[Wactclc-primo] Newspaper Discovery Portal

[Daniel Moore]

Yeah, those FAQs... I mean, we can look at their planned vs. marketed Alma
sandbox policy document and see how that message was transformed as it
moved through the pipeline.

If folks haven't seen this, here's a working Primo site that currently uses
the discovery portal:
https://cmich-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,gravitational%20waves&tab=everything&search_scope=EVERYTHING&vid=01CMICH&lang=en_US&offset=0.
You'll see in the facets a new link to re-run the query as a Newspaper
search as well as the "footer" bar in the results list that does the same.

-Dan

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:43 AM Guidry, Wade <WadeG at bigbend.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Dan.
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> The wording in the current FAQs on the topic seems to indicate that we
> will indeed lose the ability to include newspaper article content in
> general searches. (Newspaper title level results would still appear in
> general searches.) Though, I’m not totally convinced that is what ExL is
> planning. Their product messaging, particularly prior to a feature release,
> gets garbled as it passes through management layers at ExL.
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> Just FYI for the group, here is the current FAQs on this topic:
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> https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/005FAQs/Frequently_Asked_Questions_for_Newspaper_Search
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> The feedback I’d like relayed to the Primo working group is that
> institutions should be allowed to continue including newspaper content in
> blended search scopes. Rather than be forced to use a dedicated newspaper
> search scope.
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> Speaking a consortium manager, that is the functionality under which we
> licensed the product initially, and have not agreed to drop that
> functionality. (I will also share that perspective with our sales rep,
> since I realize that the ELUNA working groups are more for feature /
> usability discussions with ExL, not licensing disputes J.)
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> *Wade Guidry*
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> WACTCLC Alma Instance: Alma NA02 <http://status.exlibrisgroup.com/>
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> *From:* Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Daniel Moore
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 29, 2018 11:12 AM
> *To:* wactclc-primo at lists.ctc.edu
> *Subject:* [Wactclc-primo] Newspaper Discovery Portal
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> Hey all,
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> There's a thread going in Primo-L right now regarding the Newspaper
> Discovery Portal that ExL introduced earlier this year. Ex Libris has
> adjusted its rollout strategy for this portal due to intense customer
> feedback.
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> I'm taking this subject to the Primo Working Group which is meeting
> tomorrow but I also wanted to start a thread on it here since the Newspaper
> Discovery Portal will no doubt have huge impacts across our libraries. How
> are folks feeling about the current - if poorly communicated - plans to
> move newspaper results out of general search results and into its own
> discovery portal? Has anyone conducted any user testing with
> students/faculty to see how this change might impact instruction and
> research?
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> Ann Kucera at CMU reported the following data after testing the new portal
> with students:
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> "We’ve tested it with students. ‘Please find 3 newspaper articles about
> climate change.’ They began on our home page and needed to find a way to
> get to the Newspaper search page.
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> -          About 1/3 (3 out of 9) of the students thought that the
> ‘Newspapers’ link in the facets was a heading and that all of the facets
> below related to newspapers. The other 6 students clicked on it after a
> short search and completed the task.
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> -          All 9 students said they had never needed to find newspaper
> articles for any class.
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> -          No one clicked on the Newspapers link on the bottom of the
> page.
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> -          We haven’t had any complaints that people have told me about.
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> -          Reference and instruction librarians seem to think it’s fine."
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> With so little time left in this quarter I fear that conducting a
> well-scoped user test is not feasible. We'll be doing some targeted user
> testing next quarter on our website and Primo in general but will probably
> wrap the Newspaper Discovery Portal into those tests.
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> -Dan
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-- 
Regards,

Dan Moore
Systems and Collections Librarian
Edmonds Community College Library
dan.moore at edcc.edu / daniel.moore at email.edcc.edu
(425) 640-1526
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