MOBIUS Annual Conference | June 8, 2011Alaina Culbertson & Emily Scharf

But what about federated search?

Features of discovery services

Demos

Summon Ebsco Discovery Service

WorldCat Local

Growing fast, over 60 university implementations this summer

Few resources from non-Ebsco databases

Tends to change library work-flow at first

Used by Mizzou, UMKC, UCM

Familiar EBSCOhost interface

Search Libraries Worldwide or just your library or consortium

Log-in delayed until article retrieval

Branded for your university/library

Familiar WorldCat interface

Many facets on the side to narrow the search

Federated searching integrated

Not as many limiters (no full-text or scholarly yet)

Features

Discovery upsides –

streamlined

services

Other discovery & upcoming services

Poll Everywhere

• Placeholder slide for polleverywhere.com audience poll

Conclusions

Thanks!

Alaina CulbertsonSaint Louis University Omer Poos Law Library Access Services aculber1@slu.edu

Emily ScharfWebster University LibraryInstruction and Liaison Servicesemilyscharf99@webster.edu

Disclaimer: We are in no way being compensated by the vendors or companies mentioned in this presentation.

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