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Discovery
Discovery and access are critical to driving usage to licensed content. Following discovery-related industry standards and collaborating with library solutions partners are instrumental parts of improving discovery. Wiley maintains its commitment to the seamless integration of published content into local systems, in order to promote library sanctioned discovery. Please see the information below, which outlines the extent of Wiley's discovery practices and partnerships with library solutions vendors.
Discovery Services
Web-scale discovery services (or discovery layers) are tools that search across institutional collections and provide relevance-ranked results. They are used in libraries around the world to help augment licensed content discovery and provide multiple entrance points to users. To create a less complicated experience for library workflows and user searches, Wiley has partnered with various discovery vendors for the benefit of our mutual customers.
Below is a table explaining the extent to which chapter- and article-level Wiley content is indexed with these discovery vendors:
Vendor | Product Name | Wiley eJournals (Frontfile and Backfile) | Wiley Online Books | Wiley Reference Works * | Wiley Digital Archives | The Cochrane Library |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EBSCO |
EDS |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
in progress |
✔ |
OCLC |
WorldCat Discovery |
✔ |
✔ |
in progress |
in progress |
✔ |
ProQuest / Ex Libris |
Primo ** |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
in progress |
✔ |
ProQuest / Ex Libris |
Summon ** |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
in progress |
✔ |
TDNet |
TDNet Discover |
✔ |
✔ |
in progress |
|
in progress |
* Applies to all reference work content hosted on the Wiley Online Library platform.
** For customers using the Central Discovery Index (CDI). Customers not using the CDI may find that not all content is yet indexed.
Discovery Service Resources
The following guides have been developed in collaboration with our vendor partners. They will help assist with the configuration of Wiley content within their respective discovery layers:
MARC Records
MARC is the acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. It defines a data format by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information, and its data elements make up the foundation of most library online public access catalogs used today. These can simply be defined as electronic versions of "cards" in library card catalogs. They are a focal point of monograph discovery and are critical for libraries who want to help multiple entry points to online book content.
Institutions that have purchased Online Books or Electronic Major Reference Works are entitled to receive free MARC records through Wiley's MARC record partner, OCLC. These full-level bibliographic records include key metadata elements that drive discovery such as; table of contents, book summaries, Library of Congress subject headings, call numbers and more. In order to receive these records at no additional charge, users must take a few steps to set up a direct holdings feed with OCLC. Once completed, customers are able to receive records seamlessly, through the Collection Manager platform.
Web Scale Discovery
Wiley has partnered with scholarly search engines, Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar, and Semantic Scholar to send article-level metadata, as a means of promoting content discovery outside of the library. This is a regular feed of data, where our search engine partners receive daily feeds of newly published titles to their indexes.
Wiley also sends institutional holdings information to Google Scholar, to help drive users to the version of record. So if a user is authenticated, they should see the result for Wiley Online Library or The Cochrane Library at the top of their available access options.
Federated Search
The Wiley Federated Search API is a free application allowing searches for Wiley Online Library content to return results on a local website. Institutions can submit search requests using Search/Retrieval via URL (SRU), a standard protocol that provides an HTTP REST API for search queries. SRU is the evolution of Z39.50, using HTTP instead of the custom Z39.50 communications protocol. Literatum supports SRU version 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 (which provides support for facets and other features).
Journal content searches can be performed using a variety of fields, including article and journal titles, authors, publication dates and keywords. Results can be displayed for the search, including a link to the full text of the article on Wiley Online Library, on their website. The service is free to use and does not require registration. Since the purpose of the API is to drive usage to the full-text articles, institutions are encouraged to always include the full-text link to Wiley content as part of their search results.
The table below lists fields available through the Search API and which fields can be used for searching, display, and sorting. By default, results are sorted by relevancy.
Field | Search | Display | Sort |
---|---|---|---|
Article Title | ✔ | ✔ | |
Journal / Book Title | ✔ | ✔ | |
ISSN / ISBN | ✔ | ||
DOI | ✔ | ✔ | |
Article Title | ✔ | ✔ | |
Publication date | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Author / Editor | ✔ | ✔ | |
Content type | ✔ | ||
Keyword / Subject | ✔ | ||
Abstract | ✔ | ✔ | |
URL link to Wiley full text | ✔ | ||
Language | ✔ | ||
All fields (Full Text) | ✔ |
For instructions on federated search implementation, please use the Wiley Online Library SRU guide.
NISO - ODI Checklist
Wiley is an active NISO member and has gone to considerable lengths to comply with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI).
ODI conformance is an industry-wide discovery practice which helps provide transparency and allows libraries to assess how content providers share their product level information. It is also a technical recommendation for metadata exchange such as data formats, methods of delivery, usage reporting, and frequency of updates.
KBART files
KBART is an acronym for KnowledgeBase And Related Tools. It is a NISO recommended practice that allows for a standardized method of displaying title lists and was originally developed for link resolver vendors. Now the uses for KBART span widely into electronic resource management, and content integration with vendor knowledgebases is critical.
For access to our KBART collections, please visit this page:
To make workflows easier for customers, Wiley has partnered with the following vendors in sharing title lists for its standard saleable packages following the KBART Phase II recommended practice: