When you have been in the library industry for a while, you start noticing patterns.

I've always been a big fan of Summon's Best bet feature and Primo's resource recommender. If you are unfamiliar with the idea, it allows the librarian to augment search results users get with additional custom messages or recommendations when they search in Summon or Primo.

Academic related browser extensions : Browser extensions (Scite/Scholarcy)and improvements to Zotero

For a long time, there were just two main citation sources that had data that could claim to be relatively comprehensive multi-discipline wise, namely Web of Science and Scopus.

Where I speculate about how the concepts of skill caps and performance caps and the views that librarians implictly hold on them in these two dimensions, affect how they engage with them.

In this week's blog entry, I cover three new stories of interest that have one common thread - issues affecting the measurement of journal usage.

It has been over 2 years ago in Jun 2017, where I picked up on the growing trend of library discovery services and Abstract and indexing servicing intergrating open access content into their indexes.

Updated 27/8/2019 - Libkey Nomad now supports open access via Unpaywall (accepted manuscript) on top of full OA journals already in Libkey Knowledgebase. Kopernio now allows institutions which are WOS customers to setup library link resolver as a fall-back.

Back in 2016, I wrote a fairly controversial piece wondering "Are institutional repositories a dead end?" .

In 2018, I started noticing an increasing number of startups that focused on applying machine learning in the Libraries and Scholarly Communication arena.

In academia, the print paradigm still holds sway. For instance, I've argued that our citation practices makes no sense in our largely digital era. That said, quite a bit of the content, we read, cite and use are available only in hard copy , or failing that content in PDF that can't be easily manipulated in digital formats.