An Optimal Copyright Law Exceptions and Limitations Strategy
Big publishers and the new owners of Overdrive have the best of both worlds - they have monopolistic control
over prices and can claim they are not monopolies because copyright law exceptions and limitations give
libraries alternatives, and most libraries have made insignificant use of these legal alternatives,
compelling the legal system [and most people] to conclude that libraries are becoming less and less
relevant. Journal publishers
even control the most valuable content for artificial intelligence, but their control has exceptions and
limitations in libraries, as specified by copyright law (Title 17, Sections 107, 108 and 109).
However, libraries can choose to fully embrace library technologies that give patrons better alternatives to
what is readily available on the Web, technologies that maximally utilize copyright law exceptions and
limitations. A suite of these technologies now exists, thanks to nine years and over 300,000 engineering
professional hours DLSG has invested to create its Digital Stacks Ecosystem (DSE). Even AI has an important
place in the DSE, especially while patrons are in the library.
Journal Publishing Monopolies are Squeezing Budgets … DLSG has a Strategy
Ingest your print journals into Concentrated Collections Areas and offer … so that students and
researchers can utilize the iDREAM technologies to
enhance study and research.
Input many pages of content
(e.g., textbook chapters, research notes,
journal articles)
Discover relevant textbook, monograph and/or journal articles
from 100+
million pages of open access content and rapidly growing, and copyright controlled content
Retrieve the open access content anywhere,
and when in the library,
copyrighted content from library-owned items
Extract phrases, sentences and paragraphs
from hundreds of items, including
source info, simply by highlighting
Annotate highlighted content
with meaningful notes
Master the content
by effortlessly and instantly navigating between
highlights in hundreds of items
Researchers can, with the touch of a button, instantly make ILL requests
for selected journal articles and for excerpts from monographs.
Eventually, you will be able to demand more print journals from publishers and/or get agreements from
publishers to allow their journal articles to be viewed digitally while in the library and/or allow
article PDFs to be downloaded.
Overdrive’s newest owner is inflating prices … DLSG has a Strategy
In 2019, Overdrive was purchased from Rakuten by KKR, the inventors of leveraged buyouts. It is
highly unlikely that a leveraged buyout firm such as KKR would purchase a business such as Overdrive
unless Overdrive could impose monopoly pricing, and book publishers certainly have monopolies on the
books they publish, for all books are unique.
In 2020, Project ReShare was begun, to address distance learning needs and perhaps also as an
alternative to rising Overdrive prices. For without some form of controlled digital lending,
libraries are unable to lend the print books they purchased over the decades, and are stuck having
to pay the rising Overdrive prices. When Internet Archive lost the controlled digital lending (CDL)
lawsuit, basic CDL was outlawed.
Libraries everywhere have tremendous investments in print collections. Yet they can’t offer their
patrons controlled digital lending of the print items that they paid for and own. However, the
copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section 109(c) allow libraries to display all of
their library’s content provided that for each page displayed, there is one owned copy of that page
and that owned copy is in the same place as the image being displayed.
DLSG’s Digital Fence strictly applies the copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section
109(c), allowing patrons to use their own computers, tablets and phones as well as patron-use PCs to
read any content that is in the library while the patron is in the library.
Print Collections are Grossly Underutilized … DLSG has a Strategy
Libraries everywhere have tremendous investments in print collections. Yet they can’t offer their
patrons controlled digital lending of the print items that they purchased over many decades and own.
Instead, they are forced to use Overdrive and pay again and again.
However, the copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section 109(c) allow libraries to display
all of their library’s content provided that, for each page displayed, there is one owned copy of
that page and that owned copy is in the same place as the image being displayed. DLSG’s Digital
Fence strictly applies this copyright law limitation, and allows patrons to use their own computers,
tablets and phones as well as patron-use PCs to read the content of any item in the library that has
been registered with the system and for which access is controlled.
For Universities, DLSG’s HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery allows patrons to enter many
pages of content which HotLinks uses to match with tens of millions of items.
Students can input one or several textbook chapters and get instant access to the most relevant
content in your library as well as the most relevant content from 16,000 Open Access digital books.
These alternate treatments of study material can effectively replace study groups, which is
especially valuable when needs may arise at midnight before a test.
Researchers can input their own research along with multiple journal articles and get instant access
to the most relevant content from tens of millions of Open Access journal articles, and while in the
library, get instant access to your library’s most relevant print journals content. Unlike other
discovery systems, moving from relevant article to relevant article is virtually instantaneous.
Research is especially well-facilitated by DLSG’s Personal Digital Mind Palace. When a researchers
find something especially applicable to their research, they can highlight their most salient
phrase,
sentence or paragraph and the Digital Mind Palace will extract the text and the source information
and place it with others in a potentially long list for later review and instant navigation back to
the source document, and for export using its built-in automatic citations feature.
Self-serve and ILL digitization are Grossly Underutilized … DLSG has a
Strategy
Digital journal subscriptions allow the subscribing university’s researchers to download articles and
keep them forever. For the convenience of not having to digitize printed articles, universities pay
huge subscription fees year after year, fees that can exceed several dollars per page downloaded. In
stark contrast, a 15 page print journal article can be digitized in a minute on one of DLSG’s
high-speed KIC self-serve digitization kiosks and also kept by the researcher forever. Concentrated
Collections Areas make quick work of finding the content and taking a few steps to the CCA’s
dedicated KIC digitization kiosk.
