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Tracing Discovery & Subsequent Use: Harvesting and Analyzing the Data
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017: Tracing Discovery & Subsequent Use: Harvesting and Analyzing the Data
In 2016, NISO announced an initiative aimed at development of best practices for documenting and understanding users’ paths between discovery of content and accessing the content. Did users come in from a discovery service, Google Scholar or some other available channel? What should that signify to service providers? What does that mean for libraries? This session will spotlight the size and scope of the issue as well as the progress that may be made towards its resolution.
Confirmed Speakers: Allison Belan, Associate Director, Digital Strategy & Systems, Duke University Press; Peter Vlahakis, Product Manager, Ithaka and Dan Paskett, Director, Shared Shelf Outreach Coordinator, Ithaka; Ken Varnum, Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics, University of Michigan
From the Perspective of the Content Provider
Allison C. Belan, Associate Director, Digital Strategy &
Systems, Duke University Press
Duke University Press annually publishes about 120 new books, 55 journals, and multiple digital collections. Publishing primarily in the humanities and social sciences, we know that our readers’ discovery workflows are diverse and that they often deviate from the relatively better-understood discovery paths in STM, but the discovery ecosystem presents challenges to analysis and understanding of these workflows. In this presentation, I will share how greater visibility of where our users find our scholarship would help us better serve researchers and library community by killing off unhelpful myths, focusing our resources, and advocating to our platform vendors.
From the Perspective of the Platform Provider
Peter Vlahakis, Product Manager, Ithaka and Dan Paskett, Director, Shared Shelf Outreach Coordinator, Ithaka
ITHAKA/JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. We strive to make our content discoverable and accessible within the ecosystem of library discovery and linking services for our users and libraries. Understanding the successes and failures of these integrations can be difficult due to complex workflows. This presentation discusses why we care about measuring the success of our discovery and linking integrations, what we’ve done to address this need, challenges the community faces in understanding user behavior, and brief recommendations for what we might do to improve tracking within the discovery ecosystem.
Tracking Link Origins Working Group
Ken Varnum, Senior Program Manager
for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics, University of Michigan
The NISO Tracking Link Origins Working Group has been meeting for the past year to understand the document-to-delivery landscape and describe the common paths users take from discovery to delivery, with station-stops at link resolvers, proxy servers, and other intermediate locations. This presentation will provide an overview of the Working Group's progress to date and outline the primary paths we have discovered using survey data and expert knowledge.
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