Improving access and delivery of academic content - a survey of current & emerging trends | Musings about librarianship

"While allowing users to gain access to paywalled academic content aka delivery services is often seen to be less sexy than discovery it is still an important part of the researcher workflow that is worth looking at. In particular, I will argue that in the past few years we have seen a renewed interest in this part of the workflow and may potentially start to see some big changes in the way we provide access to academic content in the near future. Note: The OA discovery and delivery front has changed a lot since 2017, with Unpaywall been a big part of the story, but for this blog post I will focus on delivery aspects of paywalled content. 1.0 Access and delivery - an age old problem   1.1 RA21, Seamless Access and getFTR   1.2 Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) 1.3 Browser extensions/"Access Brokers" 1.4 Content syndication partnership between Springer Nature and ResearchGate (new) 1.5 Is the sun slowing setting on library link resolvers? 1.6 The Sci-hub effect? 1.7 Privacy implications ..."