{"id":356,"date":"2009-07-10T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/?p=356"},"modified":"2009-07-13T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:59:41","slug":"do-not-press-print-what-can-we-do-to-keep-the-reader-engaged-in-online-use-of-journals-the-session-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/2009\/07\/10\/do-not-press-print-what-can-we-do-to-keep-the-reader-engaged-in-online-use-of-journals-the-session-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Press Print: What Can We Do to Keep the Reader Engaged in Online Use of Journals?: The Session Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

When:<\/strong> Friday, July 10, 2009 3:30pm – 4:30pm<\/em><\/p>\n

Room:\u00a0Main Concourse – Fletcher Challenge Room 1900<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/strong> Rick Kopak<\/em>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChia-Ning Chiang<\/em><\/p>\n

Rick Kopak<\/a> is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC<\/a>. \u00a0Chia-Ning Chiang is a PhD Candidate at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Chia-Ning Chiang and Rick Kopak (Source: Photo taken by Helen Szeto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Session <\/a>Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n

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Session Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rick Kopak presentation (Source: Photo taken by Helen Szeto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The purpose behind this session is to look at ways to engage journal readers through the journal’s interface.\u00a0 Rick Kopak and Chia-Ning Chiang presented a series of reading tools in the Open Journal System (OJS)<\/a> that will critically engage readers as they read through the articles.\u00a0 They want to provide an environment that enables an active reading process where they are thinking about the information as they read. <\/span><\/p>\n

The reading tools will help the reader focus on the article and interact with it.\u00a0 Also, the reader can bring in other related information on the topic; making connections in the process.\u00a0 Kopak gives examples of reading tools found in other models: highwire press<\/a>, PubMed<\/a> and PIRA (Personal Information Retrieval Assistant).<\/span><\/p>\n

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PIRA screen capture (Source: slide courtesy of Rick Kopak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Linking and Writing (Source: slide courtesy of Rick Kopak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the prototype of reading tools being developed for OJS, there are two components: annotation and linking.\u00a0 Writing annotations allow the reader to capture their thinking process as they read.\u00a0 They also provide a visual search of ideas on the sides of the article.\u00a0 In the prototype, readers can highlight text and space is allotted on the side for notes.\u00a0 Linking and link typing are extensions of annotation.\u00a0\u00a0 Readers can link to another piece that elaborates on the article topic.\u00a0 The idea behind linking is to capture relationships between different journals and make connections.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chin-Ning Chiang Presentation (Source: Photo taken by Helen Szeto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During Chin-Ning\u2019s part of the presentation, she reviews a bar graph chart that compares the features of reading tools from 2006 to 2009.\u00a0 There are social components to article reading as well.\u00a0 Reader comments can be found at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 Chiang argues that comments at the bottom of the page are ineffective because people rarely scroll down to the bottom.\u00a0 Also, readers lose context when they scroll away from the text.<\/span><\/p>\n

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reading tools chart (Source: slide courtesy of Rick Kopak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There are 5 parts that Chiang and Kopak would like to include in their production version of OJS reading tools: highlighting, note making, workspace, public views, and linking.\u00a0 Chiang and Kopak would like the reader to have more control over highlighting, including the choice of colours and tone densities.\u00a0 For note making, readers would be able to toggle the note function on and off, and have the ability to fold long notes.\u00a0 A workspace will also be created for people to start composing and clipping notes and text to the workspace.\u00a0 In the public view mode, individual markings can be shared which promotes social interaction among academics.\u00a0 It allows readers to view the multiple commentaries in an article. Finally, the linking function will give the user more control. \u00a0Some of these abilities include clicking links off and on, creating hyper links and being able to tag annotations and highlighted text.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pkp2009 Kopak Chiang<\/a><\/object><\/div>\n

(Source: powerpoint presentation courtesy of Rick Kopak)<\/p>\n

Session Analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chiang and Kopak were clear on their intentions on creating reading tools for OJS.\u00a0 They referred to existing reading tools to show improvements they wanted to make.\u00a0 The screenshots of the various interfaces were helpful visuals to understand the different tool functions.\u00a0 The rationale behind each component and their beneficial functions were clearly explained to persuade the audience that the reading tools will enrich the reading process greatly in OJS.<\/p>\n

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Session Questions and Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A gentleman in the audience posed the following questions: What about the editorial view?\u00a0 Can we apply these tools there? <\/span><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t hear the reply clearly, but Kopak sent me an email reply to the questions asked. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kopak’s reply: \u00a0“The gentleman’s question concerned whether we ever thought of using the Annotation and Linking Reading Tools for the Editorial view in OJS in addition to the Reader View. \u00a0I said yes, we had considered it, and it might be a feature in the Editorial View at some point in the future. \u00a0But, at the moment, we were focusing on the readers of OJS journal articles. \u00a0In the Editorial View, editors and reviewers could comment on journal articles directly using the Annotation Tool specifically, and editors could give editorial instructions as well.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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