PRESS RELEASE: 25th July 2013
UKSG announces successful bidder for the Resource Discovery Study
UKSG, with the support of Jisc, announced today they have partnered with
LISU to carry out the research project. Entitled Assessing the Impact of
Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage the project will be carried
out by LISU at Loughborough University, in collaboration with the Department
of Information Science, Loughborough University and Evidence Base,
Birmingham City University and aims to:
· evaluate the impact that library discovery technologies (such as link
resolvers and web-scale resource discovery services) have on the usage of
academic resources
· provide evidence to determine if there is a case for (a) investment in
discovery technologies by libraries and (b) engagement with library
discovery technologies by publishers and others in the academic information
supply chain (unless no positive impact is found, in which case to provide
evidence to this effect)
· to provide recommendations for actions that libraries, publishers and
others in the academic information supply chain should take to engage with
such technologies to best support the discovery of resources for teaching,
learning and research
· to identify additional research, data, discussion, initiatives or other
activities required that will support the implementation of the findings of
this study.
Ed Pentz, Research Officer for UKSG and Executive Director of CrossRef said
“the use of library discovery technologies has grown enormously over the
last couple of years. However, there still is very little publicly available
information evidencing the impact of such technology. We are delighted to be
working with LISU to help give publishers, libraries and other content
providers the means to assess the impact of these technologies on usage of
their content”.
Claire Creaser, Director, LISU said “we are excited to be working in this
new and emerging area. We have a number of highly experienced researchers
including Angela Conyers, Ann O’Brien and Valérie Spezi working on the
project and look forward to presenting our results to UKSG and Jisc as well
as the information community in the autumn”.
Preliminary results will be presented at the UKSG Global Forum on 15th
November in London.
More information and the tender document can be found at
www.uksg.org/researchstudy
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About UKSG – www.uksg.org
The UKSG mission is to connect the information community and encourage the
exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. We are the only organisation
spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly
information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and
technology vendors.
About LISU - www.lboro.ac.uk/lisu
LISU is an internationally renowned research and information centre for
library and information services, based in the Department of Information
Science at Loughborough University. LISU collects, analyses, interprets, and
publishes statistical information for and about the library domain in the
UK, and undertakes research and consultancy projects for a wide range of
organisations.
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international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching,
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