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Data for Discovery
The benefits of personalizing discovery are already playing themselves out in the consumer space, suggesting tremendous opportunities for using data to personalize the research process. Given the scale...
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Personalizing Discovery without Sacrificing Serendipity
A researcher’s core interests may be in a specific set of areas, but effective discovery also helps that researcher to stay aware of adjacent areas of interest or even potential areas of unknown...
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Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researchers’ Access to E-Resources
Content providers operate in the systems ecosystem of the licensing academic library, but they have been challenged to integrate their offerings as seamlessly into this ecosystem as would benefit...
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Discovery and Access in Light of the Ebola Outbreak
Several researchers recently “stumbled across” an article indicating the reasonable likelihood that Liberia would be faced with cases of Ebola. Public health officials had not acted on this known...
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Maintaining Relationships with Readers as They Cross Affiliations
Researchers’ multiple and changing institutional affiliations create tangible challenges, both for the researchers themselves and for scholarly publishers as well. Continue reading →
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Grab and Go and the Gravitational Pull of Discovery
A look at Facebook's Instant Article initiative and what it means for discovery and for publishers. Continue reading →
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Thinking Through the Lit Review: Part 1: The Quest for Comprehensiveness
I have been tracking one kind of discovery - what I will call the quest for comprehensiveness - that is widespread among researchers but seems comparatively quiescent in professional discussion about...
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Thinking Through the Lit Review: Part 2: Repackaging the Review Article
The review article follows narrative conventions similar to other journal articles limiting its value in many types of discovery processes. Could the review article's organization and analysis of the...
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Block that PC! Forcing Your Organization to Engage the Mobile User Experience
Publishers and libraries do not completely understand how changing information consumption patterns, especially in the transition to mobile, should affect their product, infrastructure, and...
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A Single User Account
Academics’ expectations for user experience are set not by reference to improvements relative to the past but increasingly in comparison with their experiences on consumer internet services and mobile...
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Transitioning to a More Unified Platform
Combining most if not all of a publisher’s scholarly content on a single publisher platform has not always been the norm. Oxford University Press's transition to a new platform represents not just a...
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Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources
The user experience of working with e-journals and ebooks in an academic setting has failed to keep up with changing practices and preferences for how researchers now expect to access the scholarly...
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The Objectives and Organization of Scholarly Communications Functions in...
Academic libraries today invest in scholarly communication in a variety of ways, pursuing an array of objectives and taking on a variety of roles. The variety of objectives that academic libraries have...
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Improving Privacy by Rethinking Architecture
Today, we grapple with privacy issues as consumers, as citizens, and as voters. As an industry, we should be thinking about how to draw not only on policy but also on technical architecture to balance...
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Co-opting “Official” Channels through Infrastructures for Openness
Last week, the news broke about a new service called DOAI that is designed to support open access. It is not a publishing model or a repository but rather a type of infrastructure. When a user inputs a...
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How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications
A new survey looks at the ways readers discover scholarly publications. Due to methodological limitations, scholarly information professionals should practice caution in interpreting the findings and...
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Will the Monograph Experience a Transition to E-Only? Latest Findings.
Although journals, other serials, and reference have made a large scale transition away from print, we must not assume that the same path will inevitably be pursued for other components of collections....
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Elsevier Acquires SSRN
Today, Elsevier is announcing that it has acquired SSRN, the preprint and publishing community that focuses on social sciences and law. Among other things, the SSRN acquisition is another step in...
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Rethinking Authentication, Revamping the Business
IP authentication is the most important mechanism for authorizing access to licensed e-resources resources. Substantial business and policy issues for libraries and publishers alike connect up to IP...
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Building a Repository in Partnership with Elsevier: The University of...
The University of Florida and Elsevier have entered into a partnership to build links between the institutional repository and ScienceDirect, which has received quite a bit of criticism in recent...
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