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General information

  • Record identifiers such as ISBN or OCLC are sent to book cover providers, which return an image that is displayed in the Primo search results.
  • Most covers come from

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  • Google, followed by Syndetics. 
  • Records that are part of  Scanned Key Content via DRS deposits have book covers chosen by staff. These take precedence over covers provided by other sources.
  • For any journals that are supported by Browzine, we use the cover images from Browzine, which are based on an ISSN match. 

How to tell who is supplying the image

  • It is not necessary to complete this step.
  • If you would like to skip this step. start with the next section: Google Books Troubleshooting. 
  • You can right-click on

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  • the book cover in your browser and "Inspect Element" to see the source of the image.

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  • In this example, the cover comes from Google:

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Google

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Books Troubleshooting

Use Google Direct Links (below) to see if Google associates the right metadata/cover with the identifiers in our record. HOLLIS sends multiple identifiers to Google: OCLC, ISBN, LCCN, in that order. The first one that returns an image from Google is used in the HOLLIS display

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OCLC number

ISBN

LCCN


Sample message to Google when the error is on their end

Subject: book cover for wrong book

When we send this identifier to Google: 

(insert direct link)

Google returns an image for a different book. The image Google is providing shows the book title "XXX." But the identifier (insert type and number here, e.g. OCLC 1234) is for an entirely different resource: "YYY."


Syndetics Troubleshooting

You can verify precisely which parameters are sent to a provider by inspecting the Network traffic in the browser's developer tools. When doing so, make sure you search by unique identifier such that you get only a single search result, otherwise your Network traffic will show image requests for all records on the search result page. 

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Journals via Browzine

For any journals that are supported by Browzine, we use the cover images from Browzine, which are based on an ISSN match. 

Custom covers

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