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Publisher/Librarian value added - the ‘beef’ |
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Publishers and Librarian values are being eroded |
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Pressure from portals and search engines |
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Opportunities to add value outside of
publishing/librarianship |
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Ways in which we’re contributing to the problem |
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Usage Statistics |
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RFPs and consortia |
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Electronic Archives |
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Interfaces |
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New product development |
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Conclusion |
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Value in the electronic world is about... |
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A single, universal interface for all users and
all kinds of data |
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Include all digital materials |
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Everyone able to contribute |
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Everything searchable |
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Constantly updated |
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Used by everyone, for everything, all of the
time |
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Information takes second place to functionality |
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More content viewed as better than less content |
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Aggregation takes precedence to creation |
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Chat groups integrated with quality information |
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Information providers required to pay to be on a
portal - information as bait. |
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‘Navigation’ more important than ‘destinations’ |
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Can’t even decide what constitutes a publication |
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Ways to add new value to 10,000 MEDLINE records |
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Index to articles |
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Directory of Institutions |
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Researcher e-mail directory |
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Institutional Research database |
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Faculty Directory |
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Drug interaction file |
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Subject mapping tool |
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Medical alerts service |
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Diagnostic tool |
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Patient education service |
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Processing power continues to increase |
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Linking tools |
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Ever larger databases |
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Tools for distribution continue to grow |
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Cost to digitize continues to decline |
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Storage cost continues to decline |
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Number of items examined (viewed, marked,
selected, downloaded, e-mailed, printed) to the extent that these can be
recorded and controlled by the server rather than the browser. |
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Number of queries (Searches) categorized as
appropriate for the vendor’s information. A search is intended to represent
a unique intellectual inquiry. |
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Number of Menu Selections |
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Number of Sessions |
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Stickiness (# of return visits) |
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Number of hits returned |
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Auto truncation
- 3 fold increase in hits |
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Automatic “OR” - 23 fold increase in hits |
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Relevance ranking |
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Have server deliver all records at once |
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Add broader terms to all records |
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Include duplicate records |
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Break full-text into multiple records |
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Execute search across multiple databases |
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No field searching capability |
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Make every 5th search fail |
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“90% of users leave the system after executing
their search” |
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They’ve found what they’re looking for |
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They’re following a link to another more
relevant site |
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They can’t figure out how to use the system |
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The system crashes after a search has been
executed |
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“Chapter 7 is requested 5 times more than any
other Chapter” |
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This Chapter is indexed under the letter A |
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This Chapter contains the word “Sex” |
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The Chapter Title is confusing and needs to be
viewed to be seen |
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The Chapter Title is the same as the name of the
book |
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Journal orientation |
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Penalizes rare, obscure, difficult materials |
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Open to manipulation |
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Doesn’t measure |
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Poor performance |
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Poor scholarship - lack of authority or
expertise |
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Precision of search |
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# of errors |
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Lowest common denominator effect |
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Doesn’t work in the physical world - why should
it work in the electronic one ? |
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Weighted to software |
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1 page for content issues - 12 pages for software issues |
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Weighted to journal article databases |
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# of titles, # of articles, etc.. |
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Broad, lowest common denominator criteria |
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Elements that can’t be quantified are missing or
neglected |
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Focus is on the parts not the whole |
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Little attention paid to performance |
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Requires other measures than those developed for
software |
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% of users that find or don’t find what they’re
looking for |
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Only has Quality material |
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Relevance of that material |
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Is unique |
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Is precise |
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Achieves what it sets out to do |
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Is efficient |
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Is Editorially sound |
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Enhances scholarship |
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It’s both content and software |
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Print doesn’t perform |
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Static |
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Reactive |
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Electronic products only exist in their
performance |
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Ever changing |
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Interactive |
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The core values of publishing/librarianship are
still there |
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…but they’re obscured by software issues |
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Many more choices to add value coming |
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Many opportunities to create new performances |
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Notes