Resource D escription & A ccess (RDA) is intended to provide a flexible and extensible
framework that can accommodate all types of content and media within rapidly evolving …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify the features that international student users
prefer for next generation OPACs. Design/methodology/approach–A total of 16 international …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to show how the addition of a next‐generational
overlay to an existing online catalog can lead to more‐refined searching by users. Users of …

Los repositorios de recursos educativos abiertos de aprendizaje facilitan el acceso al
conocimiento, proporcionando oportunidades para que las instituciones de educación …

The authors of this chapter interviewed librarians from fifteen academic institutions who
participated in a selection process for a discovery service. The pool of academic institutions …

Open search systems present a free and less restricted alternative to commercial search
services. This paper explores the space of open search technology looking in particular at …

As the customs of the Internet grow increasingly collaborative, crowdsourcing offers an
appealing frame for looking at the interaction of users with online systems and each other …

OBJECTIVE The objective of this project was to perform an environmental scan of next
generation discovery interfaces. This included determining what products and features are …

Resource Description & Access (RDA) is intended to provide a flexible and extensible
framework that can accommodate all types of content and media within rapidly evolving …

In this paper, we report the preliminary results of a pilot project currently ongoing at UCSC
Central Library, inspired to the methodologies used by translators working within European …