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- 1. Should there be an app for that? Scholarly journals on mobile devices
- 2. Everyone wants the Library on their mobile device Smartphones are owned by 83% of college-aged adults Tablets are owned by 42% of adults Surveys and studies report that students at all levels are interested in conducting research on their mobile devices Not just the catalog!
- 3. Standards for mobile sites Standards developed by the experts: the W3C, World Wide Web Consortium Led by Tim Berners-Lee, with 400+ members including Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Dell Sony Standards for Web Applications on Mobile (2014) Test your site at the Mobile Validator
- 4. Options for delivering scholarly journals to a mobile device iTunes and Android apps iPad Newsstand offers thousands of individual journal apps Third-party apps including BrowZine and Flipster Web apps that launch mobile-specific site Responsive design - resize depending on the detected screen
- 5. Could you do your professional reading on a mobile device?
- 6. Investigation of the top 25 Library & Information Science journals Combined prestige and citation count lists Included top circulating titles Testing devices included iPhone 4S and iPad mini iTunes or Android app Mobile site or web app Responsive design to resize screen for device Study conducted September - October 2014
- 7. What Journals Do You Read? Tell Me! PollEv.com/lindawobbe (poll is closed) Two Library & Information Science journals you read Have you ever tried reading them on a mobile device?
- 8. The app option: 16% Four of the top 25 Library & Information Science journals have an app: The Chronicle of Higher Education, College & Research Libraries, JASIST, Library Journal
- 9. App functionality Authentication – must use the regular site to create an account Platform - Two of the apps aren’t available for the iPhone, only the iPad Functionality – Return to full site, save articles, don’t need the internet after download, change font, email Readability - beautiful
- 10. BrowZine 76% another app option 19 of the top 25 journals are included now, with 2 more coming soon Subscribers: select your institution and use standard authentication from within the app. Open Access: College & Research Libraries, select Open Access Only and create a BrowZine account. Download from the App Store: Apple Android Platform: iPhone or iPad Print, email, share, social media links Save, mark as read; off-internet reading
- 11. Mobile site or web app: 36% Nine of the top 25 Library & Information Science journals are hosted on sites employing a mobile-specific site or web app: • Aslib Journal of Information Management, Journal of Documentation: Emerald • Collection Management; Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services : Taylor & Francis. • College & Research Libraries News: Highwire. • Journal of Information Science: SAGE. • Journal of Medical Internet Research: open access • Journal of the Medical Library Association: PubMedCentral • Library Quarterly: Univ Chicago/JSTOR
- 12. Mobile site or web app authentication Authentication – most launch the mobile site when you login AND offer pairing Pairing can be overly complex Pairing expires JSTOR’s nice model: Navigate to the JSTOR site through your library, OR bookmark the web app and use the “Get Access” link to select your institution and authenticate using your standard authentication protocol. A voucher is a code that will tie your mobile device to your institution’s subscriptions. This voucher will grant you access to protected content while not on your institution’s network. Each mobile device must be vouched for individually and vouchers are only valid for the publisher for which it is issued. 2. Why am I unable to obtain a mobile voucher from my mobile device? In order to request a mobile voucher, you must first be recognized as being part of an institutional subscription. Simply connect your mobile device to your institution’s network and then begin the process to obtain a voucher. To obtain a voucher for your mobile device, follow these steps: Put your device on your institution’s network and open the mobile journal site that you would like to obtain a voucher for (for example, http://m.abs.sagepub.com) Select “Authorize this Device” Complete the “Authenticate Mobile Device for SAGE Journals” form and click Submit Copy the voucher code provided on the next screen and click on URL provided Enter the voucher code and select “Get access” This process will obtain and apply the voucher directly to your mobile device. If you are still unable to obtain a mobile voucher, you are either not on your institution’s network or your institution does not have a subscription to that particular publication. Please consult your university or institutional librarian for more information. 3. How do I obtain a Voucher Code with another computer and apply it to my device? You can obtain a mobile voucher from any computer on your institution’s network. Simply visit: http://online.sagepub.com/voucher/get Fill out the form and you will receive a voucher code both on-screen and by email (be sure to tick the box “Send voucher by email”. You will have 48 hours to apply this voucher to your device before it expires. To apply the voucher to your mobile device, follow these steps: Open up the mobile journal site that you would like to apply a voucher to Select “Authorize this Device” Select “Apply a mobile voucher” Enter the code and submit
- 13. Mobile site or web app readability Readability – PDF’s best HTML lots of funny situations
- 14. Mobile site or web app functionality Functionality – lots!
