10-15-2019, 12:41 PM
Jennifer:
Just going to reply to one small piece of your message and my apologies if I am stating stuff you already know. Just didn't want to assume and leave out something important. Pre-Alma we had an LMS (Aleph) and a Link Resolver (SFX). Some of our e-resource, primarily ebooks and streaming media, has bib records in Aleph and could be found when searching just Aleph. While many e-resources can be included in Primo's searching (through the Primo Central Index), the actual links to full text came from either Aleph or SFX.
With Alma, the link resolver is part of the system. Just as with SFX, everything we can access electronically has to be activated in Alma if we want to be able to get to the full text. If I remember correctly, you have said that DCC doesn't have any locally subscribed resources, just the shared VIVA and VCCS. Those are all handled at the SO level and get activated in the Network Zone. Everything shared that was in SFX migrated into Alma. Our Primo instances are set up so that only full text e-resources will display initially, but you can get the indexed only sources by Checking the Expand my search box at the bottom of the facet list.
As for your question about a Journal Search that includes everything, whether full text or not, I'll have to defer to Emily, but there are probably two ways something is available, either through some kind of search scope in the journal A-Z list configuration in Primo or by some Analytic. I haven't created any e-inventory analytics yet, but there are a quite a few available in Alma.
Just going to reply to one small piece of your message and my apologies if I am stating stuff you already know. Just didn't want to assume and leave out something important. Pre-Alma we had an LMS (Aleph) and a Link Resolver (SFX). Some of our e-resource, primarily ebooks and streaming media, has bib records in Aleph and could be found when searching just Aleph. While many e-resources can be included in Primo's searching (through the Primo Central Index), the actual links to full text came from either Aleph or SFX.
With Alma, the link resolver is part of the system. Just as with SFX, everything we can access electronically has to be activated in Alma if we want to be able to get to the full text. If I remember correctly, you have said that DCC doesn't have any locally subscribed resources, just the shared VIVA and VCCS. Those are all handled at the SO level and get activated in the Network Zone. Everything shared that was in SFX migrated into Alma. Our Primo instances are set up so that only full text e-resources will display initially, but you can get the indexed only sources by Checking the Expand my search box at the bottom of the facet list.
As for your question about a Journal Search that includes everything, whether full text or not, I'll have to defer to Emily, but there are probably two ways something is available, either through some kind of search scope in the journal A-Z list configuration in Primo or by some Analytic. I haven't created any e-inventory analytics yet, but there are a quite a few available in Alma.
Jacque Dessino
Electronic Services Librarian
Tidewater Community College
757-822-2646
jdessino@tcc.edu
Electronic Services Librarian
Tidewater Community College
757-822-2646
jdessino@tcc.edu