Discovery Services

Discovery Services

desLibris content (all Books and Documents) is indexed and available through the following Webscale Discovery Services.

 

While MARC records provide a degree of access, these services augment cataloguing by providing libraries with a unified index of content, fulltext search, results ranking, and other access tools which simplify and focus the discovery process. All desLibris titles included in these services carry links for direct access to the full text of each title.

 

(Note: although CEL provides complete monthly feeds to all services listed below, we have no control of quality or completeness of content, which is under the providers' control.)

 

For more information on adding desLibris to your library's discovery service, contact the service provider.

 

 

desLibris collections can be found in WorldCat's WorldShare Collection Manager by searching for "Canadian Electronic Library". 

  Metadata for the "desLibris Documents" collection is delivered weekly, and the collection should be updated each Thursday.

  Metadata for the books collections is delivered monthly, and the collections should be updated on the third or fourth Thursday.

  (We apologize for the interruption of metadata deliveries for the books collections between summer 2017 and February 2019.)

 

The collections are:

Provider Name

Collection ID

Collection Name

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.deslibdocs

desLibris Documents

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.deslibbookspda

desLibris Books  - Available for Purchase *

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.deslibbooks

desLibris Books

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.deslibcrkn

desLibris CRKN Purchase 2008

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.irwinlaw

Irwin Law

Canadian Electronic Library

cel.ulyssesguides

Ulysses Travel Guides

 

 

* The "desLibris Books  - Available for Purchase" collection also includes titles that are no longer available, but which may have had previous perpetual access purchases.

 

The WorldShare Collection Manager interface is shown in this screen shot from February 2019. 

     (The discontinued "Grey House Directories" collection will soon be removed.)

 

 

Link to: WorldShare Collection Manager release notes and known issues

 

 

 

HLM (HOLDINGS AND LINK MANAGER) has collections corresponding to the desLibris subscription collections and to the 2008 CRKN purchase.  Metadata sets are delivered on the 12th of each month, and HLM updates their metadata fairly promptly.
 

EDS (EBSCO DISCOVERY SERVICE) databases have been updated to correspond to the collections available on the desLibris platform.  This took effect as of July 6, 2018.  Updated metadata is delivered every Friday, and full text has been indexed to enhance the relevance of search results. 

 

The database code for CEL in EDS is "edscel".  Libraries should select the databases corresponding to their holdings.  We're not sure of the exact collection names, but they are something like:

  • desLibris Documents Subscription
  • desLibris Books Subscription
  • Irwin Law
  • Ulysses Travel Guides
  • CRKN purchase 2008

There are also records for books which are not in any subscription collection, but are only available for Perpetual Access purchase.

 

The following description and image may be outdated, or may only apply to HLM:

To find CEL/desLibris collections, go to the Holdings Management tab on your EbscoAdmin dashboard and search "desLibris." This will produce the following:

 

 

The 360 Knowledge Base includes databases for five current desLibris collections. 
They are usually updated promptly after updated metadata is delivered on the 6th of the month. 
The Provider name is Canadian Electronic Library.
This screen shot includes the database codes, and shows title counts as of July 2018:


  "desLibris - Grey House Directories"  was discontinued in summer 2017
 

 

The Knowledge Base supports products such as:

 

DesLibris collections based on the metadata delivered to the 360 Knowledge Base are also available via: 

    Image result for ExLibris ALMA logo             

 

There seems to be a significant delay in updating these collections from the 360 Knowledge Base.  SFX title counts visible in July 2018 correspond to metadata delivered in November 2017.

 

These are the package names as they appear in SFX & Alma:

SFX

Alma

DESLIBRIS_BOOKS

desLibris - Books

DESLIBRIS_CRKN_PURCHASE_2008

desLibris - CRKN purchase 2008

DESLIBRIS_GREY_HOUSE_DIRECTORIES

desLibris - Grey House Directories

DESLIBRIS_GUIDES_DE_VOYAGE_ULYSSE_ULYSSES_TRAVEL_GUIDES

desLibris - Guides de voyage Ulysse / Ulysses Travel Guides

DESLIBRIS_IRWIN_LAW

desLibris - Irwin Law

DESLIBRIS_DOCUMENTS

desLibris - Documents

 

 

 

 

Separate databases with more complete metadata support these products:

 

 

CEL's desLibris collections became available in Summon in December 2017. 

Updated metadata is delivered on the 13th of each month, but we have no confirmation of how promptly they are loaded. 

The collection names are something like these:

   desLibris - Books
   desLibris - Documents
   desLibris - Irwin Law
   desLibris - Guides de voyage Ulysse / Ulysses Travel Guides
   desLibris - CRKN purchase 2008

desLibris collections, based on the same metadata deliveries, are also available in Primo. 

     The screen shots below are from April 11, 2018.

     The "portfolio" count for the books collection was similar to the title count in the November 2017 metadata delivery to Summon. 

      The currency of the Primo collections seems to have improved since then.  In February 2019, we found that a library catalogue supported by Primo included titles from the November 2018 metadata delivery.

 

 

 

 

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