It’s all about stuff

Why it’s not just aboute-books (or e-journals)

any longer.

…readers

As publishers, vendors, aggregators or librarians, our job is all about getting stuff from authors to …

And this is how it was done, pre-internet . . .

Quality Filter

Published Object

Supply Chain

Discovery, Delivery

Book

Article

Grey stuff

small%

large%

tiny%

Quality Filter

Published Object

Supply Chain

Discovery, Delivery

Book

Article

Grey stuff

small%

large%

Quality Filter

Published Object

Supply Chain

Discovery, Delivery

Book

Article

small%

large%

Grey stuff

tiny%

>>>%

Meanwhile . . .Publishers, Vendors,

Aggregators and Librarians were busily . . .

A&I & subject portals

Publishers

Library portalsContent Aggregators

EconLitRePEc

ScienceDirect

OPACs

IngentaConnect

. . . linking scholarly Sites for Journals and Books to create . . .

. . . A scholarly information network of ebooks and ejournals . . .

Cool!

A&I & subject portals

Publishers

Library portals

EconLitRePEc

ScienceDirect

OPACs

IngentaConnect

Content Aggregators

. . . A ‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . .

ScienceDirect

OPACs

GreyStuff

But I want the grey stuff as well as ebooks and ejournals!. . . A

‘seamless’ service for ebooks and ejournals . . .

And now you have it!

ScienceDirect

OPACs

GreyStuff

Networked ebooks and ejournals

Periodicals Books Working Papers

Data Podcasts

Book

Article

Data

Working Paper

Podcast

File types

Very Cool!

Issues - 1

Quality

FilterGrey Stuff needs to go

through a quality filter too!

Issues - 2

SupplyChai

nGrey Stuff needs metadata to the same standards as

ebooks and ejournals.

Quality Filter

Published Object

Supply Chain

Discovery, Delivery

Book

Article

Grey stuff

large%

small%

Quality stuff

(books, articles,

data etc)

This is why it’s all about Stuff (and not just about ebooks or ejournals)

Unfiltered Grey stuff

Thank you

Toby GreenOECD Publishingtoby.green@oecd.org

www.OECDiLibrary.org