Gale Database Enhancements & Name Changes

[jcarrell]

Thanks for sending this link out!  We totally missed the notices too (if they were indeed sent out), and we just noticed yesterday that GVRL had changed its name to Gale eBooks.  Not my preference (it's less descriptive than "virtual reference library"), but we'll get used to it.  That said, has anyone played around with the searching in Gale eBooks?  There's a "Basic Search" and an "Advanced: Keyword" search and they're doing different things.  Was it always like this?  I've got a ticket in with Gale to find out the difference.  We're thinking the search algorithms changed too.  It used to be better at interpreting the query.  For example, inputting "dogs" (without quotes) into the default Basic Search gives me 12000 results and the top results aren't helpful.  Input "dogs" into the Advanced: Keyword and I get 1000 results and the ranking looks better.  If you do a more exact term like "photography", both are fine (even if the results are different).  It's almost like the "fuzzy matching" is worse in the new interface.

Is this just us???  I didn't pay much attention to how the previous interface was configured, but the searching seems off somehow...