Please check out our new SHU Links article recommender service known as bX, available on SHU Links menus from 5 March. We have bX on trial until April 1 and we need your feedback to help us evaluate it and decide whether to keep it as a regular service.
It is similar to the Amazon and other recommender services which you may have come across on the internet:
e.g. "Customers who bought this item also bought …"
When you search for a journal article and get the corresponding SHU Links menu, the new bX service shows you other academic material, mainly e-journal articles, which various other users also consulted when they linked to this particular journal article. You will see the text "People who consulted this item also looked at ... " followed by a list of articles which may be helpful to your search. Some of these will offer the article full text and some won't but may still be of interest for follow up.
These "recommendations" are computed from a large external database containing the anonymized article usage information contributed by hundreds of other libraries with the same software as SHU Links. Sometimes there won't be any recommendations but results are continually improving as the usage database grows bigger over time.
When you’ve tried it, we would be grateful if you could pass on your views about this service in one of the following ways:
• the SHU Links feedback form (on any SHU Links menu)
• an email to Alison Lahlafi a.e.lahalfi@shu.ac.uk
No comments:
Post a Comment