Digital Fence ©-Law Limitation 109(c)

DLSG’s Digital Fence for Libraries

Legal Display of Copyrighted Content While in the Library

With HotLinks Revolutionary 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery and Digital Mind Palace, DLSG’s Digital Fence forms the centerpiece of a true hybrid library that Optimizes ©-Law exceptions and limitations

Unlike Title 17 Section 109(c)-compliant solutions that only run on patron use PCs in your library, DLSG's Digital Fence also detects when notebook PCs, tablets and phones are in the library and allow copyrighted print collections content to be displayed on your patron’s own devices “by the projection of no more than one image at a time” and only while they are “present at the place where the copy is located,” in compliance with Section 109(c).

Title 17 Section 109(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(5), the owner of a particular copy lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to display that copy publicly, either directly or by the projection of no more than one image at a time, to viewers present at the place where the copy is located.

While in the Library, All Copyrighted
Print Collections Content is Readable

When Outside the Library, Copyright-controlled
Content is Blurred, While Metadata is Readable

With HotLinks Revolutionary 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery, tens of millions of Open Access journal articles and 17,000 books are available at all times via HotLinks Revolutionary 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery and Digital Mind Palace

Multiple WiFi hotspots are common in academic and public libraries

DLSG's Digital Fence uses the signal strengths of library's WiFi hotspots (access points), and through 'triangulation,' verifies whether the patron is in the library and 'present at the place where the copy is located.' If the patron moves outside the digital fence, any copyrighted content that was readable while inside the digital fence becomes unreadable, and the item's title author, publisher, publish date and other information is displayed clearly in a window over the blurred content.

DLSG provides a Digital Fence calibration tool so that your library's IT staff can recalibrate the Digital Fence when a change is made to the number of WiFi HotSpots and/or their locations. A virtually unlimited number of floors and floorplan shapes can be configured.

Note that the best place to keep print items that can be viewed while in the library is a Concentrated Collections Area (CCA). Each CCA can have its own separate digital fence.

A virtually unlimited number of floors and library floor plan shapes can be configured

WiFi Digital Fence

While you wait to see whether libraries will ever again be able to buy a book and lend it thousands of times, your library can do something quite amazing and fully legal – you can provide your patrons with unlimited digital access to your print collections content while they are in the library. Copyright law explicitly states that every owner of a copy of a copyrighted item can allow others to view that item on a display device. Your library can provide unlimited digital viewing of all of your items or just your most popular items, on your patron-use PCs and on your patrons’ own notebooks, tablets and phones for far less than book publishers are charging for Overdrive lending and far less than journal publishers are charging for journal subscriptions. And it’s unambiguously legal.

Copyright Law Section 109(c) allows copyrighted content to be projected onto a digital device, provided only one copy is displayed for each copy that is owned and 'in the same place.' Although not as valuable to patrons as controlled digital lending (if it were legal), DLSG's version of 'in-library' digital display makes print collections items digitally viewable for pennies per page.

For copyrighted items that academic libraries rarely purchase more than one copy of (e.g., monographs and journals), interpreting the ‘place’ as the entire university would not materially hurt publisher sales, and instead, would greatly benefit students, faculty and researchers. This should increase sales of monographs and journals, which would provide some much needed financial help to small, independent journal and monograph publishers.

For Copyrighted items that are typically purchased in bulk (e.g., textbooks), it seems that the ‘place’ should be interpreted as 'inside the library.' Otherwise, many purchases for students that would ordinarily be in bulk may be reduced to a single copy.

For Copyrighted items that are typically purchased in bulk (e.g., textbooks), it seems that the ‘place’ must be limited to the library. Otherwise, many purchases that would ordinarily be in bulk may be reduced to a single copy.

To allow public libraries and academic institutions to take advantage of ©-LawSection 109(c), DLSG offers two types of Digital Fence: 1) IP based; and 2) Wi-Fi Signal Strength with Triangulation. This is because copyright law does not specify the ‘place’ in detail.

For institutions that opt for the WiFi-based digital fence, a DLSG technician will assist the library in setting up the initial WiFi-based digital fence then train library staff to tune and adjust it as needed (e.g., when your library adds Wi-Fi access points).

Digital Fence is Location-Restricted Digital Display of
Copyrighted Content in Compliance with ©-Law 109(c)

-formerly Section 109(b)

Copyright Law USCODE Title 17 Chapter 1 Subsection 109

THE APPLICABLE LAW

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(5), the owner of a particular copy lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to display that copy publicly, either directly or by the projection of no more than one image at a time, to viewers present at the place where the copy is located.

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476

Historical and revision notes from the House are explanatory notes that provide valuable insight into the intent of the legislation. Judges, lawyers, and scholars use these notes to understand the legislative intent and interpret the law more accurately.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title17/pdf/USCODE-2022-title17-chap1-sec109.pdf

DLSG's Digital Fence works with three other copyright law exceptions technologies to provide seamless discovery, viewing while in the library, and permanent digital distribution of book excerpts and individual journal articles via self-serve and ILL digital copying:

1. KIC self-serve digitization kiosks - if you are an academic library, you probably already own several of these
2. BSCAN ILL - if you are an R1 or R2 academic library, you probably already own at least one of these
3. HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH discovery - DLSG's revolutionary new discovery system confirmed as legal in Google vs Authors Guild.

