Digital Library Systems Group

Mission

To create digital information technology for the advancement of study, research and scholarly productivity, copyright law compliant technology that:

  • Maximizes utilization of scholarly library collections content by:
    • providing tools that substantially outperform search engines in identifying the most relevant content
    • removing technological inefficiencies from the research process (e.g. by providing instant access to relevant content with minimal user actions)
    • interconnecting thousands of library collections with advanced new technology
  • Supports scholarly researchers, authors and publishers in creating and delivering the highest quality content to the maximum number of researchers, students, scholars, and library patrons.

History

In 2004, DLSG sold its first KIC, BSCAN ILL, and Opus systems. Ten years later, nearly 70% of students at US universities were served by DLSG digitization systems (90% by budget), and public libraries were beginning to investigate and learn the value of DLSG technologies. Then, in 2015, DLSG began developing the Digital Library Ecosystem. After five years and over a quarter of a million R&D professional hours invested, the Digital Library Ecosystem is ready, just in time to serve the study and research challenges caused by social distancing.

The Roles of the Librarian in the Digital Age

In the Digital Age, libraries and librarians have new and essential responsibilities. Instant access to Web search results makes it all too easy to disregard more vetted sources of information. Unlike Web-based information, the $100+ billion libraries have invested in collection development over decades and centuries is immutable and [mostly] factual. If only one in ten citizens are informed by [largely] unbiased information, these people can share their findings with friends and family members, perhaps reducing disagreements in our society to just those topics that are actually arguable.

©-Law News

It’s official – Judge Koeltl ruled against simple CDL

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Content Strategies

It’s official – Judge Koeltl has ruled that simple CDL is illegal, on two counts – it is not transformative and it can substantially negatively impact authors and publishers, in violation of ©-Law Section 107 bullet four. DLSG suggests three strategies for substantially improving the quantity and usefulness of content accessed by academic library patrons: 1) TARGET 10% for ©-Law Section 108 access to content; and/or 2) Give your patrons access to HotLinks revolutionary new 2-D full-text SearchMATCHTM with Personal Digital Mind Palace and Collaboration System; and/or 3) use DLSG’s CDL+ with all of its ©-Law Section 107, 108 and 109 compliance features that include the two ©-Law issues cited in Judge Koeltl’s ruling against simple CDL. DLSG’s CDL+ addresses both of these major issues: 1) DLSG’s CDL+ has controls to restrict its use sufficiently to ensure that it does not violate ©-Law Section 107 bullet four; and 2) CDL+ is highly transformative. CDL+ is integrated into DLSG’s Digital Stacks Ecosystem, which includes our revolutionary new HotLinks 2-D full-text SearchMATCHTM discovery system with Personal Digital Mind Palace. In addition, DLSG’s Digital Stacks Ecosystem supports subscription-based content. DLSG’s CDL+ is Highly Transformative. more… DLSG’s CDL+ supports ©-Law Section 107 bullet 4. more… DLSG’s Digital Fence Technology. more… DLSG supports subscription-based content. more…

Unlike Other CDL Systems, DLSG’s Directed Lending is HIGHLY TRANSFORMATIVE – it is fully integrated with DLSG’s KIC Study System and HotLinks Study/Research Tools

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In today’s challenging academic environments, students must be able to study anywhere, any time. Our SKIM feature provides easy reading anywhere with your phone, even for visually impaired.
ReadAlong Audio for Better Retention
Students Increase focus and reinforce retention with ReadAlong Audio, effective on phone, tablet and PC, and move effortlessly between their devices without losing their place and with full Study Progress Monitoring a touch away.
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HotLinks Research Tool leads the way to a whole new era in research, taking hundreds, even thousands of key terms from a hundred or more pages of personal research materials, and performs 2-D full-text SearchMATCH TM on billions of pages of monographs and other content and provides instant access to 100+ results.
Instantly Research Billions of Pages
HotLinks Research Tool leads the way to a whole new era in research, taking dozens of pages of research as input, characterizing all pages, then in seconds, finding the best matches from a billion pages of monographs and other scholarly content. HotLinks then lines the results up for instant access of result after result, one per swipe/click.

DLSG’s transformative and extended Controlled Digital Lending solution costs only under $5,000, can be installed in minutes and supports all your students and up to 10,000 copyrighted items. This solution’s QR code distribution system can be used immediately, while Single Sign-on support (SSO) requires a quick integration. And DLSG is offering free trails.

The most valuable of its transformative features for students is HotLinks Study Tool, which can take an entire textbook chapter as input and instantly provides access to the full text of the most relevant Open Educational Resources (OER) from 1,000 high quality titles, over half a million pages.

For Scholars and Researchers, HotLinks Research Tool provides a revolutionary search-match system that takes up to 100 pages of personal research as input and instantly matches it with billions of pages of scholarly content in the print collections of your library and the libraries of other Digital Stacks Project members. HotLinks instantly finds 100 matches representing the most relevant content from billions of pages. Researchers are able to find valuable content that they would never find with standard search systems.

