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Supporting digital scholarship using metadata and vendor knowledgebases to market library publications
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 9:25 AM–9:40 AM CST
Room 204
Conference Track
7. Library as Publisher
Keywords
Library vendors, Knowledgebases, Digital Scholarship
Learning Objectives
- By the end of this session, users should be able to understand:
- The requirements of acting as a publisher within library knowledgebases
- The benefits of acting as a publisher within library knowledgebases
Abstract
BC sought a way to gain better control over how its open access titles were represented in the Alma knowledgebase. The result was the investigation of submitting the collection as a publisher to the vendor side of the knowledgebase. This also gave BC an unexpected marketing tool.