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March 2015 | Issue 13
Midwinter in Chicago
Library Lantern
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Dear Librarian,
Table of Contents
Welcome to the March issue of the Library Lantern!
Record-breaking Snowstorm No Match for Librarians . . 2
We hope that everyone who attended the ALA
Midwinter Conference in Chicago has recovered
from the Day After Tomorrow-like conditions. Our
team is looking forward to meeting you in milder
weather at ACRL in Portland and UKSG in Glasgow.
Join Us at ACRL 2015 in Portland! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
In this issue, look out for some good news about Taylor
& Francis eBooks. On page 4, we invite you to tell your
story with Library Voices. And on pages 9 and 11,
we bring you two articles about our books programme
from two senior figures within Taylor & Francis.
Discover Our Exciting Updates to
Taylor & Francis Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
If you have any thoughts you would like to share on
any of the contents of this issue, please do not
hesitate to get in touch. If you would like to contribute
to a future issue, we would love to hear from you.
Maybe you would like to share initiatives from your
library or tell us about what makes your library special,
or offer your thoughts on a current issue close to the
hearts of librarians. If so, please contact us!
Best wishes,
Library Marketing Team, Taylor & Francis Group
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Taylor & Francis is off to Glasgow! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tell Your Story with Library Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New Open Access Offset Agreement for
Austria Announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Welcome to Taylor & Francis’ New Suite of
Editing Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New for 2015! The Article Pass Now Features
Mediated Access! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Rediscover Taylor & Francis eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Routledge Handbooks Online
– Launched January 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Snapshot of Our Interview with Dr P.Y. Rajendra
Kumar, Director General, National Library, Kolkata . . 8
The Routledge Major Works Programme:
The Library Lantern Asks the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Challenge of Discoverability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Discover Routledge’s Outstanding Academic
Titles 2014! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Where to Find Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Contact Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Record-breaking Snowstorm
No Match for Librarians
The US library conference season started out on a
wintry note, as nearly 20 inches of snow fell on
Chicago during the 2015 ALA Midwinter Conference,
making it the fifth biggest storm on record for the area.
But freezing temperatures, subzero wind chill, and
blizzard-like conditions couldn’t keep attendees or
exhibitors away from the conference, held in Chicago’s
massive McCormick Place convention center.
The show kicked off on Thursday, January 29 with clear
skies and a variety of sessions and committee meetings
during the day, and the conference continued without a
hitch into Friday evening’s ribbon-cutting and opening
exhibits reception.
By Saturday, sessions were in full effect – and so were
the weatherpersons as their predictions for the pending
snowstorm continued to worsen. No matter! Meeting
rooms and the exhibit hall were still jam-packed, as
attendees went to sessions or wandered through the
exhibit hall, chatting with vendors and learning about
the latest industry products.
The ALA MW Auditorium Speaker Series was popular
as always, this year featuring speakers like long-time
educator and children’s literacy advocate LeVar Burton
and actor Jason Segel, who recently made his debut as
a children’s book author with the first book in his series
Nightmares! Segel and Burton spoke about everything
from their experiences with reading and publishing to
technology and how it’s changing education and the
reader experience.
“With a book, there is a collaboration going on – a
collaboration between the words of the author and
the imagination of the reader,” Segel said during his
speaker series. “You’re forced to be creative, and
you’re taking part in this amazing [experience].”
open access to demonstrations of the South Asia
Archive. This year, guest speakers included Silvia Lu,
Reference and Social Media Librarian at LaGuardia
Community College and Zoe Pennway Uno, Reference
and Instruction Librarian at California State University,
Fullerton, who were on hand at the Taylor & Francis
booth to give presentations on their experiences
using social media in their libraries.
And what would a conference in Chicago be without
deep-dish pizza? Taylor & Francis paid homage to
Chicago’s iconic food with a pizza party at the booth,
celebrating the culture of the city and our own love of food.
