Recent Scout changes

Center for Research Libraries now appears as a separate location in the Location facet of EDS. If you are just interested in results from the Center for Research Libraries, you can either check the Center for Research Libraries checkbox in the Location facet, or you can add AND LB cen* to your query and then check the Catalog Only limiter. Conversely, if you want to exclude Center for Research Libraries results from your query, you can add NOT LB cen* to your query in conjunction with the Catalog Only limiter.

One improvement we’ve been working on recently has been to get series metadata for catalog records searchable when a title search is conducted in Scout. Though EBSCO has made a number of changes to catalog searching in Scout in order to provide this functionality, Mary Alexander has identified series MARC fields and subfields that should be searched when a title search is conducted but that currently aren’t. We will continue to work with EBSCO on improving this functionality in Scout. Thank you to Barb Dahlbach for initially bringing the issue with searching series metadata in Scout to our attention.

Finally, HathiTrust links now display “Check for access options” links when no full text access is available in HathiTrust. This is just a link to Full Text Finder’s link resolver. When full text is not found, users will see links to the catalog and to the interlibrary loan form. Thank you to Vin Scalfani and Kevin Walker for bringing this issue to our attention.