JSTOR Labs Releases: “Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers” Final Report

JSTOR Labs released the following report today.
Title
Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers (Final Report)

Authors
Alex Humphreys
Christina Spencer
Laura Brown
Matthew Loy
Ronald Snyder
Source
JSTOR Labs
Abstract

Scholarly books are increasingly available in digital form, but the online interfaces for using these books often allow only for the browsing of PDF files. JSTOR Labs, an experimental product-development group within the not-for-profit digital library JSTOR, undertook an ideation and design process to develop new and different ways of showing scholarly books online, with the goal that this new viewing interface should be relatively simple and inexpensive to implement for any scholarly book that is already available in PDF form. This paper documents that design process, including the recommendations of a working group of scholars, publishers, and librarians convened by JSTOR Labs and the Columbia University Libraries in October 2016.
The prototype monograph viewer developed through this process—called “Topicgraph”—is described herein and is freely available online at https://labs.jstor.org/topicgraph.

Direct to Full Text Report (54 pages; PDF)

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