By Sunday, a February blizzard raged outside the
McCormick Place, dumping more than a foot of snow
over the city and surrounding areas. But the attendees
made the best of it, attending sessions and meetings as
planned, making it, all in all, a productive and exciting
show! Next up in the US, ACRL in Portland, Oregon!
Back in the exhibits hall, Taylor & Francis and other
vendors touted their wares, talking with librarians about
the company’s new and exciting Journal and Books
packages. Taylor & Francis, for one, offered a packed
schedule of daily presentations on everything from
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Join Us at ACRL 2015
in Portland!
Taylor & Francis is delighted to attend and exhibit at the
upcoming Association of College & Research Libraries
(ACRL) conference, to be held March 25-28, 2015 in
the vibrant city of Portland, OR.
This year, Taylor & Francis is celebrating the ecofriendly spirit of Portland and the official theme of
ACRL 2015 – “creating a sustainable community” – with
our very own ‘green’-themed celebration! Be sure to
stop by Booth #143 to chat with our staff and receive a
packet of seeded confetti to plant your own herbs. We’ll
also feature in-booth presentations on everything from
open access to Taylor & Francis Online updates and
new functionality. Plus, enter to win a special Flavor of
Portland gift basket, and one of four gift certificates to
Powell’s Books – the legendary bookstore with four
locations throughout Portland.
#ACRL2015
If you aren’t attending ACRL this year, you can still join
the fun on social media! Follow us at @LibraryLantern
for special access to FREE green-themed articles and
live updates from #ACRL2015.
We’re also running an exclusive contest for our Twitter
followers: watch for the #LibsGoGreen hashtag for an
opportunity to tell Taylor & Francis (and our followers!)
about how your library or institution is going green.
All entries will be automatically entered for a chance
to win a $50 gift card to outdoor retailer Patagonia,
named one of the greenest companies in the world!
Taylor & Francis is off to Glasgow!
It’s that time of year again, marked in every UK librarian’s calendar, where we
get together for the annual UKSG Conference. And this year we’re off to Scotland!
As we look forward to networking with colleagues and discussing industry trends
(and trying out some moves at the Tuesday night ceilidh!), we hope you plan to
visit us at the Taylor & Francis stand.
Pop by stands 90 & 91 during the exhibition breaks to discuss how we can help
you meet your library’s needs; whether that is platform training for your users,
managing your collection development, or hosting a library event.
We will also be providing an energy boost during the morning break on Tuesday,
March 31 to see you through sessions until lunchtime – join us on stand for the
complimentary Taylor & Francis Big Breakfast.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Tell Your Story with Library Voices
Have you ever wondered what it
would be like to work in a library in
another country? What would you
learn and what lessons would you
bring back? With Library Voices, you
won’t have to travel far to find out.
In collaboration with the global
library community, Library Voices
aims to capture stories from
academic librarians around the
world, focusing on what their library
roles entail, how they are changing,
and to demonstrate the positive and
considerable contribution libraries
are making to the research
community, particularly those in
developing regions.
This output will primarily be a
collection of short videos, but will
also include audio recordings,
images, and text-based accounts.
The accounts will be collated to
create a growing online resource
which will provide interest,
inspiration and insight into the roles
of librarians working in different
New Open Access Offset
Agreement for Austria Announced
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian
Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien
Österreich, KEMÖ), and Taylor & Francis Group have
announced a two year pilot which will offset article
publishing charges paid by the Austrian Science
Fund against subscription costs for KEMÖ members.
This offset amount will be used by the Austrian
Academic Consortium members to reduce the costs
of their new or existing subscriptions. In so doing, the
agreement allows Taylor & Francis Group to fully
institutions around the world.
Want to tell your story? Would you
like to explain how your library and
role is changing to accommodate
new technology? Do you have a
different and unusual way of
connecting with your library patrons?
Or would you simply like to explain
a little about the everyday work you
undertake in your library?
To feature in Library Voices, contact
us at [email protected]
to find out how to get involved.
acknowledge the funding provided by FWF for
researchers to publish on an open access basis in
the hybrid journals that make up Taylor & Francis
Group’s Open Select program.
