Category Archives: Benefits

Final blog post

What has RISE produced? A database based on EZProxy activity data, enhanced with bibliographic data from Crossref,  and containing terms used to search via the RISE interface. A web search interface http://library.open.ac.uk/rise to show recommendations to users searching the Ebsco Discovery … Continue reading

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RISE measuring success

As we reach the end of the RISE project it’s a good time to reflect back on the success of the project.  At the start we said that we were going to measure the success in several specific ways (shown … Continue reading

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Benefits – what we expected and what we’ve been able to achieve

For some reason we didn’t manage to finish off our blog post on the intended benefits of the RISE project.  Like the Users post we thought it might be more useful to do it towards the end of the project … Continue reading

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June update

Activities during June and early July A bit later than expected owing to a week spent largely talking to people about RISE, Activity Data and Shared Services. June and early July has been spent mainly in finishing off the evaluation … Continue reading

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