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Discovery and Discoverability
UCL London Dec 3rd 2014
#discoverydiscoverability
John Akeroyd
Open Web
Google
Google Scholar
Google Books
Bing, Ask etc..
Amazon
Wikipedia
Library Catalogues
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OPACS
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Enhanced
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Web Front end
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Interfaces/Aquabrowser/Vufind/
Biblio/Chamo/Blacklight
"Library" databases
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Large Scale
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SCOPUS
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Ingenta
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WeboS
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Zetoc
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JISC Journal archives
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DOAB
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etc.
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Specific
multiple datasets
covering every
discipline
Publisher Platforms
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Wiley
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Sage
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Elsevier
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SpringerLink
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Emerald Insight
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FT.COM
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etc..
Local Resources
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Institutional Repositories
Archives
Learning Resources/Moodle
Intranet/Website
Blogs
Web scale library discovery
Single search box - consolidated index
Search
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Simple interface
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Fuzzy Matching/Soundex
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Pre-search prompts
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Phrase/Concept Query
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Relevance Ranking
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TF-IDF
Facets
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Main authors
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Format
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Main topics/keyword frequency
Content
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Click through
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Licensed/open access
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Availability data e.g. in library/ILL
Customisable
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Branding
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Look and Feel
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Results/search page layout
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Ranking
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Own data first
APIs
Personalisation/Syndication
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Saved search
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Alerts
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Twitter/facebook
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Email
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Referrals
Examples of Social Discovery ....
Lorcan Dempsey OCLC; NISO Virtual Conference: Web-Scale Discovery Services: Transforming Access to Library Resources
Research ….
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Implementation
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Decision processes; comparisons; mapping
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Usage....levels; nature; mostly academic;
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Usability; layouts/look and feel;
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Impact on databases;impact on journal collections
see for example https://sites.google.com/site/urd2comparison/articles-on-discovery or Thomsett-Scott, B. & Reese,
P.E., 2012. Academic Libraries and Discovery Tools: A Survey of the Literature. College & Undergraduate Libraries,
19(2-4), p.123-143.
Problems
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No content is complete
Different sets of results on different systems/ different results on same
system/different results at different times;
Search in publisher products/databases is more attuned to content metadata;
Lack of authority e.g. names
Poor use of functionality
Library is not the only place for discovery and maybe the least used .....
Discoverability
Not just about search/metadata but also
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Browsability
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Display
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Marketing
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Social discovery/Social
Networks/citations/reading
lists/VLE/blogs/linkedin/mendeley/
People