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ELUNA 2023 Developers Day+

du 8 au 9 May 2023

Westin Bonaventure - Avalon / Emerald Bay

Building eTextbooks Portal with Alma and Primo APIs

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 14:45–15:05 PDT
Avalon
Presentation Topic Description

Faculty and students demanded online access to textbooks (eTextbooks) during the COVID pandemic, and the trend toward eTextbooks will keep growing. Users, especially undergraduates, have complained that Primo is slow and complex to find eTextbooks. Can we build an eTextbooks portal that is fast and easy to use? This presentation describes an Oregon State University Libraries project that creates a web application for eTextbooks using Alma and Primo APIs. It will cover the topics:

The eTextbooks portal described in the presentation is a prototype with a plan for further improvement. The major challenge is that Alma and Primo APIs could be more effective in finding either the holding information or access link for an eTextbook using standard bibliographic data like title or ISBN. Besides sharing the methods and lessons learned from the project, the goal of the presentation is to explore ideas for improving Alma and Primo APIs for finding and accessing eTextbooks.

Presenters

Hui Zhang, Oregon State University Libraries and Press
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