2016-03-24 / 1 Comment on Restricted search collections in OneSearch
The following list of vendors restricts access to their collections (even to just the metadata, the information that is displayed in the search results) unless the user is on-campus or signed into OneSearch: ProQuest Scopus Web of Science ArtStor MLA Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) RMIT Publishing American Geoscience Institute Henrietta Szold Institute Index to […]
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2016-03-01 / 1 Comment on Popular OneSearch Searches: February 2016
The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 02/01/2016 and 02/29/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at that library: ellis island (205) interpersonal spacing (136) washington state (120) phillips “urban social work” (119) “code switching” (78) “social […]
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2016-02-01 / 3 Comments on Popular OneSearch searches in 2015
The year 2015 marked the first full calendar year during which we had our discovery system, OneSearch, up and running across the CUNY libraries. It was a big year, with over 3.7 million searches performed across the University! If you’re curious about the types of searches performed in an individual campus’s instance of OneSearch, you […]
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2016-01-28 / Leave a comment
In an earlier blog post, we discussed the structure of OneSearch’s metadata, aka PNX. (See: Behind OneSearch: Part 1 – Internal Records (PNX).) If you’ve wondered exactly which MARC fields are being used to create each of those PNX fields, we’ve got good news for you! We extracted the data and are making it available for your review. […]
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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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