Encore 4, Research Pro, and Encore Synergy
I was at the Innovative users group last week. One session of interest was an overview of
the next Encore Release.
Innovative is coming out with a kind of new product called Encore Synergy. This combines Research Pro article database integration with Encore. It is designed for libraries that do not currently have Research Pro and will include new databases that use the new web services connector technology. This is sometime called the XML connectors because it uses web services to send searches and retrieve results, which is much quicker than traditional federated searching.
Currently database from Gale, Ebsco, and Jstor use these connectors and you will see search results in our currrent encore and research pro return results much faster for these databases.
This is, I believe, there response to discovery services such as Summon and the Ebsco Discovery System. Whether its as fast as their approach to preindexing data or not I am not sure, but should be pretty close and has the advantage of being somewhat more current since data does not have to be pre-indexed for those services. They say they are working hard to establish more xml connectors with new services, with Elsevier and Pubmed coming soon they say. But it will also be possible to include non-xml databases, they will just be slower.
For sites (like WSU) that already have Encore and Research Pro we should see this coming with the installation of Encore 4.o, or soon after. This should be available for us to install within 3-4
weeks.
Encore searches will return results for a given search with some catalog records returned first usually, with selected article results and the option to view more. There will also be new media type limiters of Article. According to studies they say they have conducted, users seem to gravitate toward the media/format type limiters more often than others.
They also mentioned that they will be introducing Peer-Reviewed limiters in Encore 4.0/Research Pro.
I have a powerpoint of this presentation. If anyone is interested please let me know and I will send it.
the next Encore Release.
Innovative is coming out with a kind of new product called Encore Synergy. This combines Research Pro article database integration with Encore. It is designed for libraries that do not currently have Research Pro and will include new databases that use the new web services connector technology. This is sometime called the XML connectors because it uses web services to send searches and retrieve results, which is much quicker than traditional federated searching.
Currently database from Gale, Ebsco, and Jstor use these connectors and you will see search results in our currrent encore and research pro return results much faster for these databases.
This is, I believe, there response to discovery services such as Summon and the Ebsco Discovery System. Whether its as fast as their approach to preindexing data or not I am not sure, but should be pretty close and has the advantage of being somewhat more current since data does not have to be pre-indexed for those services. They say they are working hard to establish more xml connectors with new services, with Elsevier and Pubmed coming soon they say. But it will also be possible to include non-xml databases, they will just be slower.
For sites (like WSU) that already have Encore and Research Pro we should see this coming with the installation of Encore 4.o, or soon after. This should be available for us to install within 3-4
weeks.
Encore searches will return results for a given search with some catalog records returned first usually, with selected article results and the option to view more. There will also be new media type limiters of Article. According to studies they say they have conducted, users seem to gravitate toward the media/format type limiters more often than others.
They also mentioned that they will be introducing Peer-Reviewed limiters in Encore 4.0/Research Pro.
I have a powerpoint of this presentation. If anyone is interested please let me know and I will send it.
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