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Hello.

The announcement (below) has gone out to the vendor’s list of SUNY library campus contacts.  EBSCO is providing this federated search tool to SUNYConnect at no additional charge for simultaneous searching of any EBSCO database, SUNYConnect resources as well as the SUNY union catalog.

(Your library can include other non-EBSCO databases and your local Aleph catalog for a fee.)

Couple of issues/upcoming changes to this system:

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Welcome to EBSCOhost Integrated Search!

Your EBSCOhost Integrated Search account is now available.

To access your new EBSCOhost Integrated Search account (EHIS), please use the URL provided below.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=cookie,ip,url,uid&group=main&profile=ehis

We have added an EBSCOhost Integrated Search profile (Profile ID: ehis) to your EBSCOadmin account. This is where your EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) account settings and external connectors reside. Your EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) account was setup using the databases provided to you by the SUNY consortia. If you would like to add any other EBSCOhost databases you might have to EhIS, you can do this in your EBSCOadmin account in the EBSCOhost Integrated Search Profile (ehis).

The SUNY consortia has also setup database Subject Groupings. These can also be modified in your EBSCOadmin account as well.

For more information on setting up subject groups for your databases and other sources please see our FAQ at:

http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=4424.

If you would like help with these settings or would like to have EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) applied to any of your existing EBSCOhost interface profiles please let us know by emailing ehis@ebscohost.com

For more information on EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EHIS) please see our EHIS Support Center and FAQs:

EHIS Support Center-

http://support.ebscohost.com/ehis/

EHIS FAQs-

http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/search.php?interface_id=&page_function=search&keyword=Integrated+Search

If you have additional questions about EHIS, please don’t hesitate to contact the EBSCOhost Integrated Search Team at ehis@ebscohost.com or call us at (800) 758-5995.

Thank you,

The EHIS Support Team
ehis@ebscohost.com

From Serials Solutions -

We would like to remind you that we are scheduled to upgrade our storage infrastructure to provide us additional system scalability and improve upon our system redundancies. As a result of this upgrade, the Serials Solutions Client Center, Ulrichs and all 360 services may be unavailable for as long as six hours on Friday, July 31, from 6:00 pm – 12:00 am PDT (Saturday, August 1, from 0100 – 0700 am GMT).

Please note that you can subscribe to Support Center Answer 422 to stay updated on scheduled maintenance and system downtimes.

Thank you for being a valued subscriber of Serials Solutions e-resource access and management services.

Regards,

Michael

Michael G. Platt
Director, Library Client Services & Quality Assurance
SerialsSolutions

Syndetic S. content is back; network access good from here.  Thanks to those who reported the problem; let us know if any issues continue/re-appear.

5/29/09 10:22am update! from the vendor: “Syndetics issue should be resolved within an hour!

Again, we apologize for any inconveniences!”

Hello.

Tech. support for Syndetic Solutions (via Bowker) indicates that they are working to track down the source of the problem (resulting in loss of book cover images, links to summaries, TOCs, etc. for the SUNYConnect ALEPH sites).

Updates as they are available.

The vendor apologies for any inconvenience.

John

John Schumacher
Office of Library and Information Services
SUNY System Administration
SUNY Plaza
Albany, NY 12246
518-443-5577
john.schumacher@suny.edu
SUNYConnect database trials
and offers are listed at
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/dbtrials.htm

SUNYergy Vol. 11 No. 1 is available on the web at http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/sunyergy/default40.htm

SUNYergy: SUNY Libraries Working Together, is a quarterly publication of the State University of New York’s Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS).

The OLIS is offering a document that lists suggestions for using Aleph to capture statistics for the NCES Academic Libraries Survey for 2008.  Note that these are suggestions and they should be considered in terms of the local environment and adapted as necessary.  The document is based on one Andy Perry compiled in 2004.

The document “Aleph Sources for NCES Academic Libraries Survey” is available via Footprints as Public Solution #6363. 

  — Natalie

p-custom-50, Circulation Statistics by Item, is once again available in Aleph. I want to thank the Oracle database administrators ITEC for their expertise in diagnosing the problem and modifying the sql so that it runs more efficiently. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this matter.

 – Natalie

p-custom-50, Circulation Statistics by Item, has been temporarily removed from Aleph due to oracle errors.  ITEC will be helping me modify the program.  In the meantime, you might try using ret-adm-01, Items / General Retrieval Form.  That may be useful in some situations.  My apologies for the inconvenience.

  — Natalie

The OLIS is happy to announce that 9 new custom reports are now available:

Reports for cataloging cleanup:

    These services create a list of bib system numbers for bibliographic records that meet the criteria. Other Aleph reports/services can be used to refine and/or print results or perform global changes.

    Cataloging / Services / Custom Services - Cataloging
         * Bib records (non-deleted) with no ADM or HOL record (custom-35)
         * Bib records (non-deleted) with no HOL records (custom-36)
         * Bib records (non-deleted) with no ADM record (custom-37)

    Circulation / Services / Items
         * Item records not linked to any HOL record (custom-38)
Reports for OPAC Stats:

    These custom services replace the current web-based OPAC Stats created by Nathan Fixler at OLIS.  Starting with this announcement, campuses will use the new custom services for OPAC Stats and will no longer use the web-based stats that had been provided by OLIS. The Custom Services can report on OPAC activity from the beginning of v16.
    
    Cataloging / Services / Custom Services - OPAC Stats
         * OPAC Stats - Visits – Monthly (custom-60) — This service reports the total number of OPAC visits for each month within the specified year.
         * OPAC Stats - Visits – Daily (custom-61) — This service reports the total number of OPAC visits for each day within the specified month.
         * Web OPAC Search Strings - Word Searches (custom-62) — This service counts and reports the search strings used in Word searches within the specified period of time.
         * Web OPAC Search Strings - Scan Searches (custom-63) — This service counts and reports the search strings used in Scan/Browse searches within the specified period of time.
Job to provide circulation data for WorldCat Collection Analysis:

    Circulation / Services / Custom - Circ Reports and Jobs
         * WorldCat Collection Analysis - Circ Extract (custom-70) — This service produces a file to be sent to OCLC for the WorldCat Collection Analysis - Circulation Analysis. This file can be sent to OCLC without any further modification.

         NOTE:  This job will NOT produce usable results until after p_manage_70 is run for your campus.  The schedule is available on olisdocs:  http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/olisdocs/public/Aleph/p_manage_07_sched_Oct2008.xls

   — Natalie 

Over the next few weeks, the OLIS will be enriching the z13 (short bib) record to include the OCLC number and the LDR from the bib record.  This will permit additional functionality for current and future projects.

New lines will be added to tab22 this week.  Beginning next week, p_manage_07 will be run in the 01 library of each campus (both /dev and /prod) to create the new z13 records.  It is expected that campuses will be down less than 30 minutes while p_manage_07 is running.

A schedule for running p_manage_07  is available in olisdocs at:

 http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/olisdocs/public/Aleph/p_manage_07_sched_Oct2008.xls

If you have any questions, please submit them via Footprints.

Thank you.

   — Natalie