Ian Jones, Journals Sales Director for the UK, Europe,
Middle East and Africa at Taylor & Francis Group, said,
“Our agreement with The Austrian Science Fund and
the Austrian Academic Consortium enables us to
continue our policy of developing effective open
access publishing models for all concerned, publisher,
institution and funder. We’ve welcomed the opportunity
to discuss and develop this agreement with our
Austrian colleagues, and look forward to ensuring it
works effectively for all throughout this pilot phase.”
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Discover Our Exciting Updates to
Taylor & Francis Online
Explore open access
articles with the new
navigation tab
You can now easily discover every
open access article published in
a hybrid subscription and open
access journal, as part of the
Taylor & Francis Open Select
publishing program.
Open Select articles can now be
found via the navigation tab in the
left hand bar of any subscription
journal that has open access
articles published in it. Just look
for ‘Open access articles’, click on
the tab, and it will take you to all
the open access articles within
that journal.
What are you waiting for? Discover
the open access articles in your
favorite journals today:
www.tandfonline.com/
Trust what you’re reading
with CrossMark
After extensive trialing, Taylor &
Francis has rolled out CrossMark,
a verifying tool from CrossRef,
across Taylor & Francis Online.
Simply click on the CrossMark icon
to find out if what you’re reading is
the most current version of record.
And if it’s not, there will be a link to
the most current version that you
can follow. CrossMark is now
available on all journal content
published from January 1st, 2014.
See our press release for
more information.
Highlight and annotate
research online with
colwiz iPDF
Reading a research article is far
from a passive experience.
Researchers mark sections of text
and write critical comments on
printed copies, which can be lost,
and not easily shared. But you can
now annotate PDF documents as
you read them with the colwiz
Interactive PDF Reader (iPDF).
Using a series of interactive tools,
you can highlight text, write notes,
and draw directly on articles – just
as with a printed copy. There are
two new buttons on Taylor & Francis
Online to enable the features of
colwiz: “View & annotate PDF” and
“Add to colwiz Library”. By saving
your annotated iPDF in your
personal colwiz library, you will
never have to worry about where
you placed your notes again.
For more information, visit
http://bit.ly/tf-colwiz.
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Welcome to Taylor & Francis’ New Suite
of Editing Services
Make the process of preparing and
submitting a manuscript to a journal
easier with Taylor & Francis Editing
Services, offering authors:
•English language editing
•Translation (from Chinese,
Spanish, or Portuguese into
English, and from English into
Chinese, Spanish, or Portuguese)
•Manuscript formatting
•Figure preparation
Provided by Research Square,
Taylor & Francis Editing Services
offers high-quality manuscript
editing alongside language
expertise, and a deep knowledge
of the author’s subject area. All
our editors are active researchers
from the most reputable US-based
universities, who pass a rigorous
selection process and have
extensive training. Every editor is
able to offer expertise in both
The Article Pass Now
Features Mediated Access!
The Taylor & Francis Article Pass is an initiative that enables users to
access the Taylor & Francis journal articles they need via a pre-paid
system, providing a gateway to a wealth of unsubscribed content.
subject matter and language,
taking the headache out of
preparing a paper for submission
to a journal, and leaving you to
focus on your research.
Find out more at
www.tandfeditingservices.com.
NEW
for 2015!
Our latest update enables administrators to choose a “mediated”
access option whereby use of the Article Pass is restricted to specific
individuals within their institution. This means that only approved users
can draw down and use the Pass.
For more information, visit
www.tandf.co.uk/libsite/productInfo/journals/articlePass.
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REDISCOVER
tandfebooks.com
With over 50,000 eBooks from imprints including
Routledge, Psychology Press, and Focal Press,
Taylor & Francis eBooks is the premier platform for
your patrons to find the information they need.
In addition, in 2015 a wealth of new functions are
now available on the site, with powerful filtered
search options allowing users to intuitively reach the
most relevant content.
