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Simon Inger Consulting
Why Discovery is a Mess
STM Digital Publishing
Me:
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1996
Springer had RedSage Elsevier had completed TULiP program CatchWord had its launch clients HighWire had its launch clients Wiley contracted with a division of
Mitsubishi to build its first platform Bill Gates said “Content is King”
– Which got a lot of publishers excited
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Content is King vs Context is King
ContentEvery publisher
BothEBSCO, ProQuest,
Elsevier (Scopus), ACS (CAS), NIH (PMC/PubMed)
ContextGoogle / Scholar
PubMedLibraries
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Multiple incarnations
Then Primary incarnation on
publisher platform Maybe secondary
incarnation (embargoed) in aggregator database
Now Primary incarnation on
publisher platform Aggregator Institutional repository Subject repository ResearchGate SciHub
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Incarnations Downloaded
7
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Over half of downloads are free!
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With some variation by country
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The Rise of Library Technology
Libraries want to be the starting point– fear of deskilling and disintermediation– perhaps best qualified on content selection
If not the starting point, then link server technology guides along the way– manages multiple incarnations
Discovery and Delivery
Library Web Pages
RDS, A&I
Link Server/Resolver
Target
GoogleToCSocial Media
Articles: discovery options
Delivery
Discovery
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Discovery Survey
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Librarians are different
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The Game so far (level 1)
End users don’t have the same discovery tool preferences as librarians– But librarians control much of the navigation
and buy the target resources It’s often harder to find Gold OA than
Green OA articles if you are operating within a library environment– Making something free on a publisher site
often means it becomes no more discoverable by the majority of readers
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What about books?
Delivery
Discovery
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Major Players in Discovery
Library Technology – Resource Discovery Services
Google Scholar / Google A&Is
– Clarivate Analytics– Elsevier– EBSCO– ProQuest
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Discovery Options
Comprehensive but complicated Fast, simple, free, but not guaranteed Library-focussed but less comprehensive
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Sci-Hub
High % of current articles now in Sci-Hub– > 58,000,000
Simple interface, no log-in barrier means it is used by individuals even within subscribing institutions
Are big aggregations the answer?
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What to do (the easier stuff)
Keep up good relations with major discovery organisations (A&I, Google Scholar, Library RDS vendors) Act on poor download statistics! Work with library technology companies
(especially ProQuest and EBSCO) to make sure libraries know how to include OA journals in their indexes– Tell libraries that these journals exist!
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What to do (the bigger stuff)
Library tech companies need to cooperate more Need solution to hybrid OA problem Need to improve selection and marketing
of OA journals Benefit from more standardised access
control Remove barriers not add to them!
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The Problem is Evolving Faster than the Solution
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