It seems only reasonable that self-serve and ILL digitization should each represent 10% of all
digital content received by academic library patrons – university budget committees don’t care where
the content comes from as long as it satisfies their students, faculty and researchers. Getting
funds to cover the relatively small costs of the equipment is a small problem when compared with the
problem of how the library can get its students, faculty and researchers to make more use of
self-serve digitization kiosks and digital ILL.
DLSG’s solution to this problem is HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH Discovery with Personal Digital Mind
Palace and Digital Fence. These tools are highly effective at finding relevant content for ILL and
self-serve digitization and will surely increase use of these most cost-effective means of getting
content to patrons. Together, these technologies provide the following benefits to your patrons.
2D Full-text SearchMATCH, which can take 100 pages of input such as a chapter of a textbook
along with some course materials, or a researcher’s own work and some journal articles
SearchMATCH tens of millions of Open Access journal articles AND all your libraries digitized
copyright-controlled content AND eventually, much (or all) of your university’s subscriptions
content
Full-text access while in the library, in compliance with Title 17 Section 109(c)
When items of particular interest are found, key phrases, sentences or paragraphs can be
highlighted, and the text added to a highlights list along with its source information (citation
metadata).
For patrons with the authority to make ILL requests, making a request is just a button-press
away
For all patrons, when a journal article or book chapter is found that is copyright controlled
and the user wishes to view that content when they leave the library, getting the content is
just a button-press away
AI is Coming … DLSG has a Strategy
Students, faculty and researchers must control the AI system rather than the other way around.
In the coming decades, AI will likely amaze and confound many times. With the fastest AI
advancements driven by commercial objectives and of course, nefarious objectives as well,
facilitating study, instruction and research are not likely to get the attention they deserve.
Having developed multiple systems over the decades that amalgamate human and machine for optimal
results, including their latest amalgamation, HotLinks with Mind Palace, DLSG’s design team is
ready, willing and able to integrate the latest AI systems into HotLinks with Mind Palace in ways
that allow the user to retain ultimate control over the process, whether it be a learning
process,
an instruction process or a research process.
To this end, we are actively investing in a highly innovative approach for attracting and retaining
the best software engineering talent in the world for this AI integration, that is, top engineers
that are not completely sold on working for the most famous software engineer employers: Microsoft,
Apple, Google, Amazon, SpaceX, xAI, et al. DLSG will assemble hundreds of top software engineers for
this long-term project using funds from the adoption of its revolutionary new study and research
products: MyDocs with KIC Study System, Digital Fence and HotLinks with Mind Palace.
Only Physical Libraries can Provide Free Access to Copyright-controlled
Content
Free access to newfound scholarly knowledge is essential for civilization - after making possible
the end of thousands of years of [various forms of] feudalism and slavery, scientific advancements
and innovation continued to improve quality of life for everyone fast enough to keep everyone
working together to keep quality of life improving … until recently.
In order to ensure that newfound knowledge continues to be created fast enough to support ample
scientific advancement and innovation, authors must be reasonably well compensated, and publishers
must make profits to support authors and to ensure that the quality of the created knowledge is
high.
However, free access to copyrighted scholarly and research content for those that can't afford to
buy it at today's high prices is also essential for the future of civilization – a substantial
portion of scientific advancements are made by non-rich people. In fact, most innovations are made
by people that are willing to take chances and are more interested in innovating than accumulating
wealth or power ... people that don’t have a lot to lose.
But if libraries were to make all their copyrighted content instantly free to access digitally,
anywhere at any time, there would be no reason for anyone to purchase content except libraries. This
is why basic controlled digital lending (CDL) is illegal. CDL would probably be legal for types of
copyrighted content that only libraries typically purchase. For other types of content, free access
must somehow be regulated, or it must include non-financial costs.
Fortunately, getting copyrighted content from libraries has built-in non-financial costs – patrons
normally must visit the library physically to read or borrow books. Patrons can access copyrighted
content digitally when they are at the library, provided printed copies of the content are also at
the library, in compliance with copyright law Title 17 Section 109(c), or:
patrons take the time to physically copy or digitize the content themselves, and they copy or
digitize no more than about 10% of a book or a single article from a journal; or
library staff digitizes for them no more than about 10% of a book or a single article from a
journal. Note that it is also illegal for library staff to avoid digitizing every request (e.g.,
by holding digitized content for future requests).
Insufficient free access to scholarly knowledge is a crisis that must be resolved. The virtuous
cycle of research and innovation is no longer producing improvements in quality of life fast enough
to compel people to work together and not fight each other as if the others are somehow responsible
for the problems they are experiencing. One significant reason for the slowing of advancements in
quality of life is the substantial drop in accessibility of research and scholarly content due to
rising costs of research articles and declining monograph publishing. It is likely that the big five
journal publishers believe that maximizing profits is ‘the righteous way of the world’, and they
seem to be unstoppable.
Rather than help libraries try to fight the rising prices [possibly in vain], DLSG recognizes that
the value of the content can easily support higher prices and bigger library budgets, provided the
content is enhanced with technologies that substantially facilitate research, innovation and study.
