2025 EBSCO User Group

Total Duration: 7 hours (1 hour lunch break included)
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Description:
EBSCO Discovery Service and Full Text Finder play an integral role in providing discovery and access for your library resources. Join EBSCO trainers, Jaime Barrilleaux and Lisa Jones, and SaaS Manager Don Brown, as they guide you through a health check of these systems, emphasizing key areas that you need to maintain as an administrator.
This workshop is targeted toward existing EBSCO Discovery Service and Full Text Finder subscribers and focuses on system administration and maintenance.
Full Text Finder plays a vital role in the discovery and access of your full-text resources. We will review how to manage your collection in Holdings Management, how to test and review your access through the links powered by Holdings Management, and how to optimize the search experience through Publication Finder.
For Full Text Finder, we will review how to create, maintain, and evaluate your holdings in Holdings Management. We will review options for configuring Publication Finder. We will also review how to maintain your Full Text Finder links, including where to check link behavior and settings.
The health of your EBSCO Discovery Service, and the services it integrates with, is vital to the discovery of your resources. We will review key areas of control and maintenance in EBSCOadmin and EBSCO Experience Manager to ensure your software is optimized.
For EBSCO Discovery Service, we will review search options, metadata, and linking choices.  We will also explore the EBSCO configuration module within EBSCO Experience Manager to learn about interface customizations and integration options.
EBSCO Presenters:

• Lisa Jones, Senior Customer Training Specialist
• Jaime Barrilleaux, Senior Customer Training Specialist
• Don Brown, SaaS Manager

Learning Objectives:

1. Configure authentication options.
2. Manage and update collections in Holdings Management.
3. Optimize search experience for Publication Finder and EDS.
4. Configure settings for FTF link resolver.
5. Review and configure EDS search options and results page linking options.
6. Optimize EDS for branding, navigation, and integrations.
7. Manage searchable metadata including catalog/institutional repository, EBSCO databases, and partner metadata.

Resources needed: Laptop