Taking Full Advantage: Discovery of Open Access Content

Introduction

Supporting the Library in the Discovery and Re-use of Open Access Content

Dr. William Gunn is the Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, a research management tool for collaboration and discovery. Dr. Gunn attended Tulane University as a Louisiana Board of Regents Fellow, receiving his Ph.D in Biomedical Science from the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University in 2008. His research involved dissecting the molecular mechanism of bone metastasis in multiple myeloma and resulted in a novel treatment approach employing mesenchymal stem cells, the body's own reparative forces. Frustrated with the inefficiencies of the modern research process, he left academia and established the biology program at Genalyte, a novel diagnostics startup. At Mendeley, he works to make research more impactful and reproducible and is an expert on altmetrics, reproducibility, and open access.

Ex Libris Primo Support for Open Access

Limited discoverability has been one of the major barriers for the adoption of open-access practices by researchers. However, with the emergence of library discovery systems, the findability of scholarly content has entered a new era, regardless of the business model according to which scholarly materials are published. As a content-neutral technology provider, Ex Libris furnishes libraries with the technological infrastructure that enables their users to take advantage of the full spectrum of materials they need—open-access as well as subscribed materials. Furthermore, the technology helps libraries expose the content stored in their institutional repositories, thus facilitating the institutions’ dissemination of their researchers’ output.

This session describes the ways in which the Primo technology promotes open-access publishing and supports the various open-access business models.

An Astronomy Library's Quest for Greater Access to Literature and Data

The John G. Wolbach Library, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Seamless Astronomy are part of a greater collaboration at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to improve discovery of astronomical literature and data. Current projects include research on the development of systems that seamlessly integrate scientific data and literature, the semantic interlinking and annotation of scientific resources, the improvement of access to previously published and unpublished resources, the publication of new research formats, the study of the impact of social media and networking sites on scientific dissemination, and the analysis and visualization of astronomical data and research communities.

This talk will explore a number of these projects and how they improve access to various sources of information within the astronomical community