Helping to Justify Academic Library Budgets Since 2004
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Two Ways Digital Content is Received
by Our Patrons (2018-2019)
Costs: All KICs / Subscriptions
Benefits: All KICs / Subscriptions
Potential Benefits: ©-Law Section 107 & 108 (f)
Potential Benefits: Advanced Technologies
KIC Fleet Usage Report
Content Received by
Section 107 & 108(f)
Content Received by
Digital Subscriptions
The best ways to achieve 10%
… and justify substantial budget increases are:
Get students to perform more ©-Law Section 108(f) digitization by increasing awareness of the Section 108(f) digitization stations:
a. Place one or more info kiosks near library entrances and where students gather perhaps even outside the library, and configure those kiosks to inform students, faculty and researchers about your KIC self-serve digitization kiosks that are conveniently located near or amongst your print collections.
b. Promote KIC's free MyDocs app to students - MyDocs includes KIC Study System and HotLinks Study Tool with its Personal Digital Mind Palace, which instantly connects students to your Concentrated Collections Areas (CCAs), providing substantially more exposure to your library’s copyrighted content. Hotlinks provides a button for students to use when they are shown only summary information about some copyrighted content that is available in print (for checkout or for copying), but is not part of a digital subscription. The next time the student is in the library, he/she can digitize the content in a few minutes and instantly and flawlessly integrate the content into his/her HotLinks and Personal Digital Mind Palace. This also gets more students into your library, which can further justify budget increases.
Imagine many of your students importing course materials or a textbook chapter into MyDocs, performing a HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH, digitally discovering a chapter of a printed book on your library shelves, a chapter that is highly relevant, but unviewable due to copyright restrictions. Then imagine the student pressing a button to add the item to their digitize TODO list, digitizing the item, then going back to HotLinks and being able to view the item anywhere in the world, forever, legally, even without an internet connection. The value of your print collections will rise instantly. More information on HotLinks can be found below on this Web page.
c. Promote KIC's free MyDocs app for researchers - MyDocs includes HotLinks Research Tool with Personal Digital Mind Palace, which instantly connects researchers to your Concentrated Collections Areas (CCAs), providing substantially more exposure to your library’s copyrighted content. Hotlinks provides a button for researchers to use when HotLinks shows only summary information about some copyrighted content that is available in print (for checkout or for copying), and is not part of your institution’s digital subscription. The researcher can press an [ ILL ] request button and instantly request the content to be digitized by library staff, whether the content is a journal article or a few chapters in a monograph. Upon receipt by the researcher, the content is instantly and flawlessly integrated into his/her HotLinks and Personal Digital Mind Palace. This also gets more researchers to visit your library, which can further justify budget increases. More information on HotLinks can be found below on this Web page.
Place a six to eight station HotLinks with Mind Palace Collaboration System in a reservable collaboration room for collaborative study and research and other content. Each station is a 65 inch floor-standing touch screen. The user’s content appears larger than life on the leftmost touch screen. The screen to its right contains lists of highlights in the user’s content and in items found using HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery. Each highlight is linked to the source, and touching a highlight will result in the content being displayed instantly on one of the remaining 65 inch floor-standing stations. Hundreds of items of interest can be accessed instantly with a touch. Highlights can be shared among HotLinks users and can be printed along with citation information.
Implement a Concentrated Collections Area (CCA) with a high-speed KIC for quick and convenient access to and digitization of excerpts from several thousand of the most frequently accessed books and monographs and hundreds of thousands of frequently accessed journal articles. 1,000 frequently accessed books can be ‘catalogued’ into HotLinks per month by one worker. One worker can also ‘catalogue’ tens of thousands of journal articles into HotLinks per month. More…
Concentrated Collections Areas (CCAs)
Naturally, libraries can't expect to replace much of the content that their patrons are currently getting from publisher subscriptions, but libraries already own vast amounts of copyrighted content in print form, and much of that is not available via subscriptions.
Improving the discovery process...
Until recently, printed content discovery was far inferior to digital content discovery. DLSG solves this problem with cost-effective Concentrated Collections Areas and our revolutionary 2D full-text SearchMATCH discovery and Personal Digital Mind Palace technologies and collaboration system. More...
Note that DLSG can setup a collaborative digitization project for your statewide university system. The resulting system will SearchMATCH all content ingested by all collaborating libraries, but DLSG's digital fences will only allow content to be viewed if the user is in the same place as the content, in compliance with ©-Law § 109(c).
If the user is not in the same place as the item, summary information about the item is displayed along with an [ ILL REQUEST ] button, which allows the user to instantly make a request for the book chapter or journal article from the institution that has the item.
Concentrated Collections Area (CCA)
Getting the Funding
KIC Fleet Manager's new reporting system can provide help getting budget money for systems that you don't already own. Here are example KIC Fleet reports from 2019, prior to COVID.
KIC Fleet Report Examples
Digital Fence is Location-Restricted Digital Display of
Copyrighted Content in Compliance with ©-Law 109(c)
Copyright Law USCODE Title 17 Chapter 1 Subsection 109
THE APPLICABLE LAW
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(5), the owner of a particular copy lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to display that copy publicly, either directly or by the projection of no more than one image at a time, to viewers present at the place where the copy is located.
