This document discusses HighWire's next generation collections and connecting publishers to individual researchers. It describes HighWire's new Stackly tool, which allows researchers to build custom collections across publications and share them. This helps publishers extend their reach beyond individual sites. The document outlines how Stackly captures the full content engagement cycle, including interactions and conversations around publications. It maintains that providing end-user tools that benefit both publishers and researchers is key to connecting to individuals in their workflow.
HighWire Next Gen: Collection Management and Extending Publisher Reach into the Researcher's Workflow
1. HighWire Next Gen: Collection
Management and Extending
Publisher Reach into the
Researchers’ Workflows
Tara Robenalt,
VP Workflow Solutions
HighWire
NISO Virtual Conference: Using the Web as an E-Content
Distribution Platform: Challenges and Opportunities
October 21, 2014
2. HighWire Overview
Publishers 140+
Total Publications currently online 3500+
Journals/other 1746+
Books Online 1800+
Article Count 7,100,000
Issues Published Online daily 83
Ahead-of-print articles daily 500+
Mobile sites 1275+
Free full text articles: 2,300,000
Search Requests Daily 1,000,000
Abstracts viewed per month 101,000,000
Downloads per month 88,000,000
Unique visitors per month 54,000,000
New content alerts per month 12,000,000
Registered Bench>Press Users 700,000
Bench>Press submissions per year 135,000
Data Storage (terabytes) 100
Publication year of oldest content 1665
3
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary
3. In this session…
▪ Collections @ HighWire
▪ Connecting to publishers to individuals—
extending publisher reach into the researcher
workflow
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 3
4. Many types of collection in publishing
Journals
Issues
TOCs
By Format (books,
articles, images)
Search Alerts
By topic
By author
By date range
By issue
By society
org structure
And more…
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 4
5. Some are lasting collections…assign
content to collection when published
▪ Cardiology
▪ Cells
▪ Architecture
What about post-publication grouping?
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 5
6. Some collections are timely…and need
to be distributed quickly!
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 6
9. Why ad-hoc collections?
▪ Provide a rapid response to trending news or
current events
▪ Quickly create on the fly collections for events
like conferences or meetings
▪ Focus collections around high profile authors or
research areas
▪ Use keywords to enhance discoverability for
critical focus areas
▪ Easy to market collection pages with email or
links from other pages
9
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary
10. Example of an auto-generated landing
page (with ad)
10
11. Next Gen Collections @ HighWire…
▪ Collections should be able to…
▪ contain content ACROSS publications
▪ contain content ACROSS multiple formats
(articles, book chapters, images)
▪ be built AFTER publication, quickly!
▪ distribute to sites immediately (indexed in search, auto-generated
landing page)
▪Who should be able to create collections?
▪ Publishers
▪ Readers? Authors?
▪ Advertisers?
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 11
12. What about readers creating (and sharing)
their own collections of content?
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 12
14. Launched in Beta….September 2014
Where scholars can collect, organize, and share
the scholarly content they are most interested in
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 14
15. Launched in Beta….September 2014
Where scholars can collect, organize, and share
the scholarly content they are most interested in
…Where publishers can distribute their collections
to be followed by Stackly members
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 15
16. Next Gen topic #2:
Connecting to the
Individual!
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 16
17. Individuals are making more buying decisions
than ever before!
Popularity of
PDA
Increase in
number of
publications
OA-Author pays
Libraries collect
extensive
usage data
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 17
18. Readers find your content. Then what?
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 18
19. Readers find your content. Then what?
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 19
20. Readers find your content. Then what?
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 20
21. Readers find your content. Then what?
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 21
22. Readers find your content. Then what?
(they leave)
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 22
24. Nextgen: Embrace reader tools that
connect publishers to the readers
▪ A site alone is not pervasive in the reader workflow
▪ Stackly is a tool that adds value for both publishers
and researchers
▪ Build tools to help readers do more of their work on
publisher sites
▪ Make it easy for readers to share and collaborate
▪ Provide visibility of user behavior through reports
Bring the tools to the content.
Bring the content to the tools.
HighWire | Confidential 24 and Proprietary
30. Capture the content engagement cycle
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 30
31. Stackly: Captures the Conversations:
Interactions and impact
HighWire | Confidential and Proprietary 31
32. Nextgen @ HighWire Summary
▪ Collections
▪ Breaking down silos! Make any combo of articles and books
▪ Post-publish collection building for timely events
▪ Quick distribution to site (indexed + landing page) and Stackly
▪ Extend reach further into research workflow
▪ Provide end user tools that benefit publisher and researcher
▪ Give publishers visibility to user behavior around content through
reports
▪ Distribution channels for collections beyond publication sites
▪ Creating conversations around content!
▪ Provide visibility to publisher about user behavior and demographics
behavior data and demographics through reports
HighWire Press -- CONFIDENTIAL 10/22/2014 32
Across all disciplines, publishers (commercial, academic, societies), and business models (subscription and open access)
By analyzing publisher data over the past year, we have deduced that buying power is shifting from the institution to the individual (patrons, readers, authors).
Indicators:
Popularity of Patron Driven Acquisition: Vendors are increasingly pushing PDA to Librarians. Librarians can upsell this feature to individuals, which makes patrons the buying decision maker.
Increase in the number of publications: We have also observed that the number of publications are increasing at a faster rate than library budgets. This means there is more opportunity for readers to buy content, even if they are associated with an institution. This is an upsell opportunity!
OA-Author pays: There is a 15% increase of open access journals in 2013. 50% of the articles are author pays. In this model, the author is the paying customer.
Libraries collect extensive data on individual researchers: Analytics tools are getting much better, so libraries are able to understand their usage data much better. As a result, every action an individual takes is more valuable to the publisher.
18
19
20
21
22
23
A site can not be pervasive in the readers entire workflow
HW understands both publishers and readers.
By providing a pervasive tool directly on the publication site…readers can do their work without leaving
By tracking what readers do at eStacks – PDF views, sharing, collecting, reading – we can share that data with publishers.
Msharma: Change the screenshot
Create public stacks to increase discoverability and site traffic . Whatever collections publishers think users can track, they can create relevant stacks.
Note: you will soon be able to brand your public stack, thus increasing brand loyalty
The readers are taking your content with them now anyway…Stackly is your opportunity to capture the engagement cycle.
--
Content leaves publication site to go to eStacks, and eStacks sends people back for more content.
There are many forms of impact beyond impact factor. Impact and visibility of content are generated by several well understood major factors such as position in search results, citations, media stories, sharing on social sites; but a lot of interactions are not so well understood such as users collecting and keeping the articles for reading again later, layer of commentary that happens with those collected materials, no longer on your sites but still interaction with your content
Going a step further, those comments create conversations that bring in individuals that may have never been to your site
Stackly create opportunity – capturing those interactions and having knowledge of those interactions to feed the impact and discoverability of your content
We will capture those interactions. Not only will you see that they are happening, but other users will see the content more often because of the interactions of others
Each little events become items in someone’s news feed