Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

ALIA Library

Creator
Heterick, Bruce; Wells, Andrew
Description

ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
 
Abstract:
 
As the implementations of web-scale discovery services (WSDS) like Primo, Summon, EDS, and WorldCat Discovery Services proliferate, and as libraries continue to make significant investments to purchase, implement, and maintain these services, it is increasingly important to understand if these investments are helping libraries achieve the impact they originally anticipated. What was the original rationale for these services? What were the impacts that were expected? How are those impacts being measured? What are the early results? Are the results supporting the investments? Are there other options?
 
At the same time, many content providers are making similar investments to make their content discoverable in these services and to support libraries in leveraging these investments on behalf of their faculty, students, and researchers. The promise, of course, is greater discoverability and increased usage for the content provider. What, exactly, are the investments that these content providers are making? Given that there is a culture of providing content for indexing for free to these services, how are these investments being recovered by the content provider? Are these investments resulting in the expected outcomes?

Publisher
Deakin, ACT: Australian Library and Information Association
Contributor
University of New South Wales; JSTOR
Date
2015
Type
Format
Language
en
Relation
https://read.alia.org.au/alia-information-online-2015-conference-program
https://read.alia.org.au/juice-worth-squeeze-slides
Coverage
Australia