A current awareness resource for students & faculty members in Business & Economics
Got a minute to run some test searches for us?
Published by Mark BodnarHey SFU researchers!
Have you ever used the Library Search box on our library's home page? It searches our site, a few of our more unique collections (e.g., our institutional repository), and a vast collection of all our books and ebooks and the majority of the online journals that we carry.
Since 2010, a major component of that feature has been our Fast Search search engine -- that's the part that covers all our books and most of our journals.
We're in the midst of evaluating alternative software for Fast Search, and we'd love to hear your opinions! The two products we are looking at right now are:
1. Summon -- newly updated version 2 of the current Fast Search available on our site
2. EDS - EBSCO Discovery Service -- an engine built by the publisher of such databases as Business Source Complete, EconLit, and PsycInfo
If you have a few minutes, run some test searches in the two software contenders. Try using some of the common terms and articles in your area of research.
These sorts of search engines are at their best when looking for specific articles or books, or running broad exploratory searches. For detailed, subject-specific topics, we have hundreds of other databases with interfaces designed for the content in each discipline.
Let us know if one of the two options seems to work significantly better/worse than the other, or if there are any features in the interfaces that you particularly like/dislike. It would help if you could include as many details as possible so that we can understand your needs.
Please send your feedback to review-discovery-services@sfu.ca by 10 June 2014 .
Thank you so much for your input!