Scholarly Recommender Service Trial – We Need Your Feedback
bX is a new scholarly article recommender service from Ex Libris (the software behind the “NIH Library Full-Text Plus!” button), providing researchers with recommendations about scholarly articles based on the researcher’s area of interest. This service will facilitate researchers’ finding all of the articles relevant to their research.
The NIH Library has free trial access to bX through August 22, 2009. To access the trial, simply use the NIH Library Full-Text Plus! Button as usual and scroll down to the “Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following:” section of the menu.
It is similar to the “More Like This” or “If You Liked This, You’ll Also Like …” services on consumer web sites such as Amazon.com but it is based on article usage by nearly 2,000 users at research institutions around the world.
If you do a search in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, or other databases and find an article relevant to your research, you click on the “NIH Library Full-Text Plus!” button to see if NIH has access to the article and then you click through to the full text. To look at this recommender service, before clicking on the full text link scroll down to a section labeled “Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following:”. You will find additional articles that you may also be interested in, based on the usage of other researchers that looked at your original article. You can click on the buttons to the right of the citations to see if NIH has access to the additional articles.
If this service would be useful for your work, please email Betty Landesman (landesb@mail.nih.gov), NIH Library, with your feedback.