Discovery tools & OUP Content

Claremont Colleges Library

Oxford Discoverability PanelALA New OrleansSunday June 26, 2011jason.price@cuc.claremont.edu

The one stop shop

• User research is evolving toward fewer points of entry

• Library discovery tools are an alternative one stop shop answer that provide a point of entry to a broader array of scholarly content

• But not so much with reference… – A core area for Oxford

Aspect Google Scholar Summon Functionality

Simple. Easy. Fast. ✔ ✔

Limit to available full text ✔

Refine results by facet -Content type, Subject, Date ✔

Mouseover for abstract/TOC ✔

Content

Searches all library resources Not nearly all Almost allComprehensiveness ??? > 500 million records

Open access content More Some

Export

Folder/Export multiple records ✔

Format citations in common styles ✔

Export to citation manager ✔ ✔

Claremont Colleges Libraryhttp://claremont.summon.serialssolutions.com/ Try it out!

A Google alternative?What’s missing?

…of a book…

Claremont Colleges Library

Definitions!

E-Reference…

Does Oxford have them? Yes, but you have to go to the ORO silo…

But beyond reference…does Google (books) send users to Oxford content?

• Discovering Oxford content in Google Books– The library catalog is NOT the first place users will

look– In Google Books, the Oxford link encourages

individual purchase, but…– “Find in a library” can take users to library

content… if they find a functional link

Claremont Colleges Library…of a book…

How are books discovered?

Claremont Colleges Library…get a book…

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