Publications. Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways. Image via Wikipedia With the recent surge in library e-book sales, serials aggregators are racing to add e-books to their platforms. ProQuest’s recent acquisition of ebrary and JSTOR’s expansion into current journals and e-books signal a shift from standalone e-book and e-journal aggregator platforms to mixed content gateways, with e-books and e-journals living cheek by jowl in the same aggregation. Meanwhile, researchers have become accustomed to the big search engines, and have shifted from reading to skimming. As the authors of an article in the January issue of Learned Publishing, “E-journals, researchers – and the new librarians,” summarize: Gateway services are the new librarians. . . . These changes in behavior mean that gateway vendors have to develop more sophisticated tools for organizing and surfacing content. As discussed in a recent opinion post in The Atlantic Wire, consumers are recognizing the drawbacks of Google-style search.
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