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Management of content in EDS means balancing the combination of EBSCO published (EBSCOHost) and non-EBSCO published metadata. EBSCO “manages” metadata and access issues in the same way that ExLibris maintains the back end, but we still have to activate targets to create access. Enabling metadata in EDS follows a three step process that must all be completed for something to be correctly searchable. Once something appears in your CORAL queue then you can start the process of enabling metadata.
Linking through EDS is rather complex, and has a variety of methods. This is due to our relationship with EBSCO as a publisher, a subscription agent, and as a discovery service. Basically there are three different types of links.
Like SFX, enabling metadata is a three step process.
Once the metadata is enabled for searching, you need to enable the CustomLink so that full text can actually be retrieved.
There are many fields in this menu. Some are configurable, some should never be changed.
The final step is assigning a ranking to whatever metadata you just enabled.
Any content which is billed to EBSCO is maintained in Holdings Management by EBSCO. The last (second) full load from SFX to EBSCO is to be done in Summer 2017 using a Basic Export from SFX. EBSCO was unable to use an Advanced export despite the availability of parse params. From now on, management of non-EBSCO billed ejournals needs to be done manually.
For workflow: see Access Coordination.
For instructions on making changes in HLM: see https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/Full_Text_Finder/Holdings_Management_User_Guide/Adding_or_Removing_Titles_from_Holdings#titles2
There is a cron job set up to transfer SFX holdings to EDS for the Library Collection Limiter. The cron runs at 4:01 am every Tuesday to be processed by EBSCO on Wednesdays at 11:00 am. The cron sends an Advanced Export serials file by ftp to EBSCO. See Steve Bischof for more information.