[Wactclc-primo] PCI and eBook Collections

[Nicole Longpre]

I have this issue too, and was told that if you want title level searchability (Alma activation) and article/entry level searchability (PCI activation) then you are going to have two records. It's very frustrating as some of the records that show up from PCI activations are truly horrible.

I'm choosing to tolerate the duplicate records. If I have a student who is looking for information on fibromyalgia, I would hope that they would find information from the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. If I don't have the title activated in PCI, then it won't show up if a patron does a topic or keyword search. I think it is important that the individual entries in reference-type works are findable.

I don't know that adding the e-book via a local electronic collection will help any. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.

Nicole

From: Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Kun, Lily
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wactclc-primo] PCI and eBook Collections

Here's another ebook problem I had that you might also encounter:

If you activate ProQuest Ebook Central Perpetual Titles (PQ ECPT) because you have purchased permanent ebrary ebooks, then you will get duplicate records of all the ebooks in your other collections where PC ECPT also has a record.

For example, I have the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine through GVRL, but PC ECPT also has a record of this book in its collection, so I end up with two duplicate records on my results page when I search for it in Primo. Both of the records will point to GVRL for the full text, but one of them will be from Alma and the other will be from PCI. (Screenshot attached)

After going round and round with SalesForce for a month (Case #00413636), I was told that there really isn't a way to de-dup the records. Basically, there's really only two solutions: 1) tolerate the duplicate records; 2) deactivate PC ECPT in PCI. Guess which one I'm gonna do? In this instance, it'll be easier and cleaner to create a local electronic collection for the ebrary ebook titles that I purchased.

Lily

From: Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Traci Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:56 AM
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Subject: [Wactclc-primo] PCI and eBook Collections

Good morning,

I spoke with Doris Munson on my flight home from Schaumburg about activations in Primo Central Index. Many of you may already know this information, but I thought I would share it with you all anyway.


*         We deactivated almost all of the ebook collections in PCI because PCI will act as if we have access to all the ebooks indexed in a collection. This results in patrons getting false messages that they have access to an ebook.

Best Regards,
Traci


Traci Taylor, MLS
Systems Librarian
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Ave.
Bellingham,WA 98225
Email | ttaylor at btc.edu<mailto:ttaylor at btc.edu>
Phone |360.752.8488




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