1findr, Dimensions and other free mega indexes - A review of the space and numbers comparison | Musings about librarianship

"Recently, someone reached out to me and asked me if I had a list of academic libraries that chose not to go with their own branded discovery services. I think for most reasonably sized and resourced university libraries the answer is not many. Utrecht is a well known exception, but the question remains could you chose not to follow the crowd and have your own discovery service of content? One of the main arguments against following Utrecht's lead of  "delivery not discovery" which was also pointed out by as Utrecht themselves was that not having your own discovery service (or rather leasing a discovery index) was that you would be at the mercy of Google and their uncertain business model.

But with more free big discovery indexes coming into the field including Microsoft Academic, Digital Science Dimensions , 1Science's 1Findr or even free aggregators like  BASE , CORE and others like Lens.org and  Scilit based around Crossref metadata  is this no longer such a big concern?"