Web discovery services: overview in the libraries of Brazilian public higher education institutions

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Fernanda Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cendón, Beatriz Valadares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/81969
• topic: Serviços de descoberta. Descoberta em escala. Metabusca. OPAC. Bibliotecas universitárias.

This work aims to present the contexts, concepts, advantages and limitations of the main approaches for the simultaneous retrieval of information in distinct resources: federated search or metasearch and the web discovery service, presented here as an evolution of the federated search. It also aimed to verify if university libraries in public higher education institutions in Brazil have adhered to the use of web scale discovery services (WSDSs) for a greater visibility of their physical and online collections, thus adapting to the interests of the "Google Generation". The methodology consisted of the identification of Brazilian public higher education institutions through the e-MEC System and, from there, the search of the libraries websites or the library systems of the identified institutions, aiming to point those that use the services of web discovery. The research demonstrated that, even though promising, web-based discovery services are not yet a reality for most libraries of Brazilian public higher education institutions, and reflects on the reasons for the low adherence rate.