[nfais-l] NISO Survey on Discovery Services

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NISO INVITES NFAIS MEMBERS TO PROVIDE INPUT ON DISCOVERY SERVICES

 

The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), a working group of the National
Information Standards Organization (NISO), has been formed to develop a
Recommended Practice related to the index-based discovery services for
libraries. ODI aims to investigate and improve the ecosystem surrounding
these discovery services, with a goal of broader participation of content
providers and increased transparency to libraries.

 

An important component of their work involves gathering information from the
key stakeholders: libraries, content providers, and developers of discovery
products. 

 

If you are involved in discovery services, they invite you respond to their
survey. The survey results will provide essential information to the
workgroup as it develops recommended practices related to discovery
services. A full report on the findings of this survey will be made
available publically on the NISO website later this year.

 

They are especially interested in input from:

 

.         libraries that have implemented or plan to implement a discovery
service and

.         organizations that potentially contribute content to one or more
of these services (such as primary publishers, producers of aggregated
databases of citation or full-text content for libraries, and

creators of abstracting and indexing services)

 

They anticipate that the survey will take about 20 minutes to complete and
it can be accessed at:  <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QBXZXSB>
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QBXZXSB

 

All respondents that identify themselves will be entered into a drawing for
one of six $25 Amazon e-gift cards, kindly sponsored by Ex Libris and SAGE.
These respondents will also receive a copy of the aggregated results. Note
that any results shared will be anonymous and only aggregated data will be
released. 

 

In addition, if you are interested in keeping up to date with ODI, please
sign up to their Interest mailing list that can be accessed at:
<http://www.niso.org/lists/opendiscovery>
http://www.niso.org/lists/opendiscovery 

 

Bonnie Lawlor

NFAIS Executive Director

blawlor at nfais.org

215-893-1561

 

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