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NISO Content Discovery and Open Access

NISO Content Discovery and Open Access

Invited NISO webinar on content discovery in scholarly communication.

William Gunn

May 07, 2013
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  1. Discovery and Re-use of
    Open Access Research
    William Gunn, Ph.D.
    Head of Academic Outreach
    Mendeley
    @mrgunn

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  2. How do people discover
    research?

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  3. If you’re a publisher, you may
    think this
    • Browsing the journal
    • Google Scholar
    • TOC alerts
    • RSS feeds
    • Library catalog referrals

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  4. If you’re a librarian, you may
    think this
    • Google Scholar
    • Library catalog
    • Actually going to the library
    • TOC email alerts
    • RSS feeds
    J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 January; 98(1): 73–81.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.98.1.019

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  5. If you’re a scientist, you ask
    your colleagues and they tell you
    this
    • Google Scholar
    • Via email from PI/colleague
    • Library catalog
    • from web forum
    • #icanhazpdf

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  6. There’s a lot of pent up demand
    • Pubmed Central downloads are
    about 50% from non-institutional
    domains.
    • Searches landing on Arxiv are often
    from non-institutional domains
    • Nurses
    • Small business
    • Interested public / lay scientists

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  7. The difference in the two types
    of discovery is that one is social
    Not Social
    ∙ Search
    ∙ Email alerts
    ∙ RSS feeds
    ∙ Browsing
    journal
    websites
    ∙ Visiting the
    library
    Social
    ∙ Emails from
    colleagues
    ∙ links shared on
    social networks
    ∙ web forums
    ∙ shared servers

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  8. Obviously, open access research
    has an advantage here
    http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Lin_Fenner.html

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  9. data from Mendeley readership
    data from a sample of 500k papers from Pubmed published in 2012

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  10. altmetrics show broader impact
    a work
    http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1

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  11. An example of re-use
    Without open data, this wouldn’t be possible!

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  12. www.mendeley.com

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