[GOAL] Facilitating Discovery of Open Content

[John G. Dove]

Sorry, just noticed a typo.

"now everyone care read" should be "now everyone can read".

-john

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Check out my latest post on LinkedIn:  Not all Open Content is fully
Discoverable
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:14 PM, John G. Dove <johngdove at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> John G. Dove, personal e-mail
> 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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