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.

1. Simon Inger Consulting
Working with Library
Search Platforms?
HighWire January 2011 Meeting
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So Many Starting Points
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E-Journals

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Typical Referrers

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 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
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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
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Gateway to local and subscribed content

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Web-Scale Discovery
Web
service
Books Jnls
Database
Web
service
Books
Jnls
Database
Metadata
Optimized
Database

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Primo 3 with bX article recommendations

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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
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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
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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!
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12. Simon Inger Consulting
Thank You.
simon@sic.ox14.com
+44 7977 237550
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