<div dir="ltr">Edmonds is dropping bX.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Lauri Kram</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Director, Learning Resources</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Edmonds Community College</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">20000 68th Ave West</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Lynnwood, WA  98036-5999</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">425-640-1522</font></div><div><font face="Tahoma"></font> </div><div><font face="Tahoma"></font> </div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Fuhrman, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timf@bigbend.edu" target="_blank">timf@bigbend.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">So are most folks keeping bX or dropping it?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>From:</b> Anderson, John W. <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Fuhrman, Tim <<a href="mailto:timf@bigbend.edu" target="_blank">timf@bigbend.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> bx<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">The bX™ Recommender is a service that helps the users to discover relevant literature that they would not have found otherwise. Based on the <a href="http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/?catid=%7b6065F62A-E435-4936-AFF7-C5A172EA1F48%7d" target="_blank">usage of millions of researchers</a> around the globe and starting from the article the user is looking at it checks what other articles were used together with it and displays a list of relevant articles.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">The articles may be from different journals, publishers and platforms and may even carry different keywords. bX recommendations are a  valuable extension to the user’s own research: the user finds an article, bX finds more for them.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">Web-savvy users are already well accustomed to usage-based recommendations.  Found on commercial websites such as Amazon.com, these  recommendations have become highly popular with users. Focused solely on the scholarly domain, bX recommendations are based on actual usage data.  It is the first service to provide highly granular recommendations that point to specific scholarly articles.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">The bX service is brought to you by the same team that created SFX and the OpenURL standard, a collaboration of Ex Libris and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) renowned researchers Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">Empower Your Library Users</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">with Web 2.0 Recommendations</span></strong><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d">By offering the bX Recommender, your library steps up to serve your patrons with a valuable tool that meets user expectations for up-to-date, Web 2.0-type services, providing recommendations that are:<u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-left:51.0pt;line-height:13.5pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:normal"><span><img width="9" height="9" src="http://PicExportError" alt="*"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:normal">Relevant: based on the analysis of millions of transactions related to the context of the user’s work<u></u><u></u></span></h3><h3 style="margin-left:51.0pt;line-height:13.5pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:normal"><span><img width="9" height="9" src="http://PicExportError" alt="*"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:normal">Up-to-Date: include current scholarly material down to the article level<u></u><u></u></span></h3><h3 style="margin-left:51.0pt;line-height:13.5pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:normal"><span><img width="9" height="9" src="http://PicExportError" alt="*"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5d5d5d;font-weight:nor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