How do researchers really look for and find content for their research? That’s a pretty fundamental question! So I turned to the research project “A Day in the Life of a (Serious) Researcher” with great anticipation to identify that part of the …
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Sparrho (www.sparrho.com) is a discovery tool for researchers. The user registers their interests and Sparrho provides them with “feeds” (largely abstracts, cut can be videos or papers) of relevant content. So clearly Sparrho appears to meet a need.
They claim it replaces Electronic Table of Contents …
An article by Kent Anderson in Scholarly Kitchen reviewed four of the megajournals (although by the end of a longish article, he decided that there was only really one megajournal: PLOS ONE, which is today publishing around 100 articles per day, or 36,500 articles …
One paradox of being involved in digital search is that it is easy to forget the look and feel of actual books and how they are discovered. When you have a free moment, you realise the way books are found in bookshops is fundamentally different …
A common complaint by end users is how difficult it is to find books, whether online, or in a print bookshop. A recent presentation by Kat Meyer of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), a trade association of publishers, revealed how BISG members are …
Ben Ratliff, a music critic on the New York Times, wrote in The Guardian about Spotify’s Discover Weekly recommendation engine (“Slave to the algorithm: how music fans can reclaim their playlists from Spotify” 21 Feb 2016). This service provides an automatically generated weekly playlist for …
“Users’ expectations are different for these two. When you search books you expect an answer; when you search journal articles, a scholar expects a list of things to read. A book represents late-stage work, not the early-stage work of journal articles.”
Thus Anurag …