This is why DLSG invested over 300,000 engineering professional hours to develop 'game-changing'
technologies that improve research and study so substantially that they increase the value of
research, monograph, and textbook content enough to compel universities to increase academic library
funding and governments to increase public library funding significantly.
THE US CONSTITUTION GRANTS CONGRESS THE ENUMERATED POWER TO CREATE COPYRIGHT LAW, PROVIDED IT PROMOTES THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the enumerated
power "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" by securing
for limited times to
authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
In other words, copyrighted works are protected by copyright law provided those protections promote the progress of science and useful arts. The following are
exceptions and limitations that were incorporated into copyright law to ensure compliance with the constitutional law that allows copyright laws to exist.
FAIR USE
ILL/DDD
SELF-SERVE
PUBLIC DISPLAY
LAST 20 YEARS
FULL-TEXT SEARCH
Title 17 § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work,
including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified
by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching
(including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an
infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular
case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include-
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial
nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as
a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Title 17 § 108 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and
archives Subsection (d)
The rights of reproduction and distribution under this section apply to a copy, made from
the collection of a library or archives where the user makes his or her request or from that
of another library or archives, of no more than one article or other contribution to a
copyrighted collection or periodical issue, or to a copy or phonorecord of a small part of
any other copyrighted work, if -
the copy or phonorecord becomes the property of the user, and the library or archives
has had no notice that the copy or phonorecord would be used for any purpose other than
private study, scholarship, or research; and
the library or archives displays prominently, at the place where orders are accepted,
and includes on its order form, a warning of copyright in accordance with requirements that
the Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation.
Title 17 § 108 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and
archives Subsection (f)
Nothing in this section-
shall be construed to impose liability for copyright
infringement upon a library or
archives or its employees for the unsupervised use of reproducing equipment located on its
premises: Provided, That such equipment displays a notice that the making of a copy may be
subject to the copyright law;
excuses a person who uses such reproducing equipment or who
requests a copy or
phonorecord under subsection (d) from liability for copyright infringement for any such act,
or for any later use of such copy or phonorecord, if it exceeds fair use as provided by
section 107;
shall be construed to limit the reproduction and
distribution by lending of a limited
number of copies and excerpts by a library or archives of an audiovisual news program,
subject to clauses (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a); or
in any way affects the right of fair use as provided by
section 107, or any contractual
obligations assumed at any time by the library or archives when it obtained a copy or
phonorecord of a work in its collections.
Title 17 § 109 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Effect of transfer of
particular copy or phonorecord
Subsection (c)
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.
Title 17 § 108 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and
archives
Subsection (h)
(1) For purposes of this section, during the last 20 years of any term of copyright of a
published work, a library or archives, including a nonprofit educational institution that
functions as such, may reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital
form a copy or phonorecord of such work, or portions thereof, for purposes of preservation,
scholarship, or research, if such library or archives has first determined, on the basis of
a reasonable investigation, that none of the conditions set forth in subparagraphs (A), (B),
and (C) of paragraph (2) apply.
(2) No reproduction, distribution, display, or performance is authorized under this
subsection if-
the work is subject to normal commercial exploitation;
a copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price; or
the copyright owner or its agent provides notice pursuant to regulations promulgated by
the Register of Copyrights that either of the conditions set forth in subparagraphs (A) and
(B) applies.
(3) The exemption provided in this subsection does not apply to any subsequent uses by users
other than such library or archives.
Authors Guild v. Google Settlement Summary
The court concluded that: (1) Google's unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works,
creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are
non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public
display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market
substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit
motivation do not justify denial of fair use. (2) Google’s provision of digitized copies to
the libraries that supplied the books, on the understanding that the libraries will use the
copies in a manner consistent with the copyright law, also does not constitute infringement.
Nor, on this record, is Google a contributory infringer. Accordingly, the court affirmed the
judgment.
Campus Wide vs Library Supplied
Increase your patron's access to study and research content
for far less than publishers are charging for campus-wide subscriptions
If your library is like so many others, your funding authorities approve very large digital
subscriptions budgets for your patrons to have digital access to copyrighted content. It stands to
reason that they will also approve much smaller budgets for patrons to have digital access to a similar
amount of copyrighted content via copyright law exceptions and limitations, especially when the
discovery system is the revolutionary HotLinks 2D full-text SearchMATCH with Digital Mind Palace.
These three pie charts (books, monographs & research journals) vary in size and change over time to show
proportions of content received across campus and by library patrons
- Print Item Lending from Library
- Print Item Reading in Library
- Digital Content Reading in Library
- Self-serve Digitization in Library
- Digital Document Delivery by Library (ILL)
- Direct from publishers: print and digital textbooks (e.g., OverDrive)
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2010
2020
Today
2028
See ARL Statistics - IPEDS Survey Data
Close ARL Statistics IPEDS Survey Data
This graph is derived from a report published by the
Association of Research Libraries (ARL). It shows Total Library Expenditures
as a Percent of Total University Expenditures and how the library's share of
the university's budget fell from 3% in 2000 to 1.5% in two decades.
