2013 Charleston Conference

In recent years, libraries are seeing a trend towards the use of new discovery layers that seek to integrate typical integrated library system bibliographic content with that of journal level abstracts as well as other library produced content such as digital collections, institutional repository content, and other forms of new model library published scholarly content. These types of discovery layers have been built as open source systems such as VuFind and Blacklight and as SaaS solutions such as (Ebsco Discovery Services, Primo, Summon). Many libraries though are seeing options for a 3rd type of discovery layer one that is managed by the library through an open source framework but that integrates content from several different indexing silos. These include the aforementioned library produced content that may be available in an enterprise type index API along with granular article level abstracting that may come from one of the indexing APIs available from commercial providers.

In this session, panelists will present key options for discovery layer implementation from the libraries at the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University and from work being done by Ebsco Information Services that incorporates their EDS API service into open source discovery layers. Additionally, the speakers will describe how their open source strategies fit with their adoption of the Kuali OLE open source ILS and of the new collaboration between Ebsco Discovery Services as a Kuali Commercial Affiliate (KCA) organization.