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The University of Manchester
HowThe University of Manchester Library Reduced Support Ticket Volume by 25%
The University of Manchester Library is one of the great libraries of the world. It sits at the heart of England’s first and most eminent civic university, welcoming millions of students, researchers and visits every year to its 11 sites, which include The John Rylands Library, home to one of the most remarkable university Special Collections in the world.
“It’s so much clearer and so much better that people are asking, ‘Why isn’t it this way to begin with?’”
~ Tim O’Neill
Reduced Support Ticket Volume by 25%
Improved usability to save 100 days of wasted researcher time per year
LibKey led to 75% fewer clicks
LibKey led to large time savings
Featured Case Study
The University of Manchester
HowThe University of Manchester Library Reduced Support Ticket Volume by 25%
The University of Manchester Library is one of the great libraries of the world. It sits at the heart of England’s first and most eminent civic university, welcoming millions of students, researchers and visits every year to its 11 sites, which include The John Rylands Library, home to one of the most remarkable university Special Collections in the world.
“It’s so much clearer and so much better that people are asking, ‘Why isn’t it this way to begin with?’”
~ Tim O’Neill
Reduced Support Ticket Volume by 25%
Improved usability to save 100 days of wasted researcher time per year
LibKey led to 75% fewer clicks
LibKey led to large time savings
Linking from your discovery service, simplified.
Add one-click access to full text articles and journal issue linking to the article records of all leading discovery services. LibKey Discovery eliminates the confusing maze of clicks to deliver the experience users expect, save researchers valuable time, and reduce help desk requests.
Simplify access to content from all your library databases
Use LibKey Link wherever you are using a link resolver to deliver one-click access to articles. LibKey Link extends all the benefits of one-click access to any of your library resources.
Keep the library central to the research process when discovery happens outside the library
Users often start their research at sites outside the library, such as PubMed, Wikipedia and publisher pages. LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that detects available scholarly content, notifies the user of availability, and connects them to the content in one-click. LibKey Nomad may be downloaded by users or be deployed centrally across computers at your organization.
Resolve DOI and PMID requests through library services, not pirate sites
libkey.io presents a single search box to find an article by DOI or PMID, delivering one-click full text access via library subscribed or Open Access content. Researchers want to find articles easily, libkey.io delivers
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Visualize your ejournal collection and present them in a format so they can be easily browsed and read. BrowZine drives journal engagement and keeps your researchers current in the literature.
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Installed @third_iron‘s LibKey Nomad this morning so I can teach it to my students. It’s so great!
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Missing Link – Optimizing Access to Reduce Unnecessary ILL Requests Presentation Transcript
Read MoreTony Espe and Rebecca Wisniewski discuss using ILL requests to evaluate and troubleshoot discovery service interface problems.
“That brings us back to our research question, exactly how many of our patrons were submitting ILL request for online items that they could have access themselves through the university library.”