Download - It’S All About Stuff (Online Info Dec 09)
It’s all about stuff
Why it’s not just aboute-books (or e-journals)
any longer.
…readers
As publishers, vendors, aggregators or librarians, our job is all about getting stuff from authors to …
And this is how it was done, pre-internet . . .
Quality Filter
Published Object
Supply Chain
Discovery, Delivery
Book
Article
Grey stuff
small%
large%
tiny%
Quality Filter
Published Object
Supply Chain
Discovery, Delivery
Book
Article
Grey stuff
small%
large%
Quality Filter
Published Object
Supply Chain
Discovery, Delivery
Book
Article
small%
large%
Grey stuff
tiny%
>>>%
Meanwhile . . .Publishers, Vendors,
Aggregators and Librarians were busily . . .
A&I & subject portals
Publishers
Library portalsContent Aggregators
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
IngentaConnect
. . . linking scholarly Sites for Journals and Books to create . . .
. . . A scholarly information network of ebooks and ejournals . . .
Cool!
A&I & subject portals
Publishers
Library portals
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
IngentaConnect
Content Aggregators
. . . A ‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . .
ScienceDirect
OPACs
GreyStuff
But I want the grey stuff as well as ebooks and ejournals!. . . A
‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . .
And now you have it!
ScienceDirect
OPACs
GreyStuff
Networked ebooks and ejournals
Periodicals Books Working Papers
Data Podcasts
Book
Article
Data
Working Paper
Podcast
File types
Very Cool!
Issues - 1
Quality
FilterGrey Stuff needs to go
through a quality filter too!
Issues - 2
SupplyChai
nGrey Stuff needs metadata to the same standards as
ebooks and ejournals.
Quality Filter
Published Object
Supply Chain
Discovery, Delivery
Book
Article
Grey stuff
large%
small%
Quality stuff
(books, articles,
data etc)
This is why it’s all about Stuff (and not just about ebooks or ejournals)
Unfiltered Grey stuff