15.05 – From Strategy to Solutions: discovering and accessing monographs. Neil Grindley is responsible for areas of work at JISC that address how to effectively find resources that are relevant to learning, teaching and research Jisc is working with other strategic partners to improve the way that libraries and their users discover and access books (both print and digital). Proposals for national scale shared services will be presented. Discovery and Discoverability Chancellors Hall, Senate House University College London, Jan 20 th 2016

Does 4 things… Providing and developing a network infrastructure and related services that meet the needs of the UK research and education communities Supporting the provision and management of digital content for UK education and research Our network of national and regional teams provide local engagement, advice and support to help you get the most out of our service offer Our R&D work, paid for entirely by our major funders, identifies emerging technologies and develops them around your particular needs What does Jisc do?

Jisc Services

Some issues … 1.There is a misalignment between librarians and users’ perspectives on resource discovery 2.The complexity of the bibliographic metadata ecosystem inhibits activity 3.The concept and the mechanism of ‘the book’ will evolve as print transitions to digital

Researchers & Learners End User Perceptions about Access to Resources

Research Focused Universities Teaching Focused Universities & Colleges Specialist Colleges & Research Institutions Issues of concern to UK F/HE Libraries

Print Management (space management) Collection Management Collaboration to reduce duplication (of data, cataloguing effort, resource investment) Data Quality De-duplication for disambiguation (of resource items) Discovery of digital surrogates Metadata and persistent identifiers Building sustainable and effective platforms National and international authority sources National coverage Licensing, rights and permissions for access The procurement, management and discovery of e-books International engagement Data formats and emerging opportunities for exploiting data Preservation and conservation Consuming the data and the end user perspective (source: Jisc Bibliographic Data Roadmap Group: September January 2015)

What do users say they use to discover resources? UK online library survey (July 2015):

Differences between library staff and library user views on discovery methods

The complexity of the bibliographic metadata ecosystem inhibits activity Library Metadata Content Users

UK Academic Libraries A New National Model for Bibliographic Data Global Service Provider UK National Bibliographic Knowledgebase Bibliographic Data Services Researchers & Learners

The Recombinant Possibilities of Data (2012) The concept and the mechanism of ‘the book’ will evolve as print transitions to digital Bibliographic data Citation DataUsage Data Institutional Repositories Subject Repositories Open Access Book Platforms Data Repositories

So the big headline message is … It ends up being more about data than resource discovery

New emerging trends for discovery Specialised apps for discovery Streaming services similar to music discovery systems The increasing demand for access from mobile devices The hidden economy of user-curated scholarly discovery Rapidly changing online trends of social media usage Next generation expectations and a ‘ruthlessly instrumental’ approach to search Spotlight on the Digital: Recent trends and research in scholarly discovery behaviour Report for Jisc by Dr Ian Chowcat, Sero Consulting (September 2015)