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Crafting a Path to Enhanced Open Access Book Discoverability: Strategies at BCU Lausanne
Event part
Conference
Abstract
As a public institution with a cultural and academic vocation, BCU Lausanne is ideally positioned to facilitate the adoption of Open Access resources among academics and the general public. However, librarians had been blindly relying on collections in the Alma Community Zone and Central Discovery Index for OA book discovery. Recently, careful observation revealed this strategy to be detrimental to OA book visibility and usability. We worked to better understand the OA book dissemination landscape, as well as metadata issues specific to OA books, to better inform our activation choices. We adapted our practices to optimize the use of CZ and CDI collections, while ensuring visibility for titles outside these tools. In this session we will illustrate the problems we observed, outline the steps we take to ensure availability of relevant titles while avoiding duplicate records, and detail the choices we made to balance staff time with enhanced discovery and a more positive user experience.
Track
User Experience / Discovery
Products or Areas of Focus
Central Discovery Index
Consortia
Primo / Primo VE
Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d4574adc221e31311d6d805578265a8a.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Jan Sandink, Electronic Resources Librarian, BCU Lausanne")
Jan Sandink, Electronic Resources Librarian, BCU Lausanne
LinkedIn URL
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1e68dd9d28c38cc9d4286bac5ca3be39.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Mireille Pochon, Electronic Resources Librarian, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne")