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Mobilising e-resources for academics and students
Ruth JenkinsLoughborough University
Alison McNabDe Montfort University
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Context
Declining budgetsDeclining budgets
Demonstrating valueDemonstrating value
Maximising subscription e-contentMaximising subscription e-content
AccessibilityAccessibility
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Why mobile matters
• 77% world’s population is ‘mobile’ [ITU]• c 1bn smartphones will be sold in 2014 [Gartner] • c 10 bn mobile Internet devices by 2016 [Cisco]• Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition
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Loughborough UG applicants
Market research survey in 2011 results:
•98.5% of the sample of potential applicants had mobile phones
•About 46 % of these mobile phones were smartphones:
• 12% Android• 17% iPhone• 17% Blackberry
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Mobilising e-content
Mobile websites or apps?
e-booksfull-textdatabases
journalsA & I
services
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American Institute of Physics app
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American Chemical Society app
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Publisher apps are great but…
• Users have to know who publishes the journals they read & download the right app
• They are often designed for browsing• Need to link with resource discovery (e.g.
Primo, Summon) & reference management (EndNote, RefWorks) software
• May not be available for all platforms• Off-campus access is limited (so not a truly
mobile service!)
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Primo mobile
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Barriers and challenges
PublishersPublishers LibrariansLibrarians UsersUsers
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The librarians’ view March 2012
• No single place listing which publishers have mobile offering
• How to make users aware of the mobile sites/apps available
• Support for large number of interfaces - lack of standardisation. How do you test access problems on multiple devices? Budgets don't extend to purchasing all types of devices let alone ensure these are up to date
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Issues for libraries (cont.d)
• How to integrate mobile optimised links in the library catalogue
• No way to search across apps
• Connectivity issues. Not everyone has or can afford 3G and wireless can be unreliable
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The librarians’ view March 2012
• Multiple authentication processes, hard to explain to users
• Off campus authentication
• Supporting distance learners
• High student expectations
• Licensing restrictions
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The publishers’ view March 2012
• Cost of development
• Pace of technology change
• Whether to create device specific apps…
• …or mobile websites
• Providing user friendly tools to allow libraries and users to get the most out of mobile
• What features to include