OCLC research scientist, Brian Lavoie, opened a recent blog post with the arresting pair of questions and answers:
…What is the most popular work by an Irish author? Where could one go to find out? The answer to the first question
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Many years ago, when there were new and second-hand bookshops all the way along London’s Charing Cross Road , there was a memorable bookshop called Joseph Poole. Much of my reading in my late teens and early twenties originate in that …
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An interesting report, based on a 2015 survey but published 2016, gives an overview into how one major university, Oxford, enables its users to find information about its own collections – not just researchers, but institutional staff (such as …
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TrendMD is (as its website states) “a content recommendation engine for scholarly publishers, which powers personalized recommendations for thousands of sites”. An interesting blog post by Matt Cockerill of TrendMD (published February 2016) claims “TrendMD’s collaborative filtering engine improves clickthrough rates 272% …
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The truth about search seems to be more astonishing than anything you could imagine. Lin Lin, EBSCO Senior User Experience Researcher, talking at the UKeiG Annual Meeting last week, provided some startling revelations, drawing on EBSCO’s wide experience of observing search …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …