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A guide to configuring the SimplyE Circulation Manager to provide NoveList Select Title Recommendations to the SimplyE mobile clients.
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NoveList Select is a popular service from EBSCO that libraries use to augment their collection discovery by providing recommendations to users. These recommendations are algorithmically determined based on an array of factorsread-alike recommendations are curated by librarians and book experts at NoveList. SimplyE already provides lists of other titles in a library's collection that are in the same series, or by the same author or authors, but NoveList provides linkages to titles and works by others authors and similar items in a library's collection that are less obvious.
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SimplyE piggybacks off your current NoveList Select for Catalog subscription similar title recommendations. The Circulation Manager queries the NoveList API for information about items in your collection using API account credentials NoveList will supply to you (see below). This integration with NoveList Select is only available to librarys libraries which have a currently active NoveList Select for Catalog subscription. If your library currently does not have an active NoveList Select subscription, contact EBSCO at NoveListSelectSupport@ebsco.com for information on starting a subscriptionnovelist@ebsco.com or click the Request Info button on their website's NoveList Select page.
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Obtaining NoveList Select API Credentials
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To request credentials for this integration, remember that your library must have an active NoveList The NoveList integration with SimplyE requires that your library have an active NoveList Select for Catalog subscription with EBSCO. To request API credentials for the SimplyE integration and that you submit a request to NoveList for unique profile credentials related to SimplyE. To get started, contact NoveList Support at NoveListSelectSupport@ebsco.com
, using the using the following subject line and email body. Substitute your library’s name and NoveList Select for Catalog subscription customer ID for (if you know it) for the <CustID> placeholder text. (Your customer ID will have the form snnnnnnn.main.novsel).
To: NoveListSelectSupport@ebsco.com
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Subject: Request for NoveList Select for SimplyE Credentials
We are requesting NoveList Select for SimplyE credentials for <Library Name>. Our EBSCO CustID is: <CustID>. We currently have an active subscription to NoveList Select for Catalog.
Once you have submitted the email request to NoveList Support, you will receive a response with your account's API credentials. When you have the credentials, you can configure the NoveList integration as shown in the next sectionWithin five business days, the NoveList support team will provide you with your unique profile credentials for NoveList Select for SimplyE. When these credentials have been configured in the SimplyE Circulation Manager (as shown below), your collections data will be sent to NoveList automatically at a weekly cadence (Saturday night/Sunday morning). Once the collections data has been received and processed by EBSCO (usually on Monday), you will begin to see collection-specific recommendations in your SimplyE app.
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Once you have SimplyE Circulation Manager installed and you have received API credentials from NoveList, you can use the SimplyE Admin Interface to configure NoveList Select recommendations for your library.
Step 1. Open a web browser and open navigate to your Circulation Manager admin interface (with | |
Step 2. Select Click the System Configuration item on the top right menu bar to enter the Configuration Manager portion of the Admin interface | |
Step 3. Select Click the Metadata from tab in the menu on the left and select left sidebar menu | |
Step 45. From the Protocol drop-down field select NoveList API | |
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Step 7. Once you have submitted the integration configuration, the library's collection will be scheduled to be uploaded to ESBCO/NoveList. You should send an email to NoveListSelectSupport@ebsco.com (with a subject line similar to SimplyE Integration Added) to create a case with their support team indicating the integration has been created. This notification prompts their staff to review the logs after the update for any problems. |
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Once the NoveList integration configuration is complete, a cron task will take care of uploading to EBSCO the required title data run the novelist_update
script, scheduled for midnight (local time to the circ-scripts container) over Saturday/Sunday, which will upload ISBN/title information from the library's catalog. At one point, this process was a manual process where data had to be exported from the library's ILS. The novelist_update
script now takes care of that automaticallycollection to EBSCO. Do be aware that the script only runs once a week, early on Sunday, by default. (You can change that in the /etc/cron.d/circulation
cron file; if so, schedule the upload during off-peak hours to minimize service impact. Checking first with EBSCO support staff is a good idea.)
The NoveList integration with SimplyE requires that you submit a request to NoveList for unique profile credentials related to SimplyE