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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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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
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So Many Starting Points
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Subject A&I
(PubMed, WoS,
Scopus)
Web Gateway
(Ingenta, A
gent
gateway, porta
l)
Search E
ngine
(Google)
Library Gateway
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
JnlsDatabase
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!
