posted on 2015-04-30, 14:34authored byValerie Spezi, Claire Creaser, Angela Conyers
Resource Discovery Services (RDS), also called Web-scale Discovery Services, have attracted considerable attention in recent years. This article aims to provide an environmental scan of the adoption of RDS in UK higher education libraries and provide an analysis of RDS resource usage data to gauge whether RDS have an impact on the overall usage of e-journals and e-books. Findings show that there appears to be a positive impact in most cases, although the extent of this impact varies across libraries and publishers. There is undeniably a degree of complexity in the usage analysis owing to the multi-dimensional nature of the environment.
History
School
Business and Economics
Department
Business
Published in
Serials Review
Volume
41
Issue
2
Citation
SPEZI, V., CREASER, C., CONYERS, A., 2015. The impact of Resource Discovery Services (RDS) on usage of electronic content in UK academic libraries: selected results from a UKSG-funded project. Serials Review, 41(2), pp.85-99.
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Publication date
2015
Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Serials Review on 15 June 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00987913.2015.1035991