Watkins, Steven G.

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PANEL	  DISCUSSION:	  ON	  THE	  WILD	  FRONTIER	  OF	  DISCOVERY	  	  Steve	  Watkins,	  Moderator	  California	  State	  University	  Monterey	  Bay	  Library	  Seaside	  CA,	  USA	  	  	  	  ABSTRACT	  Panelists:	  Maureen	  Nolan,	  University	  of	  Washington,	  Natural	  Sciences	  Library,	  WA,	  USA	  Sally	  Taylor,	  University	  of	  British	  Columbia,	  Woodward	  Biomedical	  Library,	  Canada	  	  	  Marie-­‐Pascale	  Baligand,	  Irstea,	  France	  Marcel	  Brannemann,	  Alfred	  Wegener	  Institute	  for	  Polar	  and	  Marine	  Research,	  Bibliothek,	  Germany	  With	  the	  advent	  of	  Web-­‐scale	  discovery	  services	  in	  recent	  years	  that	  offer	  a	  comprehensive	  index	  of	  a	  library's	  licensed	  and	  locally	  owned	  content,	  all	  accessible	  via	  a	  simple,	  single	  search	  box,	  the	  question	  naturally	  arises	  how	  these	  new	  tools	  compare	  with	  more	  traditional	  databases.	  The	  panelists	  share	  their	  experiences	  with	  the	  discovery	  services	  at	  their	  respective	  libraries,	  including	  user	  response.	  The	  panelists	  discuss	  various	  types	  of	  searches	  and	  offer	  recommendations	  regarding	  when	  the	  discovery	  service	  might	  prove	  most	  effective	  and	  when	  traditional	  databases	  should	  be	  used	  instead.	  A	  brief	  analysis	  of	  the	  relative	  depth	  of	  coverage	  of	  the	  literature	  across	  a	  commercial	  discovery	  service,	  Google	  Scholar,	  core	  indexing/abstracting	  databases,	  and	  publisher	  ejournal	  collections	  is	  presented.	  The	  panelists	  also	  discuss	  the	  pedagogical	  implications	  of	  teaching	  users	  this	  new	  style	  of	  searching	  and	  information	  retrieval.	  Keywords:	  discovery	  tools,	  searching,	  databases,	  ejournal	  collections,	  information	  retrieval	  	  	  	  	   	  	  	   

Panel discussion: on the wild frontier of discovery

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Panel discussion: on the wild frontier of discovery

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