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476
Historical and revision notes from the House are explanatory notes that provide valuable insight into the intent of the legislation. Judges, lawyers, and scholars use these notes to understand the legislative intent and interpret the law more accurately.
DLSG's Digital Fence works with three other copyright law exceptions technologies to provide seamless discovery, viewing while in the library, and permanent digital distribution of book excerpts and individual journal articles via self-serve and ILL digital copying:
| Discovery Technologies Comparison Chart | Full-Text Search | Artificial Intelligence | HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support for simple key term search/discovery | YES | YES | YES |
| Input of 100+ pages (beyond simple key terms) | NO | YES | YES |
| Correlation 100+ pages of input with billions of pages of scholarly research | NO | YES | YES |
| Instant access to subscription-based content (when on-campus) | NO* | N/A | YES |
| Deterministic algorithms that do not obscure findings from researchers and instead, allow researchers to draw their own conclusions | YES | NO | YES |
| Publisher-power agnostic (does not increase dependency on publishers) | NO | Unknown | YES |
| Integrated with Personal Digital Mind Palace | NO | NO | YES |
For many decades, physical card catalogs were an essential part of the library. Scholarly discovery advanced tremendously with digital card catalogs and journal article abstract search systems such as WorldCat. It’s not surprising that many researchers and librarians thought that it couldn’t get better than that. Then in 2004, scholarly discovery made another tremendous advancement with full-text search of scholarly content, and again, many thought it couldn’t get better.
Yet full-text search has a fundamental limitation – it takes only a few key terms as input. Researchers typically create and acquire hundreds, even thousands of pages of content relevant to their research over months and years. In addition, college students are assigned hundreds of pages of relevant study materials at the beginning of each semester. The next generation discovery system must be able to accept hundreds of pages of content as ‘search’ input.
In the past year, two tremendous new discovery technologies became available, ChatGPT and HotLinks Research Tool, and both of these technologies can take many pages of content as input. HotLinks was built for scholarly research and study and can take hundreds of pages of research or study materials as input, and ChatGPT can also take many pages as input. From that point forward, these two systems differ greatly. ChatGPT can create multiple pages of text output and can even create images. HotLinks exists to serve researchers and college students and as such, does not draw conclusions, leaving that to its users.
The following three diagrams compare Full-text search, ChatGPT and HotLinks.
Inside HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery System
HotLinks extracts thousands of key terms from the input material, including textbook chapters, course materials,research papers, journal articles, monograph excerpts, etc., and performs a search on each of the thousands of key terms. The thousands of results for each of the thousands of search terms are then fed into the HotLinks matching system, which finds the best matches with the input material and sorts those matches by relevance to the source materials. The diagram below illustrates the process.
Note: HotLinks comes preloaded with five million Open Access journal articles and 16,000 Open Access monographs and books, and is ready to connect with your institution’s subscription-based content servers.
DLSG’s Personal Digital Mind Palace allows studentresearcher to highlight relevant content in hundreds of HotLinks SearchMATCH results. In the same and future sessions, navigating between all of the relevant content found in HotLinked journal articles and monograph/book chapters is instant –simply selecting a highlight instantly displays the highlight in the context of the journal article or monograph/book chapter containing it.
In addition, at any time, a studentresearcher can output the highlighted content with citations to the source documents, eliminating the tedium from that process.
Below is a diagram of nine seamlessly integrated and wonderfully interoperable elements of the Digital Stacks Ecosystem, including the world's first relevancy-based discovery system for your print collections, and the world's first Digital Fence implementation of (c)-Law Section 109(c), giving patrons legal access to digital copies of copyrighted content using their own PCs, tablets or phones while the patrons are in the library Together, these two Digital Stacks Ecosystem elements can greatly increase demand for self-serve and staff-performed digitization, making it possible, perhaps even easy, to deliver an extra 20% beyond what the digital subscriptions are providing, at less than half the cost.
If US R1 and R2 Institutions really wanted to, they could reverse the monetization of research sharing and overpriced journals at any time, simply by working together to change the publishing policies of their researchers, and Europe and the rest of the world would gladly join in. Instead, US university leaders have been letting their library budgets slide over the past 35 to 40 years from 3.5% to 1.5% of overall university budgets (on average), and redirecting that 2% to faculty salaries, research budgets, sports teams, etc., leaving their libraries to pay for journal subscriptions. The only explanation for this fairly consistent trend across the US is that university leaders believe they get more return when they invest outside their libraries.
If academic libraries received 3.5% of their university budgets at one time, it can happen again, but only if the libraries return adequate values for the increased investments. The road back to 3.5% must be paved by technology. For over fifty years, the best returns on investments have nearly always been with technological advancements. Only scientific advancements have better returns. The best possible investments R1 and R2 universities can make are in technologies that support and enhance scientific research.
While libraries are responsible for providing discovery for and access to published research, they usually need the review and approval of their institution’s top scientists before investing in any particular technologies. In order for an academic library to attract any of its university’s top researchers, it must have a well-organized presentation of any new advanced discovery systems and tools that it is considering. DLSG understands this and is offering to sponsor two presentations of its revolutionary new HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery system. The first presentation is for students. It also serves as a preliminary presentation during which library leaders can determine which of its university’s researchers are appropriate to invite to the presentation for researchers.
If you would like to host one or both of these presentations, please contact a DLSG customer support representative at 561-886-2977 or CustomerSupport@ImageAccess.com.