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Pull quote: “Could the review article’s organization and analysis of the field be used to improve discovery in other types of research workflows? There is extensive data implicitly present in such pieces about relationships among publications, which could be useful as a signal that articles are related to one another (offering up the possibility of implicitly curatorial in addition to semantic or usage based recommendations). A review’s annotation and discussion of individual sources would be quite valuable as signals for trust if incorporated in a discovery system, much as book reviews serve for monographs in online bookstores and licensed content platforms. Imagine seeing the one sentence blurb from a neutral scholar while conducting a search, or even the secondary social functionalities that could be developed.”

Pull quote: “I also wonder if bringing co-citation analyses into discovery environments would be helpful. In such a case, a researcher could somehow upload to a discovery tool a list of the references seen as most relevant on a topic. An automated analysis of what is most likely to be cited with those works would be returned – not unlike the way that a social network can suggest additional friends.”

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ニュース、カレントアウェアネス

Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries have created a Netvibes ’Universe’ (www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries) to offer current awareness services to its users. Each subject ’tab’ offers the latest contents from a range of print and e-journals available to its users, along with newsfeeds and new books.

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