Alternative Avenues of Discovery: Competition or Potential

Alternative Avenues of Discovery: Competition or Potential

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April 5, 2016

Michael Levine-ClarkUniversity of Denver

Jason PriceSCELC Library Consortium

Ido PeledEx Libris, a ProQuest Company

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/October_discovery/

Do library discovery systems really make a difference?

Single publisher site referring URL data

U of Denver

Is there a future (in search & content) for libraries?

• The even broader question that we rarely ask• A variation on this question is, “what happens if we cede

discovery to Google Scholar and its ilk?”• The promise (and threat) of Open Access

The Broader Scope of Access

Three Inseparable Components

Get to students

where they are at

their platform of

choice

REACH OUT

Provide simple and

intuitive design

SERVICES

Analyze behavior and

usage to faciliate an

even better

interaction

INSIGHTS

Reach Out – Search Engines (Google, Bing, etc.)

Services - Intuitive User Interface

http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/01/applying-ux-principles-to-design-of.html

One Experience across Devices

Intuitive Design

Action-Oriented Design

Personalization

Serendipitous Discovery

Insights – Analytics Driven Design

Insight for Collection Development & User ExperienceCross Reports

• Acquisitions

• Cataloging

• Fulfillment

• UI usage

• queries

• Results click through

• Collection development optimization• Evidence-based

selection• Vendor usage• Cost per use• Collection/resource

gaps• UX improvement• Facets• Layout

• User services prioritization• Functionality

development• Display order

Data-driven DecisionsShared Data

Single Analytics Platform

Matching end-user activity to acquisition policy

• Single interface• Single data source• Out-of-the-box and custom reports

Alternative avenues of Discovery –3 Emerging Examples

• Theme: Reach out– Libhub via Zepheira w/ Library link– Uses linked data to extend library catalogs to the web

• Theme: Services– 1science Open Access Solutions– Expanding access to discoverable content via institutional

repositories

• Theme: Insights– Yewno inference engine– Supporting discovery through uncovering connections among

concepts

Transform Link ConsumePublish

Example: Google search: What does boston university library have on traumatic brain injury?

Reaching out: Zephiera & Library Link -transforming library data for search engine optimization

Services: 1science - extending the reach of Institutional

Repositories to OA versions of faculty publications as they

become freely available on the web

Example Mock

UP based

on PRISM IR at

U. of Calgary

1science.com

Insights: Yewno’s inference agent takes the search out of discovery by revealing & connecting concepts based on underlying scholarly content

Yewno.com

As you identify an item of interest and click on the ‘i’ button in the information bar on the right hand side, the

full text (or whatever has been authorised by the publisher) will appear

Insights: Yewno’s inference agent takes the search out of discovery by revealing & connecting concepts based on underlying scholarly content

Yewno.com

Questions?

Michael Levine-ClarkUniversity of Denver

Ido PeledEx Libris, a ProQuest Company

Jason PriceSCELC Library Consortium