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NISO Forum“The Future of Library Discovery”

“A Billion Lessons Learned…”

Karen McKeown, Director, Product Discovery, Usage and Analytics, Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

October 3, 2015

karen.mckeown@cengage.com

gale.com/discovery

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The Opportunity

From Gale Student EngagementInsights Survery, Sping 2015

N=3000 students, 700 instructors)

“Good stuff finds me”

…Time Out CEO, Tim Arthur

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Right Place, Right Time: Classroom, Open Web, Library

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Classroom: Discovery Enhanced via Course IntegrationGale and Cengage Learning MindTap

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Classroom Assignments – Library Resources MakeCourses More Engaging

Demo of adding Gale Resources to Cengage Learning MindTap

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Classroom Integration Has Many Benefits

•Usage of library resources increase•Student engagement in the course increases•Course ratings positively impacted•Lasting effect of library use in next courses

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Google Classroom & Gale – Integration improves usage & can lead to student success

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Google Scholar and Google Discovery – in the path is key

Google Scholar Indexing of scholarly full text in Gale databases – Up to 2.2M documents

Easing ability of users to find and access library resources from Google

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Library Discovery – Lessons Learned & The 4 C’s

•Content •Compliance•Communication•Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

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Content - Reaching full coverage of all databases isn’t easy

•Databases expanded from 5 to 41 in last year

•Over 1.1 Billion documents•Gale is amongst top providers of indexed content in most every discovery service

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List of products shared with partners

Full text and MARC noted

See www.gale.com/discovery

Content – Differences by Discovery Partner ExistTransparancy aids awareness

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Compliance: Open Data Initiative Checklist – Guidanceof Standards Groups Helps

Gale joined Sage and IEEE in publishing ODI compliance checklistJuly 2015

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Communication – Open and Visible

Nexus of information on Discovery:• Partnerships lists• ODI Compliance Checklist• Guides for optimizing Gale for by Discovery Service• Links to Title Lists, MARC &

Discovery tools

www.gale.com/discovery

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Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

Partner conversations and Gale issue tracking identified top issues – linking and metadata

2 projects identified to alleviate ~ 60% of all issues reported:

•Gale Direct Linking – requires partner adoption. Status on gale.com/discovery.

•KBART Title Lists

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Inbound Open URL:http://find.galegroup.com/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&req_dat=info:sid/gale&res_id=info:sid/gale:AONE&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.atitle=The+relationship+between+irritable+bowel+syndrome+and+psychiatric+disorders:+from+molecular+changes+&rft.aufirst=Mihaela+&rft.aulast=Fadgyas-Stanculete&rft.issn=20499256&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Molecular+Psychiatry&rft.spage=4&rft.volume=2

Gale Direct Link:http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A374639755/AONE

From This (Est. FailureRate – 30%+)

To This(Est. FailureRate – almost 0%)

Gale Direct Linking: Improving User Experience/Quality

Article:

Fadgyas-Stanculete, Mihaela, et al. "The relationship between irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric disorders: from molecular changes to clinical manifestations." Journal of Molecular Psychiatry 2 (2014): 4. Academic OneFile. Web. 26 June 2015.

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KBART title lists: Improving User Experience/Quality

In 2015, we are moving to have KBART Title Lists replace all Title Lists provided by Gale. Why?• Title Lists have many uses• Vary in format & data included• NISO initiative known as “KBART” –

Knowledge Base and Related Tools – published specifications for reporting title lists

• Gale has made KBART lists availble (Phase 1 )

• Phase 2 – expands to include additional content types and will incorporate Gale Direct Linking. Will aid in MARC record creation (links)

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Discovery and Gale

Right place, right time: Library, Classroom, Open Web