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Recommendation
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Recommendation
Harmonization is undesirable due to the unique needs of each campus. Each campus should make the decision based upon their collection and user needs).
Impact
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Stakeholder group
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Impact
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Who does this decision affect? [name of the group]
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Explain the significance of the decision to EACH stakeholder group. How will this decision impact this particular group? What will change? Do they need to take any action? If so, when?
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eResources
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Reasoning
Background
Prior to the migration to a consortium, campuses were able to curate their CDI collections. While this required them to turn on access to individual collections, it also allowed them to weed out collections with poor metadata.
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We are revisiting this issue in order to provide guidance and examples of the pros and cons of limiting by availability or not.
What is Filter by Availability?
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CDI has tens of millions of records. By default, a search will surface all CDI results regardless of availability to the library.
When configuring a search profile that includes the Central Index search scope, libraries can opt to “Filter by Availability” so that the search profile will not surface results that do not have full text availability. So, the only CDI records that would display would be those with full text availability.
This setting causes the “Expand My Results” toggle to display. Then, if a user wants to include results for CDI records that do not contain full text, they can select the Expand My Results check box.
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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. |
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Local Decisions
UCR: The Our default search profile, Articles, Books, and More profile is unfiltered. But we added the CDI scope to the UCR Library (IZ) search profile, , includes CDI collections unfiltered. UCR decided this for now in the spirit of providing as much access to outside resources as possible.
However, the local IZ catalog, UC Riverside Catalog, includes the CDI scope filtered by availability, and excluded excluding ebooks.
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The idea was that we wanted the UCR Library profile to show users what they could theoretically get “right now” by walking to a shelf or clicking an available online link. The only items they would have to put any kind of request on would be print items that were checked out/lost/in transit. We excluded ebooks eBooks to reduce duplication because CDI and IZ holdings do not dedupdedupe.
The second code, IZ_CRRestricted, is the MyInstitution scope modified to exclude records flagged as course reserve restricted in order to keep restricted items (such as professor copies) from surfacing outside of the course reserve search scope.
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UCSF: Our default search profile (‘Search articles, books, and more’) includes CDI collections, and we have Filter by Availability turned on
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We have decided to leave the filter off in favor of increasing the discoverability of resources that would otherwise be hidden initially by having it on. In most cases tested, the results of the search with the filter on or off returned a large number of results and the tester was doubtful of how useful it was only having a slightly smaller result set vs the increased visibility of more records that were also relevant.
Dependencies
Questions to consider
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How exactly does this impact ILL?
How would they test this?
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Why in the world did I approach this decision page and testing backwards?
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There was no good option with easy active vs fully flexible. There were pros and cons on both sides. Easy active was less work on the catalog side of things.
Consider that the whole point of this shared catalog thing was to get everything accessible by the UCs into one bucket for people to discover, even if it’s not currently on the shelf or subscribed to. An increased ILL Workload is definitely going to be a part of that.
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UCSC: Our default search profile, “Articles, books, and more” is set to filter by availability
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Our local team prioritizes undergraduate student success when making design and configuration decisions. Our testing with undergraduate students indicates that students expect most materials in UC Library Search to be available immediately (either online or on the shelf). We found that not filtering by availability too frequently retrieved results where fewer than 70% of items were availability immediately. We are concerned about the obstacles filtering by availability presents for users attempting to find known item CDI materials that are not “available” and we continue to work on interface changes to facilitate the discovery of these materials.
Action Log
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Discovery Reviews Initial Recommendation |
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Send to Eresource and Fulfillment for feedback. |
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Sent to Resource Sharing for Feedback |
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Final Decision |
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