Session 5B: New Tools and Trends in Discovery Technologies
With over 2.5 million scholarly articles published each year – more than 8,000 each day – the glut of available scholarly content poses challenges to researchers, authors, publishers, and libraries. For authors and publishers, getting their work discovered and read, and ultimately cited, can be a career-defining challenge. Libraries compete with the open web by providing enhanced discovery services which they hope will be valued by their users. No single solution has emerged to satisfy all of these needs. This panel of experts and practitioners, representing a variety of stakeholder communities, will have 2 main goals: 1) to examine current trends among readers re: how they find the content that will be most interesting and useful to their work.; and 2) to survey what strategies, technologies, and services are being used by publishers and libraries to promote discovery of their content.