- 15. Common Icons Table of Contents Share, email, print New web page View all open pages Bookmark
- 16. Mobile optimized responsive design: 48% Twelve of the top 25 Library & Information Science journals are hosted on sites employing a responsive design • American Libraries, American Library Association, open access • Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Wiley. • D - Lib Magazine: the magazine of digital library research. Open Access • Library Resources & Technical Services, Reference & User Services Quarterly: American Library Association, MetaPress. • Library Trends: Johns Hopkins Project MUSE. • Libri: international journal of libraries and information services: De Gruyter Saur. • Journal of Academic Librarianship, Library & Information Science Research, Information Processing and Management, Government Information Quarterly: Pergamon / Elsevier ScienceDirect.
- 17. Responsive Design functionality Authentication: No problem! Navigate to the regular site and use standard login Often three sizes: computer, tablet, phone Native site functionality Readability? PDF’s are fine; HTML can be silly
- 18. Responsive Design authentication Association publications from ALA hosted on MetaPress require a convoluted process to register for access. Even after you have logged in and are identified as a registered member, you have to input a code comprised of the association’s initials and your ALA member number with leading zeroes to make a 7- digit number
- 20. Aggregator option: 56% 14 of the 25 journals investigated are available on at least one aggregator platform. EBSCO and Gale have Apple and Android apps. EBSCO, Gale and ProQuest all offer responsive design
- 21. Confused? Oh my gosh, how would we ever communicate all these options to our users and assist with their use? Authentication Device Recognition
- 22. Your Advice for Publishers! Tell Me! PollEv.com/lindawobbe Or Text 286313 and your message to 37607 Which model do you prefer? Native app like Newsstand or BrowZine WebApp mobile-specific site Responsive design Anything else you want to tell publishers about mobile design!
- 23. Thank you! Slides will be posted on SlideShare Paper will be in the Proceedings and linked from the Slideshare Questions or comments?
- 24. References Barnett-Ellis, P., & Vann, C. (2014). The library right there in my hand: Determining user needs for mobile services at a medium-sized regional university. Southeastern Librarian, 62(2), 10-15. Retrieved from OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Caniano, W., & Catalano, A. (2014). Academic libraries and mobile devices: User and reader preferences. Reference Librarian, 55(4), 298-317. doi: 10.1080/02763877.2014.929910 Manzari, Laura (2013). Library and information science journal prestige as assessed by library and information science faculty. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 83, (1), 42-60. doi: 10.1086/668574 Nixon, J. M. (2014). Core journals in library and information science: Developing a methodology for ranking LIS journals. College & Research Libraries, 75(1), 66-90. doi: 10.5860/crl12-387 Pew Research Internet Project(2014). Mobile technology fact sheet. Retrieved October 29, 2014, from http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/ W3C (2010). MobileOK checker, version 1.4.2. Retrieved October 3, 2014 from http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ W3C (2104). Standards for web applications on mobile: Current state and roadmap. Retrieved October 29, 2014 from http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/ Xia, J. (2012). Positioning open access journals in a LIS journal ranking. College & Research Libraries, 73(2), 134-145. doi: 10.5860/crl-234
Editor's Notes
- Thank you all for making your way beyond the Francis Marion! I need to apologize that the abstract for my presentation was overly ambitious. I won’t be talking about e-books on mobile devices, with their entertaining Digital Rights Management and Adobe Digital Editions frustrations. Obviously that would be a fruitful area to explore. Instead, I’ve investigated and will present today and in the conference proceedings, the current state of scholarly journals on mobile devices. And, I will gather your input and advice and post that in this presentation on Slideshare and in the proceedings.
