Discovery: Making the Complicated EasyCourtney McGoughGALILEO Support ServicesGIL Users Group Meeting 2014

Outline• Background• What is discovery?• What’s in discovery?• Customization/localization options• Instruction Tips

Discover GALILEO

Discover GALILEO: Information Central http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/discover_galileo_information/

Discover GALILEO:A Little History• Live on October 1, 2012• Digital Library of Georgia and Civil Rights Digital Library

included• GIL catalogs (except for consolidating institutions) loaded by

May 2013• GIL catalogs for consolidated institutions loaded July and

November of 2013• Localizations starting in July 2013 and still in progress

What is discovery?

EBSCO collections

MARC records from your catalog

Citations from publishers – Wiley, Sage, Springer, Elsevier, T&F, etc.

Collections from a vendor or “databases”(Literature Resource Center, JSTOR Arts and Sciences, etc.)

Unified Index

What’s in discovery?

It’s complicated!

What’s in discovery?GIL Catalogs• GIL staff worked with GALILEO staff and EBSCO to load your

catalogs• Nightly updates (changes may take 48 hours)

What’s in discovery?GIL Catalogs

What’s in discovery?Citations with Links to Full Text

What’s in discovery?Open Access

What’s in discovery?Digital Library of Georgia

What’s in discovery?Civil Rights Digital Library

What’s in discovery?Limiters

What’s in discovery?Limiters

What’s in discovery?Search for ISSN

Customizing Discovery

Customization Options:Turn Resources ON or OFF

Customization Options: CustomLinks to Full Text

Customization Options:Links in the EBSCO Header

Customization Options: Widgets

Instruction Tips

Instruction tips• Good starting point for• Undergraduates, particularly for general studies courses• Literature reviews• Multidisciplinary searches; finding collaborators from another

discipline• Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty

may find a subject-specific database more helpful• Opportunity to teach evaluating sources and narrowing search

results• Known item searching - use quotation marks for phrases or

titles• My EBSCOhost Folder

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