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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 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. Easy to allow people to place a request for something that’s not in the UC. Also the citation can be good which helps us in ILL find the thing the person wants.
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Cons | exposes 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 some 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.) It annoys people when they place requests for material they won’t be able to get.
| Existing issue with real time availability makes some available items not show up because system isn’t processing them right. gradGrad/faculty searching for known items are unable to find what they need. user 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.
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