{"id":17138,"date":"2016-04-30T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17138"},"modified":"2016-04-30T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:14:46","slug":"is-the-open-access-discoverability-problem-solvable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/04\/30\/is-the-open-access-discoverability-problem-solvable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is the Open Access discoverability problem solvable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <em>Medium<\/em> article, from the head of Ingenta Connect, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ingenta\/is-the-open-access-discoverability-problem-solvable-and-whose-problem-is-it-e2b79f997869\">&#8220;Is the Open Access discoverability problem solvable? And whose problem is it?&#8221;<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a cursory look at the problem, but even then it&#8217;s interesting for what it <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* For &#8220;institutional librarians&#8221; the author seems to imply that their future role is only to be in one-to-one &#8220;mentoring and facilitation&#8221; of researchers.  No mention of anything else, like the big publishers working with librarians to craft and adopt universal OA-status tagging code for discoverability.<\/p>\n<p>* For &#8220;scholarly authors&#8221; he only suggests academics might become marketeers for their own papers.  Frankly, this seems like a waste of their valuable time.  Given the salaries that full-time research academics get, they can afford to hire a virtual assistant. To promote four or five papers a year outside of one&#8217;s own disciplinary niche, simply go to UpWork (or similar) and hire your personal marketeer at $180 a paper (to get someone of quality, for a day and-a-half of work).  One could probably find a way to write the $900 bill off against tax each year. Of course that assumes one is publishing something worth reading, rather than academic shovel-ware intended to tick boxes inside one&#8217;s own institution.<\/p>\n<p>* For the big &#8220;publishers&#8221; the article vaguely suggests they need to embrace openness. Though perhaps only in order to capture it for their own purposes, via a&#8230; &#8220;drawing-together of all the dispersed OA content silos into one place&#8221;. Well, for their own limited set of OA content, the big publishers can solve that on Monday morning if they really want it.  They just have to allow the seemingly-stalled Paperity to import the OA-only article feeds of Elsevier, Brill, Degruyter, Wiley and others, so that Paperity has full coverage of all OA articles from the big publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Medium article, from the head of Ingenta Connect, &#8220;Is the Open Access discoverability problem solvable? And whose problem &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/04\/30\/is-the-open-access-discoverability-problem-solvable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-improve-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}