{"id":9186,"date":"2014-02-22T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2014-02-22T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:18:26","slug":"discoverability-of-scholarly-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/02\/22\/discoverability-of-scholarly-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoverability of Scholarly Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New White Paper from commercial publisher SAGE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagepub.com\/repository\/binaries\/pdf\/improvementsindiscoverability.pdf\">Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Accomplishments, Aspirations and Opportunities<\/a>, written after the moment&#8230;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;in 2013, [when commercial paywall] academic content providers around the world were forced to consider alternate methods of open-web discoverability when Google\u2019s primary web search ceased its special treatment of access-controlled scholarly materials&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The consusus here and <a href=\"http:\/\/oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org\/files\/2012\/02\/OAPENUK-Focus-Group-Summary-Report.doc\">elsewhere<\/a> seems to be &#8216;just add metadata&#8217; to open content, and it will slot right into existing closed discovery systems.  Good luck with that one, and don&#8217;t forget to shut the stable door.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting comment spotted in the paper, in relation to the oft-heard complaint that Google uses closed proprietary search algorithms&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The research also noted the variability among [academic library Web-scale] discovery services\u2019 proprietary search algorithms, which &mdash; lacking transparency &mdash; disallows local customization, which libraries and end users expect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What it doesn&#8217;t mention is the quality of the ranking done by the proprietary search algorithms in services such as Summon.  To see what I mean, try the dozy search | <em>what is history carr<\/em> | in Summon, then try it again in JURN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New White Paper from commercial publisher SAGE: Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Accomplishments, Aspirations and Opportunities, written after the moment&#8230; &#8220;in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/02\/22\/discoverability-of-scholarly-content\/\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-and-think-tank-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}