2017-02-21 / Leave a comment
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 […]
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2016-01-26 / 1 Comment on OneSearch, E-Resources, and Dedup
Over the winter break, OLS applied a major improvement to OneSearch results: we “de-deduped” many e-resource records! The Problem As OneSearch was initially configured, it applied its dedup process to all records equally, whether they were print or electronic. What is dedup? The dedup process allows OneSearch to present a single result when the identical resource is held by multiple […]
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2015-11-11 / Leave a comment
Last week’s post about link checking describes one of the ways that OLS is working on improving access to e-resources via OneSearch. Another area of work regards e-resource records batchloaded to Aleph which are also available via the Primo Central Index (PCI). Because of the large number of duplicate records coming from Aleph, there are often problems determining availability correctly for […]
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2015-11-06 / Leave a comment
The Office of Library Services is pleased to report that we have completed a thorough review of 856 (URL) fields in our catalog. On Thursday, November 5, we emailed the Cataloging Committee members explaining how to access their school’s error list in the Aleph task manager and providing details about the results. Project Goals a school-specific report […]
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2015-09-08 / 1 Comment on Primo: Palgrave Connect
The CUNY-wide licensed ebook titles of the Palgrave Connect collection are now active in SFX and can be discovered in Primo. In SFX, 6,491 portfolios are active for all of CUNY in the PALGRAVE_CONNECT_EBOOKS_COMPLETE target.
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