Working with library search platforms
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A paper that discusses the benefits to publishers of making sure they work with the library web scale discovery (resource discovery services, or RDS). Also discusses conflict for secondary publishers, A&Is in working with RDS.
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- 1. Simon Inger Consulting Working with Library Search Platforms? HighWire January 2011 Meeting This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
- 2. www.sic.ox14.com So Many Starting Points Slide 2 E-Journals
- 3. www.sic.ox14.com 30 July, 2013 3 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 45.0% Google Yahoo DOI Others Others Others Others Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Library Typical Referrers
- 4. www.sic.ox14.com Most users still arrive at a publisher’s web site from another web site or a link in an email (or RSS) and not from navigating their way around the publisher’s site. There are lots of places to start the navigation, but in aggregate, the library web sites seem to account for a lot of the traffic 30 July, 2013 4
- 5. www.sic.ox14.com Unique Role of Library Web Pages The only starting point with knowledge (across multiple publisher sites) of what the user is licensed to read Technologies heavily integrated with other starting points too Individually, libraries make up a tiny proportion of referrals to publisher web sites, but in aggregate they are very significant indeed 30 July, 2013 5
- 6. www.sic.ox14.com Gateway to local and subscribed content
- 8. www.sic.ox14.com Primo 3 with bX article recommendations
- 9. www.sic.ox14.com Web Scale Discovery for Primary Publishers Enhances discoverability of publisher content – Users are linked out to full text on publisher web site Diminishes the case for the publisher web site as a starting point 30 July, 2013 9
- 10. www.sic.ox14.com Web Scale Discovery for A&I Publishers Since discovery products only index the subscribed content, this must reinforce the value of the data in the index, and perhaps help guarantee the viability of the index itself Loss of brand – only the data, and not the starting point itself, will be seen. – Users link out from discovery product to full text – Users get only a subset of the functionality of specialist search 30 July, 2013 10
- 11. www.sic.ox14.com Web Scale Discovery for the Library Potentially a very powerful tool that helps cement the library’s role in information discovery Still lots of competition! 30 July, 2013 11
- 12. Simon Inger Consulting Thank You. simon@sic.ox14.com +44 7977 237550 30 July, 2013 12
Editor's Notes
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- I own the full text content, so I’m alright thank you!
- Difficult choice for A&I publishers indeed – more competitor than collaborator? Dumbing down of data