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OneSearch | Highlights of May 2019 update
On Sunday, June 2, 2019, our instance of OneSearch was updated to the latest service pack release of the underlying discovery software. Some notable highlights of this release include: Contextual relationships The vendor, Ex Libris, has started building a graph database as part of their Central Discovery Index (CDI) project that contains relationships between items. […]
New workflow for OneSearch bug reports
When we released the new UI in OneSearch, we implemented a “bug report” feature to allow users to alert us to any problems they encounter while using the discovery platform. Since its implementation on 8/27/17, we have fielded approximately 917 of these reports—that’s about 10-11 reports a week. This is becoming burdensome for OLS to […]
Highlights of recent OneSearch update
On Sunday, August 27, 2017, our instance of OneSearch was updated to the latest service pack release of the underlying discovery software. This was a major update and includes many new or updated features: Email Security Improvements: Due to a security flaw discovered with the “Email” functionality in the system over the summer, the vendor […]
See a problem in OneSearch? Report it!
Along with the roll-out of the new OneSearch user interface, the Office of Library Services has also introduced a new feature to OneSearch: Below the “Send to” options in the full display of each record is an area that reads: See something that doesn’t look right? Report it! By clicking on “Report it,” you will […]
Missing ebrary titles
The Office of Library Services has recently seen an uptick in reported problems with ebrary titles showing up in the CUNY Catalog and not showing up in OneSearch. We have been in communication with the vendors (ebrary and Ex Libris) and think we have identified the problem. In a nutshell, for subscribing to ebrary Academic […]
