Panel Discussion at Harvard University Lamont Library, May 18th, 2015. Presentation on Ex Libris Primo Central Index.

1. “What am I searching?”
Optimizing the HOLLIS+ Articles tab
May 18, 2015
Sponsored by the Search & Discovery Initiative
Education Subcommittee

2.  What is the HOLLIS+ Articles tab (and how does it work?)
 “Lighting round” demos from:
 Boston College
 Boston University
 Northeastern University
 University of Notre Dame
 Open discussion and questions
Today’s agenda:

3. Slides for this event are posted here:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/oQPVCQ
Or go to wiki.harvard.edu and search for:
What am I searching

4. The user
HOLLIS+
Primo Central Index
(“Articles” tab)
Publisher
data
A&I data
Open
access
data Local data
(“HOLLIS”
tab)
VIA
OASIS
Aleph

5. Primo Central
Index (PCI)
Journal articles, book
chapters, e-books, newspaper
articles, images, digital
objects, open source content,
and more
over 900,000,000 records
aggregators:
Gale Cengage,
ProQuest, etc.
publishers:
Elsevier,
Wiley,
Springer, etc.
open source:
HathiTrust,
DOAJ,
Medline, etc.
A&I services:
MLA, LLBA,
PsycINFO, etc.

6. Content of Primo Central Index DOES NOT EQUAL Harvard e-resources
Gale, ProQuest, MLA, Oxford
Reference, Elsevier, Wiley,
Web of Science, Nature,
JSTOR, HathiTrust, etc.
ASP, Oxford
Reference,
LexisNexis,
JSTOR,
Elsevier,
Nature, etc.
PCI
metadata
sources
Harvard
subscriptions

7. How it works: Primo checks our e-resource holdings to determine whether or
not to display “view online” link:

8. When linking out to full-text, Harvard’s subscription source is often
different from the PCI record source:

9. PCI metadata: not in our control

10. The back end of PCI – activating resources

11. Are all Harvard’s databases in PCI?
No. Most of our database providers also supply records to PCI – but some do not. For
instance, many EBSCO databases are not in PCI.
This does not mean that EBSCO content is not in PCI: As we saw earlier, the metadata
could come directly from the journal publisher (Taylor & Francis) but link out to one of
our EBSCO databases (Business Source Complete):
For more info, see:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/zYhLC

12. Why are there so many duplicate records in PCI?
 Because the same content is being provided from different sources.
 PCI does “FRBR-ize,” but only for exact duplicates.

13. Demo of E-books in PCI:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/TQC4Cg

14. Resources
 These slides:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/oQPVCQ
 Sources of PCI content, including complete list of
deactivated sources:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/eoBLC
 HOLLIS+ FAQs:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/t4J5C
 Information about PCI content under investigation,
including EBSCO databases:
https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/x/zYhLC