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How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals

Summary Edition

Comparing the changing user behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and its impact on

publisher web site design and function.

By Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger

Published by Renew Training

Copyright © Renew Training, Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger

ISBN 978-0-9573920-3-8

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work would have not been possible without the support of the following

organisations, who between them executed hundreds of thousands of

invitations to journal readers asking them to participate in this survey. Our

heartfelt thanks go out to them all.

BMJ Group

CABI

Cambridge University Press

IOP Publishing

Nature Publishing Group

Palgrave Macmillan

Publishing Technology

RSC Publishing

SAGE


TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 1

Table of Contents 2

Introduction 3

Methodology 4

Demographics 5

Discovery Resource Preference 8

Discovery Resource Conclusions 16

The Role of the Library 18

Search Engine Preference 20

Device Preference 21

App Use 22

Publisher Web Site Features 23

Conclusions 24

About the Authors 25


INTRODUCTION This summary report is the output of a large scale survey of journal readers

(n=19064) about journal content discovery conducted during May, June and

July of 2102. While statistics and analytics can tell us some of this

information, there are many gaps in the knowledge that these can provide

which we have endeavoured to fill by asking readers what how they discover

journal content.


METHODOLOGY This research carries on from, and expands upon, previous research

undertaken in 2005 and 2008 (also by Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner) and

attempts to follow the trends in behaviour over that period of time.

Naturally, each time the survey is repeated, the authors have sought to

keep the questions as consistent as possible with the questions in earlier

surveys whilst keeping terminology current and tracking new developments.

For this reason the three key questions on reader behaviour were modified a

little, some options being reclassified and additional options created.

However, since those questions don’t limit how many starting points the

reader acknowledges as being important, this approach should have minimal

impact on the results for any option present in the survey all the way from

2005 to 2012. Other questions were dropped completely, since the

conclusions from these in 2008 are now so widely accepted as fact (and

easily checked with analytics) that these were not tested. These included

asking readers where links from discovery products would take them in

publisher web sites, the answer being predominantly at the article level.

The full methodology is available in the full report available at:

www.renewtraining.com/how-readers-discover-content-in-scholarly-

journals.htm

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DISCOVERY RESOURCE PREFERENCE In designing a journal’s online presence, a publisher needs to gain an

understanding of how readers will navigate to the journal and at what part

of the journal web site they will arrive. This will help inform decisions on

which partners to work with, how to distribute essential data to them, and

how to design web pages within a journal web site that meet the needs of

readers wherever they arrive within the site.

This research focuses on three main forms of reader behaviour with respect

to journals; citation searching, core journal browsing, and subject searching.

Given these different approaches to the literature, researchers select their

most appropriate starting points on the internet (described extensively in

the full edition of this report at www.renewtraining.com/how-readers-

discover-content-in-scholarly-journals.htm) and navigate to journal content.

The combination of where readers want to perform certain functions (such

as search) and on which pages within a journal web site that the reader

“lands” as a consequence of their navigational behaviour sheds light on the

design and feature-set of a journal’s web presence. It also helps inform

publishers as to which kinds of starting points they should seek to enable

first, for the greatest possible return in reader traffic.

For each type of behaviour this research tested, the survey asked about a

number of different starting points. An explanation of these starting points is

included in the full report. See www.renewtraining.com/how-readers-

discover-content-in-scholarly-journals.htm

CITATION SEARCHING

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with a citation seem to know their subject areas well enough to go directly

to the web site of the journal to follow up on the citation, whilst the use of

library web pages in this regard is in steady decline over the period. Web

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the publisher’s website or the journal’s homepage to look up a citation. More

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readers of online journals seem to have become much savvier about their

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CORE JOURNAL BROWSING

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marketing strategies resulting in readers becoming more familiar with

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homepages, the latter of which has shown a significant change since 2005.

As in previous years, all of these methods have a value to someone but the

most popular method in this comparison is Abstract and Indexing databases.

The full report shows the results for all respondents to the 2012 survey and

shows demographic breakdowns by region, income bracket, subject area,

job role and sector. In addition it shows the correlation in search behaviour

between subjects. See www.renewtraining.com/how-readers-discover-

content-in-scholarly-journals.htm

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A&Is are seen to be the most important starting point for many subject

areas across many sectors in search, and also an increasingly common way

of following up on a known citation. The trend since 2005 is positive in all

three modes of use studied, although some subject areas are much better

served than others.

LIBRARY WEB PAGES (PREVIOUSLY LIBRARY OPAC)

Investment in library technology seems to be having a positive impact on

the use of library web pages in search, while as a means of viewing the most

recent articles in a subject niche, popularity remains flat. Readers seem to

be turning away from these resources as a means of following up on a

citation.

A JOURNAL COLLECTION, OR AGGREGATION (NEW IN THIS SURVEY)

Journal aggregations overall are important, but not as important as many

other discovery methods, until one starts to look into some subject

disciplines and other demographics where they are more popular.

A COMMUNITY WEB SITE (NEW IN THIS SURVEY)

Across the board, community web sites such as Mendeley and Researchgate

are used much less than other starting points for all three behaviours. This

could be because they are relatively new and have yet to build up the brand

recognition and penetration needed to compete with some of the other

resources.

