[GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content

[John G. Dove]

All,
   *Learned Publishing*, the journal of the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers, devoted their January Issue to the topic
of Discovery.
    The publisher has now opened up that issue well before the usual
embargo period would have dictated.  So now everyone care read any of the
articles in that issue.  The Table of Contents is at:

Learned Publishing January 2017 issue on "Discovery"
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2017.30.issue-1/issuetoc>

    I thought readers of G.O.A.L. might be interested in the opinion piece
I was invited to write on Discovery Issues as it relates to Open Content.
I based my piece on work that the NISO Discovery to Delivery Topic
Committee has been doing to identify unnecessary friction between someone's
desire to share content with the world (an author, a publisher, an
institution) and all the various ways in which users seek out information
and would be glad to discover such shared content.

      Full discovery: What is the publisher's role?
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1086/full>

    Since this journal is for publishers I focused on things that
publishers could do to facilitate access to various forms of shared
content.  In particular, I propose the development of what I call an
"OA-smart-link" not unlike the Link-Resolvers which facilitate access to
licensed content in libraries. Such a link could be provided after
citations and give the reader one or two click access to the most
accessible version of that article for that user.

    I'll be most interested in thoughts, ideas, reactions.

-john dove
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JohnGDove at gmail.com

Check out my post from 2015 on LinkedIn:  Ways to systematically message
scholars and researchers about Open Access
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove?published=t>
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