LIS 663 Basic Database Searching

Resource Discovery

Session 10.

Dr. Péter Jacsó

Fall 2015

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Jacsó

The weakest point of the UH Library System

Expensive databases, publisher's archives remain

undiscovered

Where should I start?

Give me a search cell on the home page

MultiSearching, MetaSearching, PolySearching, Federated

Searching

Primo Resource Discovery Service is not really primo, very

selective coverage of the subscribed databases of UH

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Jacsó

The weakest point of the UH Library System

Expensive databases, publisher's archives remain

undiscovered

Where should I start?

Give me a search cell on the home page

MultiSearching, MetaSearching, PolySearching, Federated

Searching

Primo Resource Discovery Service is not really primo, very

selective coverage of DBs but improved in Fall 2015

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Jacsó

Broadcasting simple queries to many databases

The Tower of Babel syndrome

Displaying the top 10-20 records

Merging and de-duplicating the result sets

Keeping the best (most informative, best formatted ) version in

case of duplicates/triplicates

Jacsó

A PolySearch from Yours Truly

Jacsó