Unlike Title 17 Section 109(c)-compliant solutions that only run on patron use PCs in your
library,
DLSG's Digital Fence also detects when notebook PCs, tablets and phones are in the library and
allow
copyrighted print collections content to be displayed on your patron’s own devices “by the
projection of no more than one image at a time” and only while they are “present at the place where
the copy is located,” in compliance with Section 109(c).
Title 17 Section 109(c)
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.
How Digital Fence Works
While in the Library, All Copyrighted Print Collections Content is Readable
When Outside the Library, Copyright-controlled Content is Blurred, While Metadata is Readable
With HotLinks Revolutionary 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery, tens of
millions of Open Access journal articles and 17,000 books are available at all times
via HotLinks Revolutionary 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery and Digital Mind Palace
Multiple WiFi hotspots are common in academic and public libraries
DLSG's Digital Fence uses the signal strengths of library's WiFi hotspots (access
points), and through 'triangulation,' verifies whether the patron is in the library and 'present at
the place where the copy is located.' If the patron moves outside the digital fence, any copyrighted
content that was readable while inside the digital fence becomes unreadable, and the item's title
author, publisher, publish date and other information is displayed clearly in a window over the
blurred content.
DLSG provides a Digital Fence calibration tool so that your library's IT staff
can recalibrate the Digital Fence when a change is made to the number of WiFi HotSpots and/or their
locations. A virtually unlimited number of floors and floorplan shapes can be configured.
Note that the best place to keep print items that can be viewed while in the
library is a Concentrated Collections Area (CCA). Each CCA can have its own separate digital fence.
A virtually unlimited number of floors and library floor plan shapes can be
configured
WiFi Digital Fence
While you wait to see whether libraries will ever again be able to buy a
book and lend it thousands of times, your library can do something
quite amazing and fully legal – you can provide your patrons with
unlimited digital access to your print collections content while they
are in the library. Copyright law explicitly states that every owner of a
copy of a copyrighted item can allow others to view that item on a
display device. Your library can provide unlimited digital viewing of
all of your items or just your most popular items, on your patron-use
PCs and on your patrons’ own notebooks, tablets and phones for far
less than book publishers are charging for Overdrive lending and far
less than journal publishers are charging for journal subscriptions.
And it’s unambiguously legal.
Copyright Law Section 109(c) allows copyrighted content to be projected onto a digital device,
provided
only one copy is displayed for each copy that is owned and 'in the same place.' Although not as
valuable
to patrons as controlled digital lending (if it were legal), DLSG's version of 'in-library' digital
display makes print collections items digitally viewable for pennies per page.
For copyrighted items that academic libraries rarely purchase more than one copy of (e.g.,
monographs
and journals), interpreting the ‘place’ as the entire university would not materially hurt publisher
sales, and instead, would greatly benefit students, faculty and researchers. This should increase
sales
of monographs and journals, which would provide some much needed financial help to small,
independent
journal and monograph publishers.
For Copyrighted items that are typically purchased in bulk (e.g., textbooks), it seems that the
‘place’
should be interpreted as 'inside the library.' Otherwise, many purchases for students that would
ordinarily be in bulk may be reduced to a single copy.
For Copyrighted items that are typically purchased in bulk (e.g., textbooks), it seems that the
‘place’
must be limited to the library. Otherwise, many purchases that would ordinarily be in bulk may be
reduced to a single copy.
For institutions that opt for the WiFi-based digital fence, a DLSG technician will assist the
library in
setting up the initial WiFi-based digital fence then train library staff to tune and adjust it as
needed
(e.g., when your library adds Wi-Fi access points).
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:
1. KIC self-serve digitization kiosks - if you are an academic library, you
probably already own several of these
2. BSCAN ILL - if you are an R1 or R2 academic library, you probably already
own at
least one of these
3. HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH discovery - DLSG's revolutionary new
discovery
system
confirmed as legal in Google vs Authors Guild.
Concentrated Collections Areas
Maximize Library Superpowers with Modern Concentrated Collections Areas
Why Add Concentrated Collections Areas now? For many decades, reading
rooms, reference sections, journal
areas and special collections areas have been popular places in academic libraries. However, apart from
replacing photocopiers in these concentrated collections areas with self-serve scanning systems, they
have not kept up with the times. At minimum, modern full-text search and digital display are needed –
see Authors Guild v. Google and the copyright law limitation allowing public display.
DLSG offers much more than full-text search. Unlike basic full-text search,
which takes a few key terms
as input, DLSG’s revolutionary HotLinks 2D full-text SearchMATCH discovery system allows students and
researchers to input entire textbook chapters. and dozens of pages of personal research and journal
articles. Then, in seconds, HotLinks finds the most relevant content in your concentrated collections
areas, and while in the library, patrons can see the results – digital display “of no more than one
image at a time, to viewers present at the place where the copy is located” complies with
copyright law
section 109(c).
With CCAs, permanent distribution of content can increase dramatically, either
via KIC self-serve
digitization or via ILL request-fulfillment. While limited to excerpts of books and monographs, and
individual articles (in compliance with copyright law section 108), content captured by self-serve or
ILL digitization can be kept forever. Together with HotLinks SearchMATCH and viewing while in the
library (e.g., inside the Digital Fence), access to print collections content at your library is likely
to increase dramatically, which can be thoroughly conveyed to budgeting authorities with extensive usage
reports.
