CDI Best Practices (From Ex Libris)

Below are three slides used in the Ex Libris presentation on CDI from March 2, 2021. These are the best practices they suggest for Search Rights and for Full Text Linking. Also, the use of A&I databases has changed so that slide is also included here. Ex Libris has published a Knowledge Center page on the best practices for activation in CDI.

Link-in-Record full text links:

When the CDI collection is a link-in-record, the full text links may come from an active Alma e-collection instead of the CDI link-in-record.

For example, in the new DOAJ link-in-record collection, if the full text is available from an active Alma e-collection, such as EBSCO, ProQuest, or Gale, that link will appear instead of the the direct link coming from link-in-record.

If there are no full text options, then the link-in-record link will appear.

Hybrid CDI collections:

“Over the past few months, our Discovery Operations team has been working diligently to convert many CDI feeds to the Hybrid Linking method, enabling a more dynamic approach for linking based on the availability of relevant metadata.

We are happy to report that over 500 million records have already been transitioned as part of this major project to improve your linking experience, reaching over 100 collections by the end of September.

For more information on the hybrid linking method and other collection types, please see these two relevant articles: Hybrid Collections in CDI, and CDI Collections Types and how to activate them for discovery.”

Here is the webinar on Hybrid CDI Collections.