection filter.
Course reserves now available in OneSearch
We recently published all records in the CUN30 library of Aleph for inclusion in Primo. In layman’s terms: course reserve items are now available in OneSearch!
If you’ve ever tried to use the Course Reserve module in the CUNY Catalog, you’ll notice that this is a huge improvement over the old interface. Not only that but users can search a single institution’s reserve collection! (You could not search just, say, the Baruch reserves in the past.) Students who search for a generic term, such as “calculus,” will only see records at their institution that are held on reserve. Furthermore, the facets on the left-hand side will let them whittle it down even further, giving them the option to limit their results to a particular course, instructor, department, or semester.
The reserves tab differs only slightly from the regular “OneSearch” tab:
- We have suppressed the “Request” button so users are not led to believe they can place holds or CLICS requests on items held on reserve.
- The “Off campus?” message is hidden since the records come only from the catalog and not from Primo Central or another restricted source.
Further customization options of the display of the reserves tab will be discussed at the upcoming Public Services Committee meeting on April 16th.
This is an opt-in feature so please open a work order with the CUNY Service Desk (service.desk@cuny.edu) to let OLS know that you want a new tab in your OneSearch view that will contain only your course reserve records.
GVRL e-books activated in SFX
I just received KBART reports for all our schools for Gale’s Virtual Reference Library. The activation in SFX just completed and here are the numbers of entries for which the dataloader script found a match, by institute (location):
- 57: 2,230
- BB: 2,639
- BC: 2,289
- BM: 2,487
- BX: 2,284
- CC: 2,264
- CL: 2,264
- GC: 2,264
- GJ: 2,264
- HC: 2,285
- HO: 2.332
- JJ: 2,284
- KB: 2,384
- LE: 2,275
- LG: 2,431
- ME: 2,365
- NC: 2,230
- NY: 2,507
- QB: 2,395
- QC: 2,266
- SI: 2,460
- YC: 2,266
In addition I learned that the titles from Scribner Writers Online and Twayne’s Authors Online [XLS] were also included in the KBART report and they are also part of the GALEGROUP_DB_VIRTUAL_REFERENCE_LIBRARY target. So any of the title we license from these two collections would have been activated as well.
While these titles are active in SFX now, they won’t be updated in OneSearch until new Google Scholar holdings are created. I will take care of this by Friday.
Thanks,
Roland
Gale/Oxford Reference Collection Indexing Updates in the PCI
From Ex Libris:
We are planning to index Oxford Reference Online during the coming months and it is now under our analysis. Regarding Gale Virtual Reference library (GVRL), the reason we indexed MARC records for GVRL instead of more granular level records is because the schema Gale had provided us for GVRL was not compatible with Primo Central (PCI). We’ve tried over the years to get Gale to provide us with another, more compatible, schema but were unsuccessful. We are now trying this again and if successful, we will update the collection and announce it to our Primo customers.
The GVRL/Oxford indexing in other discovery services including Summon and EDS is article-level, so we expect Ex Libris to deliver here. The onus is on them to come up with a solution, and they are working on it. Indexing the Oxford content appears to be on-track after talking to some additional folks at Ex Libris. They’re aware that we deem this a big priority.
OLS will keep tabs on these developments. Gale can also confirm with us how things are progressing as well, so we have two avenues to get information.