2017 SSP 39th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 5A: Not all “Open” Content is Fully Discoverable…
Publishers, aggregators, authors, funding-agencies, and universities often have an intention to share content with everyone in the world and choose a variety of places to put their content where it can be discovered. Users have many ways of discovering content including web search engines, library discovery services, various links, and browsing tools. Not all of these “discovery pathways” are able to search or find content from some of the places where “open” content has been placed.
The NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee is now examining the intersections between shared content locations and various discovery pathways. This session will look at three broad categories of open scholarly output: journal articles, open monographs, and open educational resources (OER). We’ll cover each content type to describe discoverability problems currently being worked on, and will solicit from the audience suggestions on where there may be additional issues to consider.
Moderator: John G. Dove, NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
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Speakers
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