All titles purchased by your institution from March 1,
2015 onwards on Taylor & Francis eBooks will be
DRM-free: meaning that your patrons can access
and use these titles without restriction, including
unlimited concurrent sessions. In addition, the
majority of titles already purchased by your institution
on Taylor & Francis eBooks will become DRM-free.
To celebrate, we have made over 150 titles
free-to-view to you and your patrons until the end of
April. Visit www.tandfebooks.com/page/rediscover.
Whether you are an existing customer, or have not yet
considered using Taylor & Francis eBooks, two-month
free trials are available – Request Free Trial.
Launched January 2015
We have been delighted with the initial
response to the launch of our new
handbooks platform. Currently being
trialled by over 200 institutions in
29 countries, it provides quick access
to more than 320 handbooks and
11,000 chapters. These peer-reviewed
handbooks provide a definitive overview
of 300 topics and are the perfect
starting point for students wishing to
deepen their understanding.
To request a trial at your institution visit:
www.routledgehandbooks.com
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SNAPSHOT of Our Interview with
Dr P.Y. Rajendra Kumar, Director General,
National Library, Kolkata
Dr P.Y. Rajendra Kumar started as
a young librarian in National
College, Bangalore, and currently
holds the position of Director
General of the largest public library
in India – the National Library,
Kolkata. Dr Kumar’s journey has
been one of many learnings,
collaborations, disappointments,
successes and achievements.
Thank you so much for meeting us
today. Please talk us through a
particular challenge from your
professional life that you remember
fondly today as you look back.
Life is always built through and on
challenges. A smooth sea never
made a skillful sailor. About 40 years
ago, I was posted in Raichur as a
District Library Officer. I landed in
Raichur one morning only to find
that there wasn’t even a building
formalized for a library. Instead of
waiting for things to happen, I not
only located a probable venue for
a building, I was successful in
convincing my seniors to open a
library there. From arranging for
tables, chairs, and books, and
eventually opening a beautiful
children’s section, the whole
experience was a very gratifying one.
How important are public libraries in
reaching out to rural and marginalized
sections of the society?
Very important. Public libraries
have the potential to bridge the gap
between the ‘information poor’ and
‘information rich’ by ensuring that
people from all sections of society
have easy access to the knowledge
they seek. Libraries should not
limit their benefits to the few
English-knowing readers, but should
see to it that their good work
permeates through to the many,
especially the rural population of
the country.
As a Chief Librarian, I am proud
of having started the Rural Mobile
Library with the support of Kodagu
District Administration. These
mobile libraries reached out to
the farthest of rural areas and
ensured that the love of reading
was instilled in people of all age
groups and generations.
What is your message for the young
librarians of today?
Work hard with all sincerity and
success will come to you.
To read the full interview, explore issue five of IGNITE, the librarians’ newsletter for South Asia.
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Dominic Shryane is Senior Editor, Routledge Major Works. Dominic talks
to the Library Lantern about the Routledge Major Works programme, and
about his role.
What is a Routledge Major Works
collection?
Designed to meet research,
reference, and teaching needs
across the humanities and social
sciences, Routledge Major Works
collections gather together the best
and most influential work on
particular concepts, subjects, and
individuals. Each Routledge Major
Works collection is edited by a
leading scholar in the field to create a
‘mini library’ – generally a set of four
or five volumes. The sets consist of a
careful selection of previously
published articles from a variety of
journals, excerpts or chapters from
previously published books, and
materials from other sources which
together provide users with historical
purchase on the concept, subject, or
individual in question, as well as a
thorough overview of current issues.
(The Routledge Major Works
programme also includes a number
of facsimile series on topics such as
the History of Feminism and the
Cultural Formations of the Eighteenth
Century. These series republish
facsimiles of books and other
documents to bring rare or
overlooked material back into print
and make it available to a wider
readership. As well as making
accessible scarce material, the
collections also provide a sturdy
substitute to save wear and tear on
fragile items in special library
collections; the reprints fulfil the
needs of many researchers and
reduce handling of the originals.
