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LIBRARY JOURNAL ›› 2013, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 82-86.

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Research, Testing and Assessment of Three Resource Discovery Systems

Yin Shenqin, Tang Wujing, Shao Chengmin, Xie Ying, Wang Le, Zhang Jilong   

  • Online:2013-12-15 Published:2013-12-25

Abstract:

The resource discovery team of Fudan University Library visited eight academic libraries, made a research on the three discovery systems, namely Primo, Summon, and EDS, conducted three internal testing and readers surveys and concluded with a comprehensive assessment from five aspects, including retrieval functions and user interface, the readers assessment, metadata evaluation, resource-integrating products’ features, followup system scalability and maintainability, so as to determine the key factors for selecting discovery system.

Key words: Discovery system, System research, Deployment test, Comprehensive assessment, Primo, Summon, EDS