- Why do we care how scholarly information is displayed on mobile devices? The Pew Research Internet Project (2014) Mobile Technology Fact Sheet reports that 83% of the 18-29 age group owns smart phones, and other surveys show higher numbers. Pew also reports tablets are owned by 42% of adults. Published studies by many libraries (Barnett-Ellis & Vann, 2014; Caniano & Catalano, 2014) report that students want to use their phones to access library resources. And they don’t just mean the catalog! We have mobile-ized our Library web sites and publishers are trying to rise to the challenge, too.
- Just for fun you might check how well your Library is meeting the need for mobile-ready web sites. There are easy-to-understand standards, guidelines, and training at the W3C World Wide Web Consortium, headed by Tim Berners-Lee and all the titans of the high-tech universe. Every book and article on the topic of designing mobile sites, including everything I found on the topic of designing library web apps and mobile sites refers to these standards (W3C, 2014). The W3C (2010) mobile validator allows you to paste in a web address or even a segment of code to test how mobile-ready it is. They also have a cross-walk between the mobile-ready and accessibility standards.
- Assuming users can navigate to your scholarly journals using your Library’s mobile-ready site, let’s find out how publishers are managing to deliver that scholarly content to your phones. Publishers, hosting services, and aggregated database providers employ three strategies for delivering scholarly journals to mobile devices. 1.Native apps designed for apple and android devices, including thousands of individual journal apps, and third-party apps that host multiple journals, such as BrowZine and Flipster. 2. Web apps or mobile-specific sites that launch when a mobile device is detected 3. Responsive design that resizes the layout depending on the detected screen size
- What about you? You are a library user! As libraries have converted their print journal collections to online journal collections, we have been forcing online journal browsing and reading to electronic devices. Let’s find out how that works for us.
- I investigated the top 25 Library & Information Science Journals. The list is a combination of the top titles reported in several studies, including Manzari’s prestige study (2013) Nixon’s (2014) study that combined prestige and citation rankings, Xia’s 2012 study that includes open access journals, and my own study of the most highly-circulated library and information science journals. I included one outlier, Chronicle of Higher Education, which was mentioned in several studies but generally thrown out as off-topic. I assumed it would be highly read, so decided to include it, too. Publishers and hosting sites include Emerald, Taylor&Francis, Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, Wiley, University of Chicago/JSTOR, deGruyter, SAGE, Highwire, and MetaPress. One thing to note: yes these journals are all available in online formats. I tested their mobile-readiness using my sort of old iPhone, and my non-standard tablet, an iPad mini. Might as well give the vendors a challenge!
- I’m hoping that the study I did includes the Library & Information Science journals you read. But let me find out! Please respond to this simple poll at my poll everywhere account PollEv.com/lindawobbe OR text 1115929 and your message to 37607
- Three of the four are iTunes Newsstand apps. One, College & Research Libraries is open access, and can be used through BrowZine. None of the Library and Information Science journals I investigated are available on the Flipster model. I’ll mention Boopsie, too. Boopsie offers mobile integration of catalog, LibGuides, and some aggregator content at the moment, but none of the Library and Information Science publishers I was investigating.
- Authentication: Except for the open access case, you need a pre-existing account created on the regular non-mobile site. The example is a JASIST article from Wiley. For Wiley/JASIST, you need to enable roaming under your profile on the regular site, which expires after 3 months. Wiley says they have apps for all of their journals, but I didn’t find that to be 100% true. Platform: Two of the apps are only for the iPad, so can’t be used on a phone: Chronicle of Higher Education & Library Journal Functionality includes lots of features; readability is perfect for the newsstand apps.
