Discovering the Leeds Metropolitan University repository

Nick Sheppard, our Repository Developer, has written a guest blog post about integrating the Leeds Met Repository and Discover: Historically, Institutional Repositories have been perceived as outward facing systems, designed to promote Open Access to institutions’ research outputs and/or openly licensed teaching and learning material, so called Open Educational Resources (OER). As Repository Developer, however, a [...]

Going live

We have now soft-launched Ebsco Discovery Service under the working title ‘Discover More in The Library’.  What we eventually call the system is just one of the things up for discussion.  There has been a small amount of publicity but we’re basically putting the system out there to be found, used and evaluated whilst it’s [...]

Discover more in The Library

Oops! It’s been an age since we last blogged and such a lot has happened – much of it during a commercially sensitive tender process. Anyway – at last here’s an update to let you know some outcomes of our project. First, the real news – we’re pleased to announce we’ve chosen EBSCO Discovery Service [...]

Resource Discovery Revisited at Leeds Met Library

Welcome to the project blog investigating Resource Discovery and Federated Searching systems for Leeds Met Library. As an introduction/background to the project I’ll explain why I’ve used the word ‘revisited’ in the title of this first post.  Leeds Met Library last investigated federated searching solutions when we were looking for an Open URL product during [...]