Recommendations and the Library

ER&L Conference Committee November 8th, 2009

Services recommending books - BibTip, LibraryThing, University of Huddersfield borrowing recommendations, and articles - bX from Ex Libris, PubMed, Synthese (CISTI) now exist in the academic context. JISC in the UK is sponsoring a major project, MOSAIC: “Making Our Shared Activity Information Count.” This session will provide an overview of these recommendation systems, describe their different approaches to data mining, and discuss their role in improving information retrieval and user experience in a now nearly fully online scholarly information world.

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