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GALILEO Discovery Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore the complexities of GALILEO Discovery with this comprehensive guide outlining what’s included, customization options, and helpful instruction tips. Discover how to navigate through unified index citations, GIL catalogs, full-text links, open access resources, and more. Whether you're a librarian, student, or researcher, this resource will streamline your research process and enhance your understanding of the valuable resources available through GALILEO.

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GALILEO Discovery Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Discovery: Making the Complicated Easy Courtney McGough GALILEO Support Services GIL Users Group Meeting 2014

  2. Outline • Background • What is discovery? • What’s in discovery? • Customization/localization options • Instruction Tips

  3. Discover GALILEO Discover GALILEO: Information Central http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/discover_galileo_information/

  4. Discover GALILEO:A Little History • Live on October 1, 2012 • Digital Library of Georgia and Civil Rights Digital Library included • GIL catalogs (except for consolidating institutions) loaded by May 2013 • GIL catalogs for consolidated institutions loaded July and November of 2013 • Localizations starting in July 2013 and still in progress

  5. What is discovery? Unified Index Citations from publishers – Wiley, Sage, Springer, Elsevier, T&F, etc. Collections from a vendor or “databases” (Literature Resource Center, JSTOR Arts and Sciences, etc.) MARC records from your catalog EBSCO collections

  6. What’s in discovery? It’s complicated!

  7. What’s in discovery?GIL Catalogs • GIL staff worked with GALILEO staff and EBSCO to load your catalogs • Nightly updates (changes may take 48 hours)

  8. What’s in discovery?GIL Catalogs

  9. What’s in discovery?Citations with Links to Full Text

  10. What’s in discovery?Open Access

  11. What’s in discovery?Digital Library of Georgia

  12. What’s in discovery?Civil Rights Digital Library

  13. What’s in discovery?Limiters

  14. What’s in discovery?Limiters

  15. What’s in discovery?Search for ISSN

  16. Customizing Discovery

  17. Customization Options:Turn Resources ON or OFF

  18. Customization Options: CustomLinks to Full Text

  19. Customization Options:Links in the EBSCO Header

  20. Customization Options: Widgets

  21. Instruction Tips

  22. Instruction tips • Good starting point for • Undergraduates, particularly for general studies courses • Literature reviews • Multidisciplinary searches; finding collaborators from another discipline • Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty may find a subject-specific database more helpful • Opportunity to teach evaluating sources and narrowing search results • Known item searching - use quotation marks for phrases or titles • My EBSCOhost Folder

  23. Get More Information Discover GALILEO: Information Central http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/discover_galileo_information/

  24. Questions? Contact Us http://www.galileo.usg.edu/contact

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