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Description

A search will return all relevant CDI results regardless of availability. Users will see electronic article and ebook results that are available online as well as those they must submit a request for.

A search will only return CDI results with full text availability. Articles and ebooks that must be requested are filtered out.

Pros

• being able to find literally anything that's in the cdi. Risk around known item and niche materials not being surfaced when things are filtered.

• Ex Libris expects that libraries are filtering. (that’s a pro?)

• Hides unavailable stuff from undergraduates. Simplifies the results and gets them stuff that gets their assignments completed.

Cons

• exposes undergrads to a lot of unavailable stuff and they did NOT like that. Looks like half the stuff in library is unavailable.

• There is painfully bad, absolute junk in the CDI

• Some stuff is impossible to ILL. (dissertations, that only exist in one place. Datasets. Collections of CDI like NDL, medieval manuscripts from Europe that we have no access to.)

• Existing issue with real time availability makes some available items not show up because system isn’t processing them right.

• grad/faculty searching for known items are unable to find what they need.

• user selection fatigue because of all of the options on the left hand side.

• Some confusion about “expanding” while all other filters limit results.

• Can’t get people to toggle unfilter.

Discovery Reviews Initial Recommendation

16 Dec 2022

Send to Eresource and Fulfillment for feedback.

16 Dec 2022 13 Jan 2023

Final Decision

13 27 Jan 2023