[LIS-Forum] Web Scale Discovery Service - Library System report 2015

[nikesh]

Dear friends,

Please see the Excerpts about Web scale Discovery service appeared in
Library System Report 2015.

Read full report :
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/05/01/library-systems-report/

"Interest in discovery services continues to build among academic libraries
as they strive to optimize the impact of their investments in scholarly
electronic resources, in balance with their print collections.

*EBSCO reported 2,634 new subscriptions to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
and 8,246 total *installations. EDS finds use in academic libraries as well
as public, school, and special libraries.

Unlike other providers of index-based discovery services, EBSCO has not
developed its own resource management product but instead focuses on
integrating EDS with any ILS the library currently has in place.
Integration partnerships are in place with more than 30 ILS providers
globally. Examples include Encore Duet, an integration of EDS into
Innovative’s discovery product compatible with Sierra or Millennium, and
integration of EDS with SirsiDynix Enterprise. Work has recently been
completed to enable libraries using OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services
to apply EDS as the patron interface. Ex Libris and EBSCO remain at
loggerheads with regard to populating Primo Central with EBSCO content and
integrating EDS and Alma.

*Ex Libris made 88 new contracts for Primo in 2014, increasing its total
installations to 1,529. *This count includes those packaged with Alma as
well as those sold to libraries using it with other ILS products. Ex Libris
recently entered a partnership with ProQuest to index its content products
in Primo Central.

*ProQuest reported 195 new subscriptions to Summon, increasing its total to
697 installations.* In 2014, ProQuest announced the company had increased
the Summon index by 350 million records, or 16%, and added new features to
Summon 2.0, launched in 2013. ProQuest has also moved Summon from its own
data centers to the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS)."

Thanks

*Nikesh Narayanan *I E-System Librarian I

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
<http://www.kustar.ac.ae/>

PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Mobile : +971507097346

https://about.me/nikeshnarayanan

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