At first thought, an increase in ILL request-fulfillment work may appear as a problem, However, the
value to patrons receiving the content highly likely to be considered by university budgeting
authorities as many times more than the cost to fulfill the increased number of ILL requests.
While increasing the number of ILL requests fulfilled by your library staff can justify significant
budget increases, it can be very costly if too many of those requests are for irrelevant content. It is
very important to ensure that ILL requests are made with the highest likelihood that the content
requested will be useful. While not the case with journal subscriptions, display while in the library
ensures that ILL requests are only made for content that has been verified to be relevant.
1.For journal articles, most
subscriptions do not allow the user to review
the content before
downloading, which results in many downloads of content that is not useful.
2.For monographs and books, online search
systems are not legally allowed to
display the full text of
search results.
Even when users are not in the library, concentrated collections areas provide great added value,
especially for monographs and books. Until now, digital ILL of excerpts of monographs and books has not
been viable. However, the HotLinks SearchMATCH function takes many pages of the users’ content as input
and finds the most relevant individual chapters, Even when outside
the library and therefore unable to
read the full text, authorized patrons can make ILL requests for specific chapters and library staff can
fulfill those requests with confidence that the content will be relevant.
CCAs can provide double-digit increases in resource utilization and justify significant budget
increases. Placing into turnkey CCAs nearly all items that are likely to be accessed at least once in a
year can yield multiple times its cost in budget increases, provided the CCAs include HotLinks, Mind
Palace and Digital Fence with integrated ILL request-fulfillment, self-serve digitization. Modern,
ultrafast book scanners can further improve return on investment.
These state-of-the-art concentrated collections areas add an intriguing new dimension and compelling new
reasons to visit the library as well as remotely accessing library resources. Its benefits include:
Highly productive browsing – the content that is most relevant to your
patrons is concentrated into
a small space=
A revolutionary search-match facility that takes many pages as input and
locates the most relevant
excerpts within monographs
Rapid self-serve harvesting – most popular books are a few steps away from
fast book scanners
Cost-effective ILL for monograph excerpts – library staff can fill up to
10 requests for CCA content
in an hour
Eventual full-text search and search-match for your entire print collections
– as other libraries
create their concentrated collections areas with books that are in your main collections
For the library, the lower reshelving costs over the years can finance a significant amount of the costs
of creating and maintaining concentrated collections areas. In addition, DLSG is working on a system
that can further reduce costs. This system will instantly identify the absence of any book from CCA
shelves, allowing libraries to rely on patrons to return books to the shelves for a further cost
reduction.
Unlike traditional Special Collections areas, whose books are usually selected by topic, age or rarity,
these new concentrated collections areas can be comprised of professors reading lists, researchers’
relevant books and books that have been checked out more than once in recent years. In addition to
making it substantially faster and easier for patron’s to find a book and scan an excerpt (see: “Library
Superpowers”), it substantially reduces the time to return the book to the shelf.
Creating a Superior Concentrated Collections Area
The first step in creating a superior concentrated collections area is compiling a list of frequently
accessed monographs and books. If your intent is to create one large concentrated collections area (e.g.
near a high traffic area of the main library), then it is likely that you will want to combine
professors’ recommended reading lists with researchers’ relevant monographs lists and books that have
been checked out more than once in the past few years.
The second step is allocating the space, moving the necessary number of bookshelves and at least one KIC
digitization system into that space, then arranging for DLSG to setup the KIC system for ingesting books
into a CCA. Once this has been done, you are ready to start ingesting books into the area.
The steps to ingesting books into a concentrated collections area:
3.Using DLSG’s CCA ingestion workflow, print a stack of ‘pull
sheets’ (not unlike ILL pull sheets), three or four sheets per work hour
4.Gather each book, insert its pull sheet between any two pages,
place it on a wheeled book cart and when finished, proceed to the KIC station in the concentrated
collections area
5.Insert a CCA key into the KIC’s USB port
6.Scan a pull sheet, then scan the book, selecting section and
chapter bookmarks while scanning. If you are using a KIC Bookeye 5, it should take a little over ten
minutes to digitize an entire 300 page book at 300dpi (high image quality)
7.Press the CCA Export button to post the search-match metadata to
the HotLinks system
8.Place the book on a CCA shelf.
9.Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 until finished scanning all books on the
cart.
10.Repeat steps 1 through 7 until all books have been ingested.
At any time after the first books have been ingested, you can try out DLSG’s HotLinks Search-Match
function.
KIC Self-Serve Digitization - the most cost-effective way for patrons to get copyrighted
content
KIC is in over 1000 academic libraries and hundreds of public libraries today largely because it's a
wonderfully cost-effective way for patrons to get copyrighted content from libraries in digital form, in
stark of contrast with high-cost publisher subscription fees. DLSG suggests that academic libraries
target 10% as the portion of digital content that patrons receive via self-serve scanning.
While subscription content is downloaded before the user can determine its relevance, library KIC users
can read the content first to be certain that it is what they want, then digitize it in a few minutes.
KIC can digitize a journal article or 30-page book excerpt in only one to two minutes, far less than the
time it takes to check out a book, then return to the library to check it back in. In addition, patrons
can take the PDF files of their digitized content off campus, and keep it forever.
Copyright Law: The only legal limitations to using KIC are
1.
