Improving Access to E-Resources

Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources (+Video)

Roger C. Schonfeld | November 13, 2015

As a returning student in a master’s program, I was excited at the prospect of accessing the wealth of resources a modern research library affords. But the reality has been more frustrating than I could have imagined. Whether logging in from off-site, navigating from ToC alerts or social media, or reading on my phone, I run into stumbling blocks that prevent me from accessing resources that should be available to me. The user experience of working with e-journals and ebooks in an academic setting has failed to keep up with changing practices and preferences for how researchers now expect to access the scholarly literature.

Source: http://www.stm-assoc.org/2015_02_20_STM_Report_2015.pdf

<more at http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/11/13/dismantling-the-stumbling-blocks-that-impede-researcher-access-to-e-resources/; related links: http://www.stm-assoc.org/ (STM: The global voice of scholarly publishing) and http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/meeting-researchers-where-they-start-streamlining-access-to-scholarly-resources/ (Meeting Researchers Where They Start. Streamlining Access to Scholarly Resources. March 26, 2015)>