Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green - OurResearch blog

We recently announced that we’d completely rewritten Unpaywall to make it faster, more accurate, and (most importantly) easier to fix and improve. We wanted to move Unpaywall from product to process, something we could continuously improve along with the community. Well, we’ve been working hard on that over the last few months and here’s an […]

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Primo Research Assistant launches- a first look and some things you should know

A blog about academic librarianship. Covers discovery, open access and other hot trends by a librarian in Singapore.

Organizational Structure Around Web-Scale Discovery Services in Canadian Academic Libraries | Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research

Can Ex_libris work with publishers to enable OA articles in hybrid journals to be discoverable ?

Currently if we do not subscribe to a journal (normally a hybrid OA titles) which has open access articles the article access is not discoverable as available during a search of Primo - is there any way to identify these articles as being available ?

Crossref as a bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanities

Abstract. Crossref is an official digital object identifier (DOI) registration agency launched in 2000 as a joint effort between publishers to allow persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals. Our study explores the coverage of Crossref for tracking literature in the arts and humanities, which usually has a national or regional focus and targets domestic audiences. An analysis of the coverage of ERIH PLUS journals shows that Crossref indexes more sources than Scopus and includes additional journals from Eastern and Southern Europe and the Global South. Crossref limitations arise when analyzing the amount of metadata deposited by publishers. Just two-thirds of the journals deposit abstracts and ORCIDs and around a third deposit affiliations. The level of metadata completion for individual articles is lower, with major differences depending on the language of the document. Just half of the journals actually deposit references. As a result, Scopus retrieves more citations than Crossref, except for publications in German and French. Crossref represents a promising bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanities but is in need of improvement regarding the level of metadata completion.