Speaker: Joel Mills, Apex CoVantage
GEMS was created for editorial workflow, specifically for managing freelancers. It’s a web-based task/project management tool. There are also some reporting and accounting features.
Speaker: Colleen Hunter, ArtStor
Shared Shelf is a tool for storing and cataloging digital media assets (audio, video, documents, and images). You can choose to use most existing metadata schemas. Access restrictions are flexible to any level.
Speaker: Jean-Gabriel Bankier, bepress Digital Commons
Download metrics was one of the biggest impacts on getting faculty to participate in institutional repositories. They built a near-realtime readership activity map, and it has been well-received by administration. Static images and reports aren’t as effective as live use reporting. Some show it to donors, some display it on monitors in the library.
Speaker: Maya Bystrom, Bevara Technologies
Developing adapters and playback tools for all file types, regardless of whether they eventually become obsolete or not.
Speaker: Tim Williams, Edward Elgar
Research Reviews is their major reference works online. They publish mostly books, but some journals. Their terms are pretty much what librarians have asked for, including ILL. The research reviews direct researchers to seminal works in the field, both books and articles, and links out to those works.
Speaker: Ray Abruzzi, Gale
Working with researchers to data mine the contents of the Gale databases. They may eventually host the data and provide tools to work with it, but for now they are providing the data on portable hard drives directly to the researchers.
Speaker: Greg Cornblue, Harvard UP
Loeb Classical Library covers the important Greek and Latin literature. You can create reading lists with annotations and bookmarks that can be shared with groups or specific users.
Speaker: Howard Burton, Ideas Roadshow
Video interviews with scholars and researchers. There are also ebooks of some sort, self-published it seems.
Speaker: Richard Hollis, IET Digital Library
Engineering content.
Speaker: David Sommer, Kudos
Kudos is a set of tools to increase the discoverability and impact of research. Authors can catalog their work, enhance the metadata, share it on social networks, and see the resulting click data. They are integrated with ORCID and will be incorporating citation data from Thomson Reuters.
Speaker: John Hammersley, Overleaf
Authors are shuffling multiple versions of the same documents over email, dealing with formatting issues, and maintaining the format of citations across different editing tools. Overleaf works like GoogleDocs but is based on LaTeX and can be easily reformatted for whatever style/template you want. There can be real-time collaborative editing, with track changes and commenting. Teachers can send an assignment, and the students can work in the tool to complete and return it.
Speaker: Barbara Olson, ProQuest
Lots of stuff about products with data sets.
Speaker: Jennifer Hopkins, SAGE
SAGE Business Researcher contains reports on relevant topics to introduce students to them. SAGE Business Cases collects case studies. SAGE Video collection to support pedagogical and reference needs, primarily in social sciences.
Speaker: Kendall Barge, Third Iron
BrowZine offers the library’s journal subscriptions in a newsstand format. They have been primarily an app-based tool, but they are developing a web interface with the ability to be embedded in LibGuides, etc.