HotLinks Research Tool results can be viewed as ‘sample’ pages from the entire volume that promote copyrighted content that might otherwise remain unknown. For better compliance with the Fair Use section of copyright law, the library can enable the ability for researchers to purchase the full content.

Give Your Students Instant Access
to 1,000 Open Educational Resource Titles

  • LibreTexts
  • An Introductionto Nutrition
  • Bio2 Introduction to Human Biology
  • Biochemistry Free and Easy
  • Biochemistry Free for All
  • Biochemistry Online
  • Biodiversity
  • Biofundamentals
  • Biol3300 Genetics
  • Biology
  • Book Laboratory Exercisesin Microbiology
  • Cascade Microbiology
  • Cells Moleculesand Mechanisms
  • Entomology Lab Manual
  • Enviornmental Science
  • Environmental Biology
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  • Forest Measurementsan Applied Approach
  • General Biology
  • General Microbiology Lab Manual
  • Introductionto Botany
  • Introductionto Enviornmental Science
  • Introductionto Genetics
  • Introductionto Microbiology
  • L C C Introductionto Botany Hawaii Based
  • Microbiology
  • MKBN211 Introductory Microbiology
  • Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
  • Quantitative Ecology A New Unified Approach
  • Information Systemsfor Businessand Beyond
  • International Finance Theoryand Policy
  • Introductionto Business
  • Macroeconomics
  • Principlesof Macroeconomics
  • African American History
  • U S History
  • World History Cultures Statesand Societiesto1500
  • Psychology
  • Introductory Psychology
  • Sociology
  • International Relations Theory
  • Minority Studies
  • International Relations
  • Together The Science Of Social Psychology
  • Mind Body World Foundations Of Cognitive Science
  • A Short Introduction To World Politics
  • Principles Of Microeconomics
  • Biological Anthropology
  • A Primer On Politics
  • Introduction To Human Geography
  • World Regional Geography
  • Social Problems Continuity And Change
  • Language and Culture in Context
  • Discover Psychology a Brief Introductory Text
  • OpenStax
  • Algebra Trigonometry
  • American Goverment
  • Anatomy Physiology
  • A P Biology
  • A P College Physics
  • A P Macroeconomics
  • A P Microeconomics
  • Astronomy
  • Biology
  • Business Ethics
  • Business Law1
  • Calculus Volume1
  • Calculus Volume2
  • Calculus Volume3
  • Chemistry
  • Chemistry Atoms First
  • College Algebra
  • College Physics
  • College Success
  • Concepts Of Biology
  • Economics
  • Elementary Algebra
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Accounting Volume1
  • Intermediate Algebra
  • Introduction To Business
  • Introductory Business Statistics
  • Introductory Statistics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Managerial Accounting Volume2
  • Microbiology
  • Microeconomics
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Physics Volume1
  • Physics Volume2
  • Physics Volume3
  • Pre- Algebra
  • Pre- Calculus
  • Principles Of Management
  • Psychology
  • Psychology-2e
  • Sociolgy
  • Statistics Highschool
  • U S History
  • Bay College
  • English 101
  • English 102
  • History 211
  • History 212
  • FYE103 Career Exploration
  • StanfordUniversityPress
  • American Yawp Volume 1
  • American Yawp Volume 2

Give Your Researchers Instant Access
to Billions of pages of Relevant Content

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KIC Self-serve Digitization Kiosks (digitize for Controlled Digital Lending / DRM)

In addition to supporting new high-speed whole book digitization options that allow the thousands of existing KIC systems in US and Canadian academic and research libraries to digitize up to four whole books per hour with bookmarks and other ADA features, KIC systems provide powerful digital age services such as the ability to reorganize study and research materials, semi-automatically and automatically add citations, and order printed books.

KIC Study System - Part of MyDocs with Controlled Digital Lending (DRM)

KIC Study System dramatically improves study efficiency and effectiveness with 9 study tools and methods, including ReadAlong Audio, computer-assisted skim/review, custom flashcards, study progress monitoring, instant access to Open Educational Resources and scholarly content via HotLinks Research & Study Tools.

The Digital Stacks Ecosystem with Controlled Digital Lending (DRM)

HotLinks Research & Study Tools provide compelling reasons to digitize and KAT Stacks’ virtual reality browsing facility offers 24/7 virtual access to your stacks. Thousands of existing KIC systems in academic and research libraries across the US and Canada support newly released high-speed whole book digitization options that allow up to four whole books to be digitized in an hour with bookmarks and other ADA features. New, highly transformative Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) technologies for local and interlibrary lending interconnect digitized library print collections in ways never before thought possible, allowing thousands of libraries to share in the digitization effort, reducing the cost to about 1% of existing academic and research library budgets.

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The following series of five letters offer actionable recommendations to optimizing academic library content strategies in the context of Judge Koeltl’s ruling against CDL: