1. Choosing and implementing a discovery tool at Hebrew University
Edith Falk, Chief Librarian
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LIBER CONFERENCE, 2015

2. Who are we?

3. Higher Education in Israel
8 universities
~ 60 colleges

4. HUJI
The Hebrew University was founded in 1918 by visionaries including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann.
It was opened on April 1, 1925
Today, it is located on three campuses in Jerusalem and a fourth in Rehovot

5. HUJI

6. HUJI
23,000 students

7. HUJI
Nearly 40% of all civilian scientific research in Israel is conducted at the Hebrew University. About 3,800 research projects are in progress at the University, and 1,500 new projects are started each year.

8. HUJI

9. HUJI

10. Academic Ranking of World Universities

11. Our Libraries

12. E. Safra Campus Jerusalem
The Library Authority
Mt Scopus Campus
Jerusalem
Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Library
Law Library
Education and Social Work Library
Archaeology Library
E. Safra Campus Jerusalem
Science Library
Mathematics and Computer Science Library
The Albert Einstein Archive
Ein Karem Campus
Medical Library
Rehovot Campus
Rehovot
Agriculture Library

13. Disappearing Libraries?
The Future of Academic Libraries: Disappearing Libraries and Invisible Librarians :the impact of the print to digital transformation on library structure, services and functions over the next 10 years." ALA 2006
90 % of our budget goes to E-resources

14. Changing Learning Habits
Today’s students are:
Digital
Mobile
Independent
Social
Participatory
Their learning spaces must provide:
Flexibility
Sensory stimulation..
Technology support.
Decenteredness
social and participatory opportunities.
comfort

15. Before

16. After

17. Studying alone

18. Or together

19. Classical or very modern

20. Comfortable?

21. Cultural Events

22. Our Mission
<< The Hebrew University Library Authority provides the institution researchers, teachers and students with all their needs in accessing sources of information, knowledge and data and equip them with the tools, assistance, environmental and technological conditions necessary for the use of these sources .
All this , while adapting to relevant changes in the academic, social, legal and technological environment, and achieving maximum economic efficiency.>>

23. Why not Library Survey 2015, Faculty and Ph.D. students
What is your starting point when you look for material?
36% answered Google or Google Scholar
It is free
It is user friendly
It includes scientific resources and even “gray” literature
It allows simultaneous search in many resources
It allows saving in a private e-shelf and creating a bibliography
It shows citations and other parameters
It searches the full text
It links to the catalog of your local library

24. Why not
It is difficult to determine with 100% accuracy all that Google Scholar searches.
Google cannot:
Sort/search by disciplinary field
Browse by title
Limit search results
Search the deep web
There are not enough possibilities to deal with the results
No access to the indexing of the
databases.
No access to the algorithm

25. 20 Services Google Thinks Are More Important Than Google Scholar

26. What are we looking for? A Google-like tool, simple and efficient
A tool that allows searching as many resources as possible, while allowing limiting the searches to resources accessible to library patrons
A tool that allows dealing with the list of searches in as many ways as possible

27. A discovery layer for the catalogue A discovery tool at article level
What do we need?
A discovery layer for the catalogue
A discovery tool at article level

29. Topical Search Dominates

30. A Discovery Tool
A Central Index
A Discovery Layer

31. What is a discovery tool?

32. The Central Index
The collection of pre-harvested and processed metadata and full text that comprises the searchable content of a WSD service: Central indexes typically include full text and citations from publishers; full text and metadata from open source collections; full text, abstracting, and indexing from aggregators and subscription databases; and MARC from library catalogs; also called the base index, unified index, or foundation index.

33. Evaluating the Central Index
parameters:
scope of the content,
item types,
inclusion of the full text
richness of the metadata.
The central index has to fit the library collections on one hand and the type of users of the library on the other hand.
Some databases are not included in any WSD (for example: Scifinder)
Some databases are included in some WSD and not in others (especially Proquest and Ebsco)
Even when a WSD vendor does not include a database, it may have basic, citation-level metadata for journal titles by a certain publisher (Elsevier or Springer).

34. The Discovery Layer Single search across the central index
Fast response time
Relevancy-ranked results list
Facets, sort, and other tools for refining and using the results
Connections to full text via direct links and OpenURL
End-user accounts and features

35. Our solution New interface for the catalogue
Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side
Choosing a discovery tool
Implementation

36. New interface for the catalogue
Primo + Primo Central, by Ex-Libris
Summons, by Proquest
Discovery, by Ebsco

37. Our solution New interface for the catalogue
Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side
Choosing a discovery tool
Implementation

38. Combined Search
Catalogue Search
Article Search

39. Our solution New interface for the catalogue
Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side
Choosing a discovery tool
Installing three discovery tools on our server
Checking of the three tools
Choosing the best tools
Implementation

40. The survey

41. The survey 10 searches on each tool
Grade each tool from 5 to 1, based on the relevance of the results and the possibilities of dealing with the list of results
After all the searches, grade the UI
a fin des recherches, noter l’interface.

42. The survey 31 reference librarians 257 searches
EDS received the best results for relevance and for dealing with the lists of results
UI: almost the same for all three tools

43. Our solution New interface for the catalogue
Decision: The catalogue and the discovery tool will be displayed side by side
Choosing a discovery tool
Implementation

44. EDS + VUFIND= HUFind

45. Module preparation and installation
The EDS module for Vufind adds the EBSCO tool search capabilities to the existing VUFind installation
The module is prepared by EBSCO and sent to the library with detailed instructions..

46. Q.A.

47. Verification et corrections
Q.A.
Verification et corrections

48. The Final Result
The Final results

56. Conclusion

57. Statistics VuFind + EDS

58. Statistics EBSCO

59. Quality of metadata
Relevance of results
Convenient access to full text
Easy manipulation of result lists
Convenient UI
Good support
Interoperability with other systems
Constant development
User friendly
Some databases are still missing
More convenient reports interface
More permissions to admin

60. Thank You
for your attention
Edith Falk