From: David Groenewegen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:54:00 +1000 It's great that this information is being collected and made available, but the method of doing so shows why IRs still have such a long way to go to be useful to the academic community. The DOI listed takes me to a metadata page where the first download option I can see is for the citation, rather than the dataset. There is no obvious link to the dataset on my screen, although I can see the title twice. Once I scroll down, the first link I see (other than to Creative Commons) is helpfully labelled "Endpoint and path to dataset", a phrase used by no human, ever. If I click on this it takes me to a Globus log in page, in another tab. Do most people know what this is? My institution isn't on the list so not sure how best to log in. Not sure why I should have to. Isn't this Open Data? So I went back to the metadata page (couldn't use "Back" because I was in a different tab). Under the only obvious link (that took me nowhere), there are two headings: "submitted data" and "globus_metadata.json". They both have the little cloud icon next to them that I have learnt takes me to Globus and a log in I don't have. The json link also has a different download-looking arrow next to it, but when I click on that I get a whole bunch of unformatted text in my browser window. So I go back again. I click on the + next to "submitted data" and I finally see the files that I want, with file extensions I can understand. And that I can download. That was a lot of clicking and scrolling, and frankly I almost gave up a couple of times. I don't want to pick on this IR in particular (although I was kind of shocked to realise that it has only been developed in the last 2 years, because it looks like something from 2003), because this is a pretty typical user unfriendly experience that you get from most library systems and IRs. Yes, sharing data is complicated, but does it have to be this hard? If Amazon made it this tough to buy a book Jeff Bezos would still be working out of his garage. -- DAVID GROENEWEGEN Director, Research Library Monash University Information Services Building 40 Exhibition Walk, Clayton Campus Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3168 AUSTRALIA T: +61 3 9902 0570 M: +61 (0) 409 969 658 E: [log in to unmask] @groenewegendave monash.edu On 14/05/2018 4:43 AM, LIBLICENSE wrote: > Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Releases Journal > Subscription Cost Data > > A dataset and associated summary table have been released detailing > expenditure costs of CARL member university libraries for their > subscriptions for 2016-17. The data is not comprehensive of all CARL member > libraries, and for those included, it is not comprehensive of their > licensed subscriptions. > > http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-members-release-journal-su > bscription-cost-data/ > > See: > > https://www.frdr.ca/repo/handle/doi:10.20383/101.033 >