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What to Do When an OLS Managed Service is Not Available
In the event that any of the services OLS provides is not available—and you’ve not received any specific announcements from OLS or CIS—please check the OLS Systems Status page that, at a glance, will tell you if a service is running or not. There will be cases when a service indicator shows green (available) but […]
The Current State of E-Resource Usage Data in Libraries
Here’s an informative and sobering assessment of employing COUNTER (via SUSHI or not) stats for accurately measuring cost per use at the platform/database/journal level… It’s not a pretty picture. Welker, J. (2012). Counting on COUNTER: The current state of e-resource usage data in libraries. Computers in Libraries, 32(9). Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov12/Welker–Counting-on-COUNTER.shtml. Thanks to Roland for […]
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 […]
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
