Hi Gerry,
Any chance you could make your posts to the list a little bit more
readable? The overwhelming volume of symbols hurts my eyes.
Many thanks,
Ian Clark
Library Systems Officer,
Augustine House,
Canterbury Christ Church University
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From: McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 March 2012 15:53
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Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] Electronic resource apps
*** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings ***
Colleagues/
In addition to my current obsession [:-)] with Digital Textbooks
[ http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/ ],
I've been actively involved in surveying publisher and vendor
initiatives with regard to a Mobile Presence, as well as documenting The
App Phenomena:
The Seventh > New Column > The Mobile Lucky Seven: A Brief Summary,
Searcher v. 19 no. 6 (July/August 2011) pp. 16-21, 52-53.
Profiles > Alexander Street Press / American Chemical Society / Cengage
Learning / EBSCO Publishing / Infotrieve / Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) / NewspaperDirect, Inc.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2011/10/library-mobile-mobile-lucky
-seven-new.html
The Sixth > New Column > Configuring The 'Future Textbook', Searcher v.
19 no. 3 (April 2011) p. 43-47.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2011/06/library-mobile-6-configurin
g-future.html
The Fifth > New Column > Abilene Christian University: An Exemplar
Mobile University, Searcher v. 19 no. 3 (April 2011) p. 34-37.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2011/06/library-mobile-5-abilene-ch
ristian.html
The Fourth > New Column > 'B' is for 'BlackBerry' > Searcher v. 18 no.
10 (December 2010): 50-53.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2011/06/library-mobile-4-b-is-for-b
lackberry.html
The Third > New Column > 'A' Is for 'Android' > Searcher v. 18 no. 7
(September 2010) p. 7-11.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2010/10/library-mobile-3-is-for-and
roid.html
The Second > New Column > 'A' Is for 'Apple' and 'App' > Searcher v. 18
no. 5 (June 2010) p. 32-6.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2010/07/library-mobile-2-is-for-app
le-and-app.html
The First > New Column > Library Mobile > Worldwide Mobile Phone
Adoption and Libraries > Searcher v. 18 no. 3 (April 2010) p. 48-51.
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2010/07/library-mobile-1-worldwide-
mobile-phone.html
BTW: The Eighth will be published later this Spring and profiles a
Mobile Handful of additional publishers with a Mobile Presence (BioOne
/ Elsevier / Emerald / Royal Society of Chemistry / Springer)
And I start work on The Ninth by April 1 ... Candidate publishers /
vendors include JSTOR / Lexis-Nexis Academic / Naxos / ProQuest / Sage
Journals / Web of Knowledge [Sciences].
BTW: I've noticed that as more vendors begin to offer mobile access to
their e-resources, an increasing number of libraries are publishing
Mobile LibGuides
[A Google search will retrieve quite a number ... ].
Enjoy !!!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011
http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/
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Hi Sarah
Good question. What are we doing at the moment, nout.
I really like the Libguide pages Newcastle have developed, and Moira
just mentioned. They highlight what is out there, alongside other
services/facilities related to mobile. I would imagine at some point
Some back-of-an-envelope thoughts...
I think your typical undergrad will be more interested in an app that
searches all content they have access to, not specific
collections/resources. Though there may be subject/content-type
exceptions. With this in mind, apps associated with Resource Discovery
services (Summon, Primo, EDS, Worldcat, etc) could be much more useful.
If they are working on an essay, they probably already have a laptop
open, and hence this will be their access to online content. Our stats
(to our own sites) suggest iPads and iPhones are by far the most popular
devices, with Android devices some way behind. I suspect the iPhone (and
other phone sized devices) will be adevice of last resort only used for
consuming academic content if no other device is to hand.
When it comes to Use Cases, I think they separate between tablets and
mobiles. People are increasingly doing more and more on tablets
(especially the iPad). But what advantages will an App have over a
webpage? And if using an App, I wonder if interoperability with other
Apps is key, i.e. it's not much use to find a highly relevant article,
if you can't save it to your bibliographic library (Zotero, Mendeley,
Refworks), or easily cite it within your Word processing app.
For mobiles, it seems more limited, I guess someone on a train/coffee
shop (with no laptop) planning an essay/research will find it useful to
search and read content. Bedtime reading perhaps? I can't help but feel
services such as http://www.instapaper.com/ might be more useful here.
(allows you to flag an article for reading on your computer, and read it
later) However it's no good for publisher/content sites which only
provide PDFs (which is another reason why you shouldn't only provide PDF
as a format!).
Which is a very long way of saying that while we need to keep abreast of
mobile developments, and show our users that we are, I'm not convinced
of how useful these apps will be for the majority of uses, especially
regarding phone sized devices. However for the long tail of different
types of user/content/needs they may highly useful.
I've got no evidence to hand of the above, so feel free to add [citation
needed] liberally throughout.
Finally, a reminder that Serials recently had a special issue on Mobile
Technology http://uksg.metapress.com/content/u3k72x4ulx70/
Chris
Chris Keene
Technical Development Manager, University of Sussex Library
Contact: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/150000
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> Hi all,
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> With more electronic resources launching apps, I was just wondering if
> any of you are actively promoting/publicising them to your users? If
> so, how, and if not, why not? I've got my own thoughts on the matter,
> but wondered what others were doing.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Best wishes,
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> Sarah
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> Sarah Taylor
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> Electronic Resources Librarian
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> The Peter Marsh Library
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