<div dir="ltr">At CUNY, we have it set up to appear in SFX menus. In 2017, we had 39,000 clickthroughs on items in the bX Recommender portion of our SFX menus, many more than we had expected.<div><br></div><div>Stephen Francoeur</div><div>User Experience Library</div><div>Newman Library</div><div>Baruch College</div><div>New York, NY</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:stephen.francoeur@baruch.cuny.edu">stephen.francoeur@baruch.cuny.edu</a><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 2:06 PM Amy Lynn Fry <<a href="mailto:afry@bgsu.edu">afry@bgsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I love the bX recommender! I think it can be implemented better and I’m looking forward to future developments!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Very soon after we set it up, I had a chat reference question with someone who wanted full text of an article that was citation-only in Summon. It was on a very technical topic I did not understand and I did
not know how to search for more articles like that one. So I used the bx recommender from the original article the person had wanted and linked through to full text of the first recommended one and sent it to the person and they said it was perfect, and I
was like, cool!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I wish bX recommender pulled in more information about the articles it returns as recommended – it shows citations only, and you have to click through to full text if you want to see more about the article. Plus,
because it does not take into account what you actually have access to before it presents recommendations, it can recommend things you don’t have full text to (it uses 360 Link to link through to full text, so sometimes you get to your “no full text” 360 link
page instead of the article). I also am not sure how much people are seeing it (the “related articles” link), and you have to click on it to get the recommendations to show up. Also we can’t get stats on it, so I don’t know if people are using it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">As a concept I love it and I would love to see it developed further and embedded more into Summon. I have realized that one thing library tools generally don’t do that well is incorporate what people DO with
search results into relevance ranking – instead, they mostly rank relevance by information about the item (title, subjects, full text, format). But paying attention to what people use (what they click on, download, check out) could really transform library
research. The bX recommender is a step towards doing that. (Summon also incorporates WoS citation counts into its relevance ranking, which is another way of doing that.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">More bX Recommender! Also, Summon, keep it free for a while longer!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Amy Fry<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Associate Professor, E-resources Librarian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Jerome Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Bowling Green, OH 43403<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:afry@bgsu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">afry@bgsu.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1f497d">email is the best way to reach me</span></i><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Prefontaine, Susan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 19, 2018 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> VanUllen, Mary K <<a href="mailto:mvanullen@albany.edu" target="_blank">mvanullen@albany.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] bX Recommender<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We would also be interested to hear any input.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thank you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">Susan Prefontaine<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">Electronic Resources Coordinator<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">e-Resources Team<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">University Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">University at Buffalo/SUNY<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">134 Lockwood Library Building<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864">Buffalo, NY 14260-2210<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864"><a href="tel:(716)%20645-8581" value="+17166458581" target="_blank">716-645-8581</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864"><a href="tel:(716)%20645-5955" value="+17166455955" target="_blank">716-645-5955</a> fax<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#203864"><a href="mailto:sprefont@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">sprefont@buffalo.edu</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>VanUllen, Mary K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 19, 2018 11:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] bX Recommender<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any experience they’d be willing to share about ExLibris bX Recommender service? We will not be able to trial it before we need to make a decision about subscribing, so I would appreciate any input anyone has.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mary<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mary K. Van Ullen<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Collections<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University Library, LI-328<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University at Albany<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1400 Washington Avenue<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Albany, NY 12222<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="tel:(518)%20442-3559" value="+15184423559" target="_blank">(518) 442-3559</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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