GALILEO Quick Search Alert

A new federated search option Quick Search (beta) is available on the GALILEO homepage. It offers an exciting, streamlined approach for mining some scholarly resources and I invite you to test it, but *please* delay using the Save/Export to Endnote or RefWorks options for your search results.

There are two serious lacks in the Quick Search Save/Export function:

1. All references export as Generic reference type -- and Generic cannot style correctly in *any* style, not even the most popular ones like APA, MLA, etc.

2. No keywords or abstracts will export...only the basic bibliographic data. We need the keywords/abstract as access points to retrieve appropriate references from our Endnote libraries in the future.

The development team at the software providers of the Quick Search option is hard at work on a fix for these problems. Princeton University is testing their solutions, so I hope a complete export will be available soon. The software providers are committed to fast-tracking the implementation, vendor by vendor, when the enhanced functionality is confirmed.

Until the Quick Search improves with Endnote (and I'll let you know when that occurs) please continue to use the native interface with each database available from the input box or pulldown menus on the GALILEO homepage. This will insure you receive all the data and features to exploit the value of both Endnote and GALILEO.

Also, the first phase of Quick Search is utilizing databases which have the capacity for the federated search model and are available at institutions throughout the state. In phase two (the coming fiscal year), more UGA-specific licensed databases will be folded in so don't panic if your favorite resource isn't listed. . .hopefully it'll show up in phase two implementation.

Read more about GALILEO Quick Search and Upgrade Project here.