working with library search platforms

Simon Inger Consulting

Working with Library Search Platforms?

HighWire January 2011 Meeting

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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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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

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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!

Simon Inger Consulting

Thank You.

simon@sic.ox14.com

+44 7977 237550

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