The content must be in print form and must be scanned by the user; and
2.
The user must be informed that digitizing copyrighted content must comply with copyright law section
107 and 108(f)
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.
2
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.
3
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…
Free Library App
MyDocs Library App allows users to harvest, capture & organize
all library and textbook content for study and research on phone/tablet/PC.
Access ILL/DDD content, any digital output from KIC scan
stations, and any imported digital material. More Info >
Features
Advantages
ReadAlong Audio
(3 Study Methods)
Reading while listening is well known to significantly improve
retention. In addition, users can also use just the audio or read normally without
audio.
Highlighting with FlashCards
(3 Study Methods)
Students are able to highlight their own private digital copy
without
defacing a textbook that they don't own, and instead of simply highlighting
important
text, KSS makes flashcards that can be used for easy review, and quiz themselves on
the
highlighted points. Note that frequent quizzes are well know to improve retention.
SKIM
(2 Study Methods)
This feature can be used in two modes: 1) at high speed (e.g.
400-600
words per minute), for pre-reading a paragraph or two just prior to ReadAlong Audio,
for
reviewing just before a test, or for looking for some particular information that
the
student hasn't been able to find by searching; and 2) at normal reading speed (e.g.
at
120-400 words per minute) for more comfortable reading on the small screen of a
smart
phone.
Study Progress Monitoring
This features shows how much of the study material has been covered once, twice or
more
using ReadAlong Audio, Skim and the study mode of Flashcards. In addition, it shows
the
results of the one and multiple flashcard quizzes.
Study Dashboard
This feature shows study progress summary information for each course that is in
progress, allowing students to better allocate their study time between courses.
Small Smart Phone Support
KSS intelligently reflows text, pictures , diagrams, etc. for surprisingly effective
studying experience on small smart phones. MyDocs Personal Network can automatically
transfer study materials between Phone, Tablet and PC.
Personal Network
Once in their phone, KSS packets can be automatically transferred to the students'
tablet and PC for seamless switching between devices for optimal study
effectiveness.
Instant Access to Research
HotLinks Research Tool – Once a researcher inputs dozens of pages of personal
research as well
as journal articles, etc., into a KIC digitization system at the library and outputs
KSS packets
to MyDocs, he/she is a few touches and screen swipes away from instant access to up
to 100 pages
of the most relevant content in the HotLinks and DSE Content Server systems.
Instant Access to Alternate Study Materials
HotLinks Study Tool – Students that use KIC digitization systems at the library to
digitize a
textbook chapter and output a KSS packet to MyDocs can touch and swipe to the most
relevant
alternate study materials from a million pages of Open Educational Resources, or
from all
monographs in the HotLinks and DSE Content Server systems.
KIC Study System - Part of MyDocs
KIC Study System dramatically improves study efficiency and effectiveness
MyDocs is a free download from Microsoft, Apple and Android stores. KSS is a part of MyDocs that
provides
free access to Open Educational Resources (OER) and scanned content from KIC systems, with the
following
features:
ReadAlong Audio
Computer-assisted skim/review
Custom flashcards
Highlighting (HotLinked Highlights coming soon)
Study progress monitoring
Instant search-match and access to scholarly content via HotLinks Research & Study Tools
Repeat Audio for memorization as well as better retention and to assist with understanding
And more
HotLinks Research Tool
Scan or import research material as input to HotLinks. Your source
material can be any length - just a few pages or 100 pages. Hotlinks is far better
than
keyword search. It characterizes the source material as whole, compares them with a
billion
pages of scholarly content, and returns the 100 best matches in seconds.
HotLinks offsets untold hours of administrative load and allows
researchers to see the closest matches to their source material with simple repeated
swipes
across their touch screens, revealing consecutive search-matches.
HotLinks Study Tool
Students scan textbook chapters and course materials, send to
MyDocs app
on their tablet, phone or PC, and study with KSS.
At any time while studying their materials, they can activate
HotLinks and
swipe their screen and get instant access to high quality OER content that matches
their
current study topic, exposing them to alternate treatments of whatever they are
studying.
This can be an effective alternative to collaborative study during COVID.
Scan and send to MyDocs
KIC Study System
HotLinks Study Tool
Use any KIC station to scan course material, textbook chapters,
and other
study material quickly and efficiently.
Open resulting PDF in KIC Study System to skim, hear the material
read
around, and make, study and test flashcards.
Swipe to see other sources in OER libraries to read addition
treatments
and expand your understanding of the study material.
KSS for High School Students
Distance learning has disrupted study time as much as it has
disrupted
teaching. KIC Study System's graphical study progress tracking can be a great study
coach.
It also provides a powerful alternative to collaborative study - instant access to
alternate
treatments of a topic.
When a student is having trouble understanding some material, a
mouse-click or touch screen swipe provides instant access to high-quality OER
content on the
same topic.
"I've skimmed and read my history twice. Time for biology."
"This SKIM is great for studying when I'm stuck somewhere with just my
phone."
Open Educational Resources (OER) for High School and Lower
Division
College Students
Use KSS instantly and free with the following OER
"My professor just told us about KSS and how to get the OER
textbook he
assigned. KSS is a great way to study."
