From: Cynthia Hodgson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:02:44 -0400

(with apologies for cross-posting)

Open Discovery Initiative Survey closes October 4, 2012 - please respond to
it if you haven't already!

The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), a working group of the National
Information Standards Organization (NISO), has been formed to develop a
Recommended Practice related to the index-based discovery services for
libraries. ODI aims to investigate and improve the ecosystem surrounding
these discovery services, with a goal of broader participation of content
providers and increased transparency to libraries.

An important component of our work involves gathering information from the
key stakeholders: libraries, content providers, and developers of discovery
products.

If you are involved in discovery services we request that you respond to our
survey. The survey results will provide essential information to the
workgroup as it develops recommended practices related to discovery
services. A full report on the findings of this survey will be made
available publically on the NISO website later this year.

We are especially interested in input from:

* libraries that have implemented or plan to implement a discovery
service and
* organizations that potentially contribute content to one or more of
these services:
     o   primary publishers,
     o   producers of aggregated databases of citation or
          full-text content for libraries, and
     o   creators of abstracting and indexing services.

We anticipate that the survey will take about 20 minutes to complete.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QBXZXSB

All respondents that identify themselves will be entered into a drawing for
one of six $25 Amazon e-gift cards, kindly sponsored by Ex Libris and SAGE.

These respondents will also receive a copy of the aggregated results. Note
that any results shared will be anonymous and only aggregate data will be
released.

In addition, if you are interested in keeping up to date with ODI, please
sign up to our Interest mailing list -
http://www.niso.org/lists/opendiscovery

Thank you
NISO ODI Working Group

Sent on behalf of ODI Working Group by:
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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