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Full discovery: What is the publisher's role?
Author(s) -
Dove John G.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1086
Subject(s) - discoverability , variety (cybernetics) , publishing , world wide web , key (lock) , computer science , data science , political science , computer security , artificial intelligence , law
Key points Our collective authorship and publishing practices do not always end up ensuring that scholarly content is discoverable by readers. Readers of all kinds rely on a variety of ‘discovery pathways’, such as search engines, library systems, and various electronic links, some of which are blind to the content they desire. Efforts over the years to improve content discoverability have made great progress, but an increasing amount of freely available content brings up new issues. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO)’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee has developed a grid comparing various ways in which content is shared with various ways in which users discover such content. This article brings to light a few of the current obstacles and opportunities for innovation by publishers, aggregators, search engines, and library systems, and invites Learned Publishing readers to step up and identify others.