EBSCO Ideas Portal
This Ideas Portal enables you to share any ideas you have for GOBI, ECM or the upcoming new books ordering platform, as well as vote and comment on any submitted ideas.
This Ideas Portal enables you to share any ideas you have for GOBI, ECM or the upcoming new books ordering platform, as well as vote and comment on any submitted ideas.
I have often been looking for eBooks containing a particular concept and will not find a title using the currently limited search. I have needed to go to Google Books, search full text there, and then come back to see if the eBooks found are available. Students can find the eBooks they need by using EDS, please help us buy the eBooks they need by enabling us to search for and purchase them!
Michael - Here's another one. I had to go to WorldCat to search and find it (as I did with the last one) by searching for mariachi, find out that EBSCO has it available as an eBook, and then come back to EBSCO to select it. I could have been less diligent in my search and just said "oh well, EBSCO doesn't have anything" but I knew that couldn't be true! Others may not have the knowledge or not have the time to make the effort.
Transnational Encounters : Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border Product ID:409615
Mark
Michael - I was searching ECM. It was quite a while ago but key words would have dealt with various theories of management styles, such as "Theory Y" Taylorism, etc. (Even a little bit, a short description would be helpful. I did find some as I described.) However, today I ran across one. I am looking for eBooks that include information on mariachi music. I searched for mariachi and came up with some titles, but most were juvenile books or music, and none met my students' needs. However, in doing some searching around NOT in ECM, I found The Handbook Of Texas, and subsequently located it by title in ECM (Product ID:635345) . It has Mariachi in the index as well as an entry, and presumably more uses of the term. There's only a short entry on the topic - maybe three pages, but enough for my current needs, and a start for our students. (There could be additional entries on popular mariachi musicians as well, I don't know.) If there had been a full text search of the title content in ECM it would have presumably found this title.
I need to be able to identify what our students will be able to find on topics that interest them or that they need information on. If I can't locate them without having the same access that they do, I am doing them a disservice, and EBSCO is losing out on sales! I can only imagine how many eBooks have not been selected by librarians and subsequently not triggered/purchased by students because of this issue.
Mark
[ASU]
Mark Allan, M.S.L.S., J.D.
Assistant Director of Research and Instruction Services
Porter Henderson Library
Angelo State University
Member, Texas Tech University System
ASU Station #11013
San Angelo, TX 76909-1013
Phone: 325-486-6535
Fax: 325-942-2198
mark.allan@angelo.edu
http://www.angelo.edu
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Hello,
I have a couple questions. First were you searching in ECM or in GOBI? Second, would you please pass along examples of your search criteria and what you were hoping to find but didn't?
Thank you!