These collections also offer an
affordable alternative to antiquarian
materials that are beyond the
budgets of many libraries.)
Each Routledge Major Works
collection begins with a substantial
editorial introduction which places
the assembled material in its
appropriate historical and intellectual
context. Save, of course, for the
historical facsimile series, Routledge
collections are carefully reset in
modern type for ease of reading.
They are also comprehensively
indexed and include chronological
tables of contents.
Why should a library invest in
Routledge Major Works collections?
By bringing together canonical and
cutting-edge material to create
unique, one-stop reference resources,
the Routledge Major Works publishing
programme provides scholars – and
other researchers – with easy access
to an authoritative compilation of the
key items of scholarly literature,
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material that is often not widely
available, is inaccessible, or is
scattered throughout a variety of
specialist journals and books. With
material gathered into one easy-to-use
set, students and scholars can spend
more of their time with the actual
journal articles and other pieces,
rather than on time-consuming (and
sometimes fruitless) archival searches.
Libraries will want to acquire our
collections for these practical
reasons but also because they can
be assured that an expert editor
(often from a world-class academic
institution) has carefully sifted a
morass of material to compile a
well-organized compendium of the
essential scholarship in a particular
field or about a given individual.
This curatorial process helps library
users to discriminate the useful from
the tendentious, superficial, and
otiose. (And, in our digital age,
when the Internet is so often full of
sound and fury signifying absolutely
nothing, this facility is arguably more
important than ever.)
How do you decide which topics to
publish in?
With the help and guidance of our
more learned editorial colleagues
(and our publishing friends in key
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I do, however, have a particular fondness for the
Routledge Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
(2001). I’m immoderately proud of obtaining
permission from the late, great John Bellany to use
his ‘Elegy’ as a cover illustration.
territories like Japan), we attempt to
mirror current research and teaching
priorities. Slightly more ambitiously,
we also pursue topics that may not
have quite reached such maturity.
For instance, Routledge Major Works
has been in the avant-garde of
publishing in areas such as Positive
Psychology and Celebrity Studies.
Can you talk a bit about the process
of creating a new Routledge Major
Works collection? What are some of
the specific challenges?
Once we’ve decided on a topic, the
challenge is to identify a well-qualified
individual to edit the collection, and to
persuade that individual to take on the
job. Much more significant challenges
then follow. The project must be
delivered to specification, within
budget, and on schedule. It must then
be carefully edited, printed, and
warehoused. Most importantly, every
collection must be marketed and sold
with brio and gusto.
What are some of the Major Works
collections that you’re most proud of
or that you think are most notable,
and why?
Of our Major Works collections, I
think it would be invidious to make
such a choice. I do, however, have a
particular fondness for the Routledge
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
(2001). I’m immoderately proud of
obtaining permission from the late,
great John Bellany to use his ‘Elegy’
as a cover illustration. Before
speaking to Bellany on the blower,
I had an irrational fear of
communicating with my elders
and betters. Now I am truly saved!
once told me (rather bitterly) that
academic publishing is full of people
who failed to get firsts, but, while I
most definitely don’t consider myself
a scholar manqué, I do believe that
the voyage of the mind is the most
important and sane one, and, looking
back, I reckon my twentieth-century
self thought that working for
Routledge would help with such a
journey. I’m not so sure now, but,
when it comes to paid labour, I’m a
follower of Quentin Crisp (beatae
memoriae) – I’ve been given a job of
work and I don’t intend to leave until
I’m asked to do so.
What’s been the career path that has
brought you here?
Less of a path and more a rabbit
hole, I think. Like many others,
I sought in our kind of publishing an
occupation without the stigma of
trade. A publishing director at OUP
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The Challenge of Discoverability
David Cox, Director of Digital Publishing & Development, Routledge Books
In my role, discoverability keeps me awake at night.
