New Library Catalog offers better electronic resource access for science users

The Library is implementing a new catalog this summer and it is presently available for beta testing at catalog.lib.uchicago.edu. It provides many new features including a better display of electronic access for journals and ebooks.

Electronic access to both journals and books is now displayed in search results:

The catalog also offers suggested search terms for search queries:

Additional features include the display of the current availability of items on the search results page.

My Account features, such as emailing, saving, and exporting records are still be developed in the new catalog.  Unfortunately, lists created by users of the current Catalog and MyDiscoveries records saved by users of Lens cannot be migrated to the new Library Catalog.  The Library will soon post instructions on how users can export these records, and users will have at least until the end of June to do so.

Please share your comments with us on the feedback form, also available from the Catalog header. We are particularly interested in your feedback regarding visual design and layout, organization of results and records, ease and effectiveness of search construction, and the quality and ranking of results.

A short video introduction to the new catalog is also available as well as more information about the new catalog.