LibreTexts
An Introduction to Nutrition
Bio2 Introduction to Human Biology
Biochemistry Free and Easy
Biochemistry Free for All
Biochemistry Online
Biodiversity
Biofundamentals
Biol3300 Genetics
Biology
Book Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology
Cascade Microbiology
Cells Molecules and Mechanisms
Entomology Lab Manual
Environmental Science
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Forest Measurements and Applied Approach
General Biology
General Microbiology Lab Manual
Introduction to Botany
Introduction to Environmental Science
Introduction to Genetics
Introduction to Microbiology
L C C Introduction to Botany Hawaii Based
Microbiology
MKBN211 Introductory Microbiology
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Quantitative Ecology A New Unified Approach
Information Systems for Business and Beyond
International Finance Theory and Policy
Introduction to Business
Macroeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
African American History
U S History
World History Cultures States and Societies to 1500
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 Government
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
Sociology
Statistics High school
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
KIC Study System (KSS)
Dramatically improve long-term retention and overall study
effectiveness
using nine study methods derived from powerful digital-age study technologies such
as
ReadAlong Audio, SKIM, custom Flashcards, and HotLinks Study Tools
Manage study effectively using detailed graphical study progress
statistics. Study anywhere, any time. KSS is highly effective on smartphones and
needs only
intermittent internet access.
No Internet? No problem.
MyDocs only uses the internet occasionally, to get new study
material and
synchronize between your devices. Note that MyDocs checks for digital rights
compliance when
internet connection is re-established
KSS is even effective on the small screens of smartphones.
BSCAN ILL digitization - the most cost-effective way for libraries to provide copyrighted content
BSCAN ILL is used by most of the 260+ R1 and R2 institutions,
largely because it is the most cost-effective way for libraries to
deliver digital copies of journal article content to their researchers,
in stark contrast with publisher subscription fees.
Libraries can digitize the same journal article hundreds of times,
taking only a minute or two each time, and each time, sending that
article to a different requestor. In addition, patrons can take PDF
files of ILL-requested digitized content off campus and keep it forever.
While downloaded subscriptions content can often be irrelevant
to the user, if patrons are able to use 2D full-text SearchMATCH
discovery, the possibility that the article is irrelevant is very low.
Then in only one to two minutes, a 30-page excerpt can be digitized.
Complete Interlibrary
Loan Scanning
and Image Treatment Workflow
System
Complete Interlibrary Loan Scanning and Image Treatment Workflow System
... better image quality, fewer errors, and easier operation
In the early days of digital interlibrary loan and digital document delivery, the available
software was simple and image quality expectations of requestors were low. Times have
changed.
The demand for faster workflow delivery and perfect, printer-ready images has made the
current
software environment complex, creating significant challenges in training new employees.
BSCAN
ILL simplifies existing processes and produces perfect, printer-ready images.
BSCAN ILL starts by eliminating the need to manually enter requestor information. BSCAN ILL
automatically reads the information that is required by interlibrary loan document delivery
software from scanned pull slips, not only saving time but also eliminating
human error.
Articles are scanned using one of a family of high speed face-up scanners: Click Mini
and Bookeye V3, V2 & V1. By eliminating the constant book flipping required by flatbed
scanners, these face-up scanners are three to five times faster than the fastest face-down
scanners, and they do not cause book spine damage. For low volume ILL operations, BSCAN ILL
also
runs BookEdge flatbed scanners, employing their book edge feature and a faster mode that
scans
two pages at a time.
Once articles are scanned, BSCAN ILL's powerful image treatment capabilities automatically
eliminate skew and remove unwanted black borders, fan and gutter.
Finally, BSCAN ILL automatically sends requests through Tipasa, ILLiad/Odyssey, Ariel,
RAPIDo,
Article Exchange, FTP, and e-mail and can notify ILLiad/Odyssey in each case, all
without any need for further human intervention. Resending articles is also a snap.
If you could...
...add Digital Document Delivery services for as little as $2,000 per year,
would you?
...cut your ILL scanning time in half for less than $2,000 per
year, and in half again for $500
more, would you?
...simplify your digitization process, reduce worker training
time, produce clean, straight
print-ready images every time for $2,000 per year, would you?
What if
you could do all this plus eliminate
keying the requestor info, automatically deliver
articles, resend requests days later if a delivery
failure occurs, and operate seamlessly with all
other ILL software and systems (e.g. Tipasa, Article
Exchange, ILLiad/Odyssey, Ariel, FTP & email)?
...would you?
BSCAN ILL
Dramatically Improves ILL Digitization
A fundamental tenet that has always bound the academic research community together is open
sharing of newfound knowledge. Today, this open sharing is going on at a feverish pace and
digital interlibrary loan services are an essential vehicle. Scholars from all fields are
becoming increasingly dependent on their ability to acquire journal articles in just one
day.
In the early 1990s, the pioneers of interlibrary loan digitization had no choice but to
adapt
commercial scanning equipment to meet their needs. Ariel was the only available document
delivery software and there were no scanners made specifically for scanning books, journals
and
maps. Over time, that changed. Planetary scanners became available in the late 1990s. The
first
release of BSCAN ILL automatically read (using OCR) the requestor information from pull
slips
without manual keying, supported rapid scanning and image cleanup, and automatically posted
to
Ariel with the press of a single button. Since then, ILLiad, Odyssey, Ariel, RAPIDo and
Article Exchange have been integrated into BSCAN ILL with the same hands-off automation.
