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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 […]
Voting for new PCI collections
Our votes for additions to the PCI This past Friday we realized that the deadline for voting on new PCI collections (as part of the Ex Libris product enhancement voting cycle) was on Saturday, 3/21. Nancy Egan was kind enough to help me in determining quickly which collections might be useful to CUNY. Out of […]
Primo, PCI, and SFX
Primo, Primo Central Index, and SFX: How do they work together? Primo is a bit tricky to understand, since it uses data from two different sources: The Primo Central Index (usually referred to as “PCI“) and the holdings extract from our SFX holdings (Google Scholar extract). A Primo search first searches the PCI to obtain […]
Did a Human or a Computer Write This?
A shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz here
How-To | User-triggered error reporting in EZproxy
In March 2013, while we were redesigning the EZproxy login pages for the proxy servers that we manage at OLS, I decided to spruce it up a little bit and make it so that users can send error reports if they reach needhost.htm:
