[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
2011.11.03.charleston.ldi
1. Promoting the ‘Virtuous Circle
of Access’: JSTOR’s local
discovery integration pilot
Bruce Heterick
Vice President
JSTOR | Portico
November 3, 2011
2. Discovery
Get “in the flow” …
o Discovery¹ should be organized around users rather than
collections or systems
o Users are successfully discovering relevant resources through
non-library systems (e.g. general web searches, social networking
applications). We need to make sure that items in our collections
and licensed resources are discoverable in non-library
environments
o Making collections discoverable requires optimizing for access by
local and non-local user populations; being good stewards of our
collections means participating in cooperative ventures that
provide broad access to our collections
¹http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/48258/3/DiscoverabilityPhase1Report.pdf
3. Discovery
“The library” – as a starting point for research – is
a diminishing part of “the flow”
Starting Point for Research, identified by faculty in 2003, 2006, and 2009
100%
90%
2003
80%
2006
70%
2009
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
The library building online librarygeneral-purpose specific engine
Your A catalog A search electronic research resource
Source: ITHAKA 2009 Faculty Survey, 2010
5. Where is discovery happening?
Library
7%
Other
8%
Linking
Partner
10%
Google
56%
JSTOR
19%
Where JSTOR ‘sessions’ originated | Jan 1, 2011 – Oct 29, 2011
6. Where is discovery happening?
Library
#
Other 7% Top „Other‟ Origins
Searches
8% crossref 343,660
Linking wikipedia 118,788
Partner ISI 106,800
10% libhub.sempertool.dk 72,648
Google ucelinks.cdlib.org 68,731
56% www.facebook.com 43,416
JSTOR
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 41,068
19%
philpapers.org 35,907
Where JSTOR ‘sessions’ originated | Jan 1, 2011 – Oct 29, 2011
7. Push; don‟t pull
o The goal should not be about trying to bring
the researcher back to the library; the goal
should be how do we better bring the local
library resources to the researcher from
wherever they happen to begin their
research (including Google)
8. Web-Scale Discovery
How can JSTOR help libraries
better leverage these significant
investments?
9. JSTOR Local Discovery Integration (LDI) Pilot
o April 2011: Initiated JSTOR-Summon
(SerialsSolutions) pilot with Arizona State
Univ., North Carolina State Univ., and Univ.
Sydney
o May 2011: Began JSTOR-Primo (Ex Libris)
pilot with Vanderbilt Univ., Northwestern
Univ., and Oxford Univ.
o June 2011: Begin JSTOR-EDS (EBSCO) pilot
with Univ. Georgia, Millersville Univ., Univ.
Chicago, Univ. Liverpool
o October 2011: Launched JSTOR-WorldCat
(OCLC) pilot with Univ. Arizona and Univ.
Alberta
o January 2012: Evaluate pilot and report to
JSTOR participants at ALA Midwinter meeting
18. JSTOR + EBSCO LDI Pilot
Scott Anderson
Millersville University
19. Preliminary Musings:
o Should they stay or should they go?
Perspective matters.
o Getting data is difficult
What happens AFTER the user leaves JSTOR and enters the
discovery service. Is that a useful hand-off?
o Plato’s Cave:
The lack of transparency in how these services determine
relevancy and ranking, and the impact that they MIGHT be having
on the publishers/resources providing them with the metadata
used to fuel discovery has got to be addressed
NISO Open Discovery Initiative is a start
o Gaming the system
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by publishers/content providers
for these services is inevitable. That isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Notas del editor
A number of organizations had been following this trend closely - including my own (ITHAKA … which is the organizational umbrella under which JSTOR and Portico reside). We were taking a longitudinal look at faculty views about the library – and other pertinent scholarly communications issues – and comparing those view with similar survey data from librarians.One noticeable disconnect in these surveys – as you might imagine – as the perception of the “library as gateway”. Librarians believe it to be hugely important and faculty less so (science faculty much less so than humanities faculty). And students? Even less than that.Yet, the dollars being spent on access services in libraries – both software and people – were (and continue to be) tremendous. Are those expenditures aligned properly with the expectations of the users, and if they are, then how do we more effectively leverage those investments to reach a broader audience?
A number of organizations had been following this trend closely - including my own (ITHAKA … which is the organizational umbrella under which JSTOR and Portico reside). We were taking a longitudinal look at faculty views about the library – and other pertinent scholarly communications issues – and comparing those view with similar survey data from librarians.One noticeable disconnect in these surveys – as you might imagine – as the perception of the “library as gateway”. Librarians believe it to be hugely important and faculty less so (science faculty much less so than humanities faculty). And students? Even less than that.Yet, the dollars being spent on access services in libraries – both software and people – were (and continue to be) tremendous. Are those expenditures aligned properly with the expectations of the users, and if they are, then how do we more effectively leverage those investments to reach a broader audience?
So, how do we take a good idea (web-scale discovery) and make it better?How do we take the basic principle – which is good and valuable – and use it in such a way so that it achieves a broader impact?
So, how do we take a good idea (web-scale discovery) and make it better?How do we take the basic principle – which is good and valuable – and use it in such a way so that it achieves a broader impact?
In other words, how do we change the premise in such a way that we are focused LESS on “bringing researchers back to the library” and instead focus on “bringing the library to the researcher (regardless of the starting point)?How do libraries get better at getting – as Lorcan Dempsey at OCLC has said – “in the flow”?
A number of organizations had been following this trend closely - including my own (ITHAKA … which is the organizational umbrella under which JSTOR and Portico reside). We were taking a longitudinal look at faculty views about the library – and other pertinent scholarly communications issues – and comparing those view with similar survey data from librarians.One noticeable disconnect in these surveys – as you might imagine – as the perception of the “library as gateway”. Librarians believe it to be hugely important and faculty less so (science faculty much less so than humanities faculty). And students? Even less than that.Yet, the dollars being spent on access services in libraries – both software and people – were (and continue to be) tremendous. Are those expenditures aligned properly with the expectations of the users, and if they are, then how do we more effectively leverage those investments to reach a broader audience?
The idea is excruciatingly simple.
The idea is excruciatingly simple.
“Lightbox” is the new feature where the pop-up box comes up on the third page of results