Nice little video about Primo Central (although someone's been watching too many Commoncraft videos!)
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Friday, 16 April 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Primo Central webinar 9th Feb 2010
Quick recap - Primo Central is an index of scholarly material, hosted and managed by Ex Libris which will be free to Metalib customers. It will be released in the Metalib Knowledgebase in Q3 2010 and will contain articles, ebooks and some other e-content and will index the bib data, abstracts and full text.
The webinar showed that there's a large list of publishers signed up - some such as EBSCO will only be available to subscribers (although it wasn't clear exactly how this will be configured).The info should be up to date - the index will be updated daily for most resources but more often where necessary. Some thing which I hadn't realised is that you will be able to see where each result has come from so can link to that database to do a more in depth search.
The main advantage is that search response will be much faster - rather than having to wait for individual databases to send results it will all be comign from one place.
The webinar showed that there's a large list of publishers signed up - some such as EBSCO will only be available to subscribers (although it wasn't clear exactly how this will be configured).The info should be up to date - the index will be updated daily for most resources but more often where necessary. Some thing which I hadn't realised is that you will be able to see where each result has come from so can link to that database to do a more in depth search.
The main advantage is that search response will be much faster - rather than having to wait for individual databases to send results it will all be comign from one place.
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