What is IDS Search? How will it help me?
Hello all,
The library is pleased to make available a new search and discovery service that will not only replace our old library catalog, Aleph, but also integrate with our interlibrary loan platform and many of our other library resources to improve your access to the scholarly resources you need. This new service was developed by the IDS Project, a mutually supportive resource-sharing cooperative in NY State, and is known as IDS Search.
IDS Search works like this: A search is first performed on Sullivan’s holdings. If no local results are found, the search is then automatically expanded to quick-delivery libraries. If no results are returned at that level, the search is further expanded to worldwide libraries. You can then easily request these items via interlibrary loan by clicking the ‘Get It Now’ button present in the record for every result returned that we don’t have available.
Additionally, using the ‘More Search Options,’ you can push your search out to EBSCO’s Integrated Search (searching all of EBSCO, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, and other sources), ebrary, course reserves, Films on Demand, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Global Issues in Context, Credo Reference, and a title search of our A-Z list of journals.
You can find this new service in the right-hand navigation menu of the library website (http://www.sunysullivan.edu/library/), under Find Books, IDS Search.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you have about this new service.
Matthew R. Smith
Access Services Librarian
Campus Copyright Agent
SUNY Sullivan
845-434-5750 x4226
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