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Web Scale Discovery
Catalog
Multiple databases/multiple interfaces
Repositories
Procedures and terminology
Site searches/search boxes
Why?
User expectations and standards
Digital natives
Scope of information is complicated
Applications in UG courses:
- Shift in focus for bibliographic instruction
- Cross disciplinary research connections
- Higher level research skills, tools and awareness
- Accountability
The Advent of Web Scale Discovery: What it Means for Undergraduate Research
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Surface Web
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Content
Discovery
Delivery
Flexibility
Deep Web
The Principle of Least Effort
"People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable so long as it requires little effort to find rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find."
- -Marcia Bates, Improving User Access to Library Catalog and Portal Information: Final Report. Prepared for the Library of Congress. 2003 - as referenced in this context by Jason Vaughn
550 x size of surface web
The Big 5:
Open Access Content
- Hathi Trust
Directory of Open Access Journals
Full text!
Much more
Washburn
JCCC
OK State
Mizzou
Pittsburg State
AND
KS State
U. of Kansas
Emporia State
U. of Oklahoma
Back End
Interface
- Aggregated index
- Deduplication
- Cloud hosted
- Relevancy
- High # results
- Facets
- Link resolver sync
- Authentication
- Personalization
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Content Credits
Content from path points, 20 and 25-27 was taken from Jason Vaughn's "Web Scale Discovery Services". ALA TechSource, vol. 47/no. 1 ISSN 0024-2586