WEB PAGES MANAGED BY A KEY RESEARCH GROUP

Key research groups are also used less than other starting points, although

they are more important than community web sites. This could be because

they generally appeal to smaller subject niches so when we look at the

results more broadly, they are relatively unimportant. However, when

looking at the trend graphs, they have grown in importance for all three

types of behaviours studied.


A PUBLISHER’S WEB SITE

A publisher’s web site has become more important for looking at latest

articles in core journals over time. For the other two types of behaviours

their importance has remained static.

EMAIL BASED ALERTS

For all three types of behaviour, email based alerts have decreased in

popularity since 2005. However, when looking at them in comparison to

other resources in absolute terms they are still important for looking at the

latest issues of core journals.

THE JOURNAL’S HOMEPAGE

The journal’s homepage has remained important for looking up a citation;

this hasn’t changed over time and is as important as an academic search

engine, and more important than a general search engine. It has slightly

grown in popularity for discovering latest articles and searching.

GENERAL WEB SEARCH ENGINES

General web search engines have grown very slightly in popularity for

people looking up a citation, grown slightly more for people discovering

latest articles but decreased in popularity for people searching. This could be

because search engines have been separated out this year to general and

academic.

ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES (NEW FOR THIS SURVEY)

When following a citation, academic search engines are the second most

popular resource across the board. They are less important for people who

want to discover latest articles; they are more likely to use the journal home

page, journal alerts, a publisher’s web site or an A&I. When searching, an

academic search engine is the second most popular resource.

SOCIETY WEB PAGES

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providing the highest aggregate response to the survey. Readers in Malaysia

are highly aware of library technology, much more so than any other

country, with the possible exception of Australia. Awareness in Canada, US

and Australia is more on a par. There is an indicative result that awareness

is lowest in Germany, Japan and China which either indicates that take up in

these regions is low or it is so unobtrusive, readers are not aware of how the

library affects discovery. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, awareness in Iran

is relatively high which supports the view that the Middle East is becoming

an important market for library technology.

The full report shows further demographic breakdowns. See

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journals.htm

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CONCLUSIONS It is widely acknowledged that readers arrive on publisher web sites from a

discovery resource at the article level, and for a few years now publishers

have been building web sites that expose vital functionality to the reader on

that landing page. However, search on the publisher web site is persistently

popular, not just on external discovery platforms, and indeed the number of

readers who bookmark key pages in publisher web sites, or simply

remember them, shows that publishers need to keep a multitude of

navigational paths open to their readers. Moreover, this research shows that

the relative importance of all of these paths vary from subject to subject,

from region to region, and by job function. Multidisciplinary publishers need

to take special note of keeping an open mind to reader navigation while

perhaps more specialist ones could take a more decisive approach.

A key measure of publisher success is the usage of its e-journals, which can

be maximised by influencing and enabling all the routes to its content.

Library technology plays a key role in user navigation, as well as the more

apparent starting points such as Google or major subject A&I databases.

Publishers need to support all conceivable routes to their content through

the web. This can best be achieved through the distribution of XML header

information to as many discovery platforms as possible, through RSS feeds,

collaboration with CrossRef, library technology vendors and through working

with major gateways, A&Is and search engines.

As metadata distribution is maximised and users are able to choose more

freely their preferred routes to content, many of the advanced features that

users require seem to be migrating to their chosen discovery platforms

leaving the publisher site ever more as a content silo, without the need for

quite so many of the advanced features that are currently present there.

However, publishers remain under pressure to maintain a high level of

functionality to ensure that they engage with content buyers, authors and

editorial boards.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS Simon Inger has worked in the journals industry for over twenty-five

years. In this time, he has worked for Blackwell, CatchWord, Ingenta and,

since 2002, as an independent consultant. Simon was Founder and

Managing Director of CatchWord Ltd, the world’s largest e-journal platform

of the time, from its inception in 1995 to its sale to Ingenta in 2001. Simon

has worked extensively in journal sales, marketing and pricing; e-journal

delivery and platform selection; fulfilment and editorial systems selection;

business reviews; management; financial planning; product development;

market research; content development; and library technology. In addition,

he runs training courses for librarians in the UK and Ireland on e-journal

technology and management, as well as courses for publishers on best

practice in e-journal dissemination. Simon’s clients include societies,

university presses and commercial publishers from across Europe and North

America.

Tracy Gardner has over fifteen years’ experience in marketing and

communications. She has a very broad view of the industry having worked

for publishing technology companies (CatchWord and Ingenta), a not-for-

profit publisher (CABI Publishing) and a consultancy company (Scholarly

Information Strategies) where she worked on various projects for

publishers, intermediaries and libraries. Throughout her career she has been

focussed on improving the communication channels between publishers,

intermediaries and librarians and understands the business of scholarly

publishing from many different perspectives. She now has her own company

and offers consultancy and training services to those involved in the

scholarly publishing industry. Tracy has been a co-trainer on UKSG’s E-

Resources Technical Update course since the beginning of 2007.

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