Vendor Collaboration Enhances Utah State University Library Discovery Process
Thanks
to
a new partnership between two vendors, the Utah
State University library in Logan,
UT will now be able to expand the resources available to students and
faculty.
For
several
years, Utah State has used Innovative's
Encore discovery system to
organize its collection. Innovative, based in Emeryville, CA, provides
technology for large library systems.
A
little over a year ago, Innovative and EBSCO
Information Services expanded a
strategic partnership that already existed.
EBSCO
provides
online research content to libraries beyond their own collections. It
has a database of more than 360,000 serial publications,
50,000 e-journals and
600,000 e-books.
By
way
of a new product EBSCO and Innovative have collaborated on, EDS via
Encore
Duet, Utah State University will be able to seamlessly provide access to
EBSCO's
inventory of research resources along with its own digital collection
with what
EBSCO representatives describe as an "intuitive interface."
With
the
new partnership between EBSCO and Innovative, the two companies have
jointly developed an integrated system that gives users access to EBSCO
Discovery Service and Innovative's Encore discovery platform.
"The
integration
of EDS with Encore allows us to enhance the power of our discovery
platform while retaining the familiar interface and customization," said
Utah
State Integrated Systems Librarian Cheryl Adams.
At
the
same time, the new EDS via Encore Duet will give the Utah State library
opportunities for customization that didn't exist before.
"The
ability
to customize is very important to us," Adams said, "and we will be
taking advantage of those options."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.