- Libraries can subscribe to BrowZine and make journals from about 100 publishers available on a mobile device including Emerald, Elsevier, deGruyter, Highwire, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, plus many open-access publications. Authentication is straight-forward, using standard credentials, functionality includes what you most expect to see, and off-line reading is possible after downloading an issue. The example is a C&RL article on my iPhone. The focus is scholarly journals, so American Libraries, Library Journal, College & Research Libraries News and Chronicle of Higher Education are not scheduled for inclusion. Search is not a current feature.
- 36% of the top 25 Library & Information Science journals studies employ a mobile-specific site, or web app. That includes Taylor&Francis, as my colleague here described, Emerald, Highwire, SAGE, JSTOR, PubMedCentral and Highwire. The example is SAGE Journal of Information Science on my iPhone.
- Authentication: How would you know what the authentication method is? Pairing can be overly complex, and expires. These are SAGE’s instructions, Journal of Information Science; though I found SAGE to work perfectly without pairing after signing in on the regular site using library credentials. We have authorized the mobile domains in our EZ Proxy tables. Platform: Some that do launch the mobile site on the iPad shouldn’t, as it isn’t sized properly Readability: pdf’s can be opened in iBooks for off-internet reading; and shared, printed, emailed, with all the iPad’s functionality
- Readability:on left: PubMed Central Journal of the Medical Library Association, right to left, many page turns to get through an article Readability: pdf’s can be opened in iBooks for off-internet reading; and shared, printed, emailed, with all the iPad’s functionality; on the right, Emerald Journal of Documentation on the iPad mini
- Functionality: Highwire: C&RL News on iPhone; T&F: Collection Management on IPad Functionality: pdf’s can be opened in iBooks for off-internet reading; and shared, printed, emailed, with all the iPad’s functionality
- Here are standard features available on iPhones and iPads that you can take advantage of.
- 48% of the journals studied are hosted on sites that employ responsive design. This includes open access journals American Libraries and D-Lib; Wiley, Project MUSE, deGruyter, Elsevier and MetaPress. Sometimes the response isn’t appropriate for the screen. The example is American Libraries, admittedly, it is an Open Access title, displaying strangely on my iPad mini.
- Small laptop screens, like a MacBook, are sometimes detected as tablets. A small tablet, such as an iPad mini, is sometimes detected as a smartphone. This results in some silly experiences. On left: Elsevier Science Direct Journal of Academic Librarianship on iPhone and D-Lib on iPhone with 1/3 of the screen devoted to ads, navigation or sponsors.
- Societies and associations, though, have their own authentication protocols. The description of ALA’s protocol reveals quite a convoluted process. Once there, though, in this example, is a nicely readable article from ALCTS’ LRTS , which is hosted on MetaPress, on my iPhone.
- Some nice designs, and functionality. Wiley search screen on my iPhone. Journal of the Medical Library Association, hosted on PubMedCentral, on my iPad mini.
- Aggregator apps still exist, though they aren’t widely promoted. The EBSCOhost app is available for either iTunes or Android. After authenticating at the regular site, click the iPhone and Android Applications link, and enter your email address. The Gale Access My Library College Edition is available for iTunes and Android. Use your college email address to register. All three vendors employ responsive design. EBSCO’s and Gale’s responsive design worked well on either of the test devices ,although Gale’s html articles are restricted to a slim column. ProQuest’s site is usable, but very small on an iPhone, but fine on the iPad mini. On the left is EBSCO results screen on the iPhone. On the right, is Gale html full text limited to a slim column on the iPhone.
- Me too! With most mobile apps and mobile-specific sites, authentication doesn’t work like it does on our full website. With Mobile-specific sites and Responsive Design, devices are not accurately detected.
- Tell the publishers your preference! Please respond to this simple poll at my poll everywhere account PollEv.com/lindawobbe OR text 286313 and your message to 37607
- Questions?
- Thank you to all the researchers who provided such excellent background and statistics.