[LIBRARYDIR] To bX or not to bX

[Kram, LAURI]

Edmonds is dropping bX.

Lauri Kram
Director, Learning Resources
Edmonds Community College
20000 68th Ave West
Lynnwood, WA  98036-5999
425-640-1522



On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Fuhrman, Tim <timf at bigbend.edu> wrote:

> So are most folks keeping bX or dropping it?
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> *From:* Anderson, John W.
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:54 PM
> *To:* Fuhrman, Tim <timf at bigbend.edu>
> *Subject:* bx
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> The bX™ Recommender is a service that helps the users to discover relevant
> literature that they would not have found otherwise. Based on the usage
> of millions of researchers
> <http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/?catid=%7b6065F62A-E435-4936-AFF7-C5A172EA1F48%7d>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *Empower Your Library Users* *with Web 2.0 Recommendations*
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> 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:
> [image: *]       Relevant: based on the analysis of millions of
> transactions related to the context of the user’s work[image: *]       Up-to-Date:
> include current scholarly material down to the article level[image: *]
> Easily Accessible: tightly integrated into scholarly search results
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> *John W. Anderson*
> Library Systems Specialist
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> *William C. Bonaudi Library*
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> Moses Lake, WA 98837
> 509-793-2357
> johna at bigbend.edu
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