BSCAN
ILL has a host of valuable features, many of which are not available with any other system.
In addition to allowing review of electronic articles and resource sharing to reduce per
article
scanning costs (e.g. for archival, electronic course materials creation, scanning projects),
only BSCAN ILL offers you:
One easy user interface, integrated seamlessly with Tipasa, Article Exchange,
ILLiad/Odyssey, RAPIDo,
Ariel, FTP & Email
- reduces training time significantly
Optimized for the latest technology in face-up scanners, including all Bookeye models,
Click Mini, and face-down scanners such as BookEdge and WideTEK 25
Automatically reading of requestor information from pull slips
Automatically sending without intervention by the scan operator
Central management with central, portable and remote scanning
Automatic hold of all scanned articles for up to 30 days for fast
correcting and easy resending
Automatic updating of ILLiad/Odyssey, even if the request was delivered by another means
such as Tipasa, Ariel, FTP or email
Automatic image cleanup and output of 'printer-ready' images
In light of the great value ILL represents for research libraries, DLSG suggests that they TARGET10%
as
the portion of digital content that their patrons
receive via ILL. To increase ILL use, four of the five self-serve digitization target suggestions
for
KIC
(excluding suggestion 2) will promote greater ILL use
if the library includes a significant number of print journals in their CCA ingestion process.
BSCAN ILL Scanner Component Options
2D Full-Text SearchMATCH Discovery
For Students
For Researchers
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.
Discovery Technologies Comparison
Full-Text Search vs Artificial Intelligence(e.g.ChatGPT) vs HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH
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
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 to result
after result, one per swipe/click.
Some of the Instantly Accessible OER Titles
LibreTexts
An Introduction to Nutrition
Bio2 Introduction to Human Biology
Biochemistry Free and Easy
Biochemistry Free for All
Biochemistry Online
Biodiversity
Biofundamentals
BIOL3300 Genetics
Biology
Book Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology
Cascade Microbiology
Cells Molecules and Mechanisms
Entomology Lab Manual
Environmental Science
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Forest Measurements and Applied Approach
General Biology
General Microbiology Lab Manual
Introduction to Botany
Introduction to Environmental Science
Introduction to Genetics
Introduction to Microbiology
L C C Introduction to Botany Hawaii Based
Microbiology
MKBN211 Introductory Microbiology
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Quantitative Ecology A New Unified Approach
Information Systems for Business and Beyond
International Finance Theory and Policy
Introduction to Business
Macroeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
African American History
U S History
World History Cultures States and Societies to 1500
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 Government
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
Sociology
Statistics High school
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
* some full-text search systems provide a programmatic interface (an API) for accessing the content
StudentResearcher Receives Answer
StudentResearcher Derives his/her Own Conclusions
from
Hot Links
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.
Hundreds of Key Terms from Study Materials (e.g. one or two chapters)
Hundreds of Search Results
100+ Most Highly Correlated / Relevent Items in Priority Order
Thousands of Key Terms from Research Materials (e.g. journals)
Thousands of Search Results
200+ Most Highly Correlated / Relevent Items in Priority Order
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.
Preservation, Archives & Digital Fence
High Performance Digital Preservation / Archival Systems Opus Workflow & Opus FreeFlow
for controlled project management including digitization, image treatment and metadata capture
The Opus digitization process was designed specifically for academic
libraries, museums and archives.
Use opus workflow to build digital assets for preservation, archive, digital collections for the Web,
and for viewing software. Its image treatment processes such as fan, gutter and book curvature removal,
and content location and registration, are dramatically faster and easier to use than photo editing
software.
Opus operates a wide array of preservation quality scanners and allows for
the import of existing images as well. It then groups images into objects (i.e. books), which are easily
managed and processed. Finally, it renders those objects into a variety of derivatives.
One product... 8 Exceptional Advancements
Opus has a range of options and prices. Opus WorkFlow is for larger
digitization projects. It supports
multiple stations and multiple simultaneous workers. Some Opus WorkFlow features are available in Opus
FreeFlow as options. Ask your DLSG representative for more information.
Opus FreeFlow Lite is a solid and easy-to-use entry-level
product, while Opus FreeFlow includes the most popular features, yet remains
easy to use is. Use Opus FreeFlow for smaller projects and ad hoc scanning.
Superior Image Treatment... Designed for Projects and Archival
Fully Integrated Hierarchical Metadata Capture
Next Generation Workflow with Automatic Archive
Open RAID Digital Archiving & Migration Management Software using Automated Data Migration
Facility
Customizable output formats including Web with virtual 3D page tuning
Enlightened Architecture
Supported by experienced digital experts
Creation of large amounts of derivatives unattended (e.g. overnight)
Digital Stacks Ecosystem
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.
Section 108 lets libraries distribute many PDF copies of a single original (no one-to-one
owned-to-loaned ratio!), copies that the patron can keep forever (no checkout time limits), this is
strong evidence of the solid support copyright law provides to libraries, especially considering the
fact that, unlike CDL, PDFs have no software restrictions against secondary distribution, which, via
email, can be instant and extensive
While in the Library, All Copyrighted 
When Outside the Library, Copyright-controlled 