This one word is vitally important to all of our customers
regardless of their geographical location or interest – be
they a Vietnamese librarian, an Irish professor, a Danish
researcher or an American undergraduate. Getting it
right is complex, and quickly becomes caught up in
detail. So, where to start when trying to define this
vexatious word? How about a lion attack?
The arresting image below depicts a famous incident in
the life of Victorian explorer Dr David Livingstone. He
travelled to Africa and began his explorations not
knowing what would happen or where he would end up.
This is the essence of discoverability in a publishing
context – which has been neatly defined as “the
process by which a book appears in front of you at a
point where you were not looking for that specific title.”
The key to discoverability is metadata, and that can in
turn be broken down into bibliographic and semantic
metadata. Bibliographic metadata relates to the typical
completed fields of a MARC record: title, author,
publication date, extent, and so on. As any librarian
would know, the quality and timeliness (or otherwise) of
the typical publisher-supplied MARC record is variable
to say the least – and that’s why we’re spending so
much time getting better at complying with emerging
industry standards (such as KBART).
Publishers tend to be fairly confident with the
bibliographic branch of metadata at the title level, but at
the sub-title level (a chapter, or an encyclopaedia entry)
it gets less certain, prompting questions like ‘how should
we best structure a chapter DOI?’ and ‘if an eBook is on
two different platforms, to which one should we point the
reader?’ And that’s before you get into non-textual assets
such as video clips, images or diagrams.
Semantic metadata is even more challenging. I’m
responsible for Taylor & Francis eBooks, a platform that
will host 100,000 titles by the end of the decade. Broken
down to the chapter level, a conservative estimate is that
the site will host 3 million or more items. Each piece of
content, be it at the title level or the sub-title level, needs
to be semantically discoverable. That means it should be
located within a hierarchical subject taxonomy, as well as
associated with meaningful keywords.
In this way it importantly differs from ‘findability’: how a
book with which one is already familiar is found. For
example, if I was to search for All the Pretty Horses by
Cormac McCarthy, I would most likely try some
combination of the title and author name. But if I
wanted to ‘discover’ this book without knowing its
existence, how would I best approach this? I might type
in ‘horses’, ‘Mexico’, ‘violence, and ‘cowboy’ – and get
nowhere close. And in trade publishing the problem is
far less acute than in academic – so what’s the answer?
On the frontlist we’re asking our authors to help.
On submission of each chapter, they are asked to
complete a brief online survey, which contains the
subject taxonomy we share with our Journals business
so that they can accurately pinpoint their content, as
well as free text boxes to enter keywords beyond the
taxonomy. These keywords multiply complexity, but are
necessary and important. No taxonomy could contain
the name of every possible author or poet or
playwright, but a chapter on The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock would be incomplete without the tag ‘T S Eliot.’
Then you’re into issues of disambiguation – one author
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might tag the poet as ‘Eliot’, or ‘Eliot, T S’, or they might
use full stops, or they might say ‘Thomas Stearns’…
On the backlist the main issue is scale. We cannot
go back to all of our authors and ask them to tag
their content retrospectively for a variety of reasons,
including the fact that our backlist extends back to
the 18th century. The best alternative is to work with
third parties whose machine-based semantic
enrichment practised are built on decades of academic
research into machine learning and linked data
management. This stimulates conversations about
controlled vocabularies, data triples and ‘spiders’
– the latter relating to artificially intelligent software
that can read, understand and tag vast quantities of
academic content.
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One last thing – a note on Google. Recently, Google
Scholar delisted our eBooks site from their search
results. That led to a call with their West Coast offices,
during which we heard that Google are no longer
indexing academic books on Scholar for reasons that
remain unclear. Part of our mission is to maximise
discoverability by getting our metadata everywhere –
existing outside Google’s ecosystem runs contrary to
that aim.
No wonder this all keeps me awake at night, but it is
worth noting how useful our discussions with librarians
are for helping us identify and thereafter solve the
various challenges of discoverability. For that you have
my sincere thanks, and here’s to further conversations.
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