Concentrated Collections Areas

Maximize Library Superpowers with Modern Concentrated Collections Areas

Why Add Concentrated Collections Areas now?

For many decades, reading rooms, reference sections, journal areas and special collections areas have been popular areas of the academic library. However, apart from replacing the photocopiers in these concentrated collections areas with self-serve scanning systems, these areas have not kept up with the times. They need modern digital discovery, either DLSG’s HotLinks full-text search-match facility or at minimum, a full-text key term search facility such as what Google Scholar offers, both of which are in compliance with copyright case law (see Authors Guild v. Google).

In theory, an academic library can get double-digit increases in resource utilization and justify a multiple percentage budget increase. In fact, total costs can fall well below 1% of an academic library’s existing budget to place one or even two percent of a library’s print collections in one or more concentrated collections areas with DLSG’s turnkey solution, including HotLinks and ultrafast book scanners. These state-of-the-art concentrated collections areas add an intriguing new dimension and compelling new reasons to visit the library as well as remotely accessing library resources. Its benefits include:

Highly productive browsing – so much of interest concentrated in a small space
A revolutionary search-match facility that locates the most relevant excerpts within monographs
Rapid self-serve harvesting – most of the library’s popular books are a few steps away from the library’s fastest book scanners
Cost-effective ILL for monograph excerpts – library staff can fill up to 10 requests in an hour, a cost that should be easily reimbursable
Eventual full-text search and search-match for your entire print collections – as other libraries create their concentrated collections areas with books that are in your main collections

For the library, the lower reshelving costs over the years can finance a substantial portion of the costs of creating and maintaining your concentrated collections areas. In addition, DLSG is working on a low cost system for identifying the absence of any book from the shelves within moments, allowing libraries to rely on patrons to return the books to the shelves for a further cost reduction.

Unlike traditional Special Collections areas, whose books are usually selected by topic, age or rarity, these new concentrated collections areas can be comprised of professors reading lists, researchers’ relevant books and books that have been checked out more than once in recent years. In addition to making it substantially faster and easier for patron’s to find a book and scan an excerpt (see: “Library Superpowers”), it substantially reduces the time to return the book to the shelf.

Creating a Superior Concentrated Collections Area

The first step in creating a superior concentrated collections area is compiling a list of frequently accessed monographs and other books. If your intent is to create one large concentrated collections area (e.g. near a high traffic area of the main library), then it is likely that you will want to combine professors’ recommended reading lists with researchers’ relevant monographs lists and books that have been checked out more than once in the past few years.

The second step is allocating the space, moving the necessary number of bookshelves and at least one KIC digitization system into that space, then arranging for DLSG to setup the KIC system for ingesting books into a CCA. Once this has been done, you are ready to start ingesting books into the area.

The steps to ingesting books into a concentrated collections area:

Using DLSG’s CCA ingestion workflow, print a stack of ‘pull sheets’ (not unlike ILL pull sheets), three or four sheets per work hour
Gather each book, insert its pull sheet between any two pages, place it on a wheeled book cart and when finished, proceed to the KIC station in the concentrated collections area
Insert a CCA key into the KIC’s USB port
Scan a pull sheet, then scan the book, selecting section and chapter bookmarks while scanning. If you are using a KIC Bookeye 5, it should take a little over ten minutes to digitize an entire 300 page book at 300dpi (high image quality)
Press the CCA Export button to post the search-match metadata to the HotLinks system and optionally post a searchable PDF of the book to a secure search system such as a DSE Content Server from DLSG. Note that if posted to a DSE Content Server, the content can be lent using DLSG’s stransformative CDL+ system during pandemics or perhaps anytime).
Place the book on a CCA shelf.
Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 until finished scanning all books on the cart.
Repeat steps 1 through 7 until all books have been ingested.

At any time after the first books have been ingested, you can try out DLSG’s HotLinks Search-Match function.

Maintaining a Superior Concentrated Collections Area

Maintaining a CCA is simple. Simply add books in the same way that you initially ingested the books. If you wish to return a book from the CCA to the stacks or remove it to offsite storage, simply enter the book information into the CCA-enabled KIC station.

Self-Service Scanning ©-Law Exception 108(f)

KIC Self-Serve Digitization - the most cost-effective way for patrons to get copyrighted content

KIC is in over 1000 academic libraries and hundreds of public libraries today largely because it's a wonderfully cost-effective way for patrons to get copyrighted content from libraries in digital form, in stark of contrast with high-cost publisher subscription fees. DLSG suggests that academic libraries target 10% as the portion of digital content that patrons receive via self-serve scanning.

While subscription content is downloaded before the user can determine its relevance, library KIC users can read the content first to be certain that it is what they want, then digitize it in a few minutes. KIC can digitize a journal article or 30-page book excerpt in only one to two minutes, far less than the time it takes to check out a book, then return to the library to check it back in. In addition, patrons can take the PDF files of their digitized content off campus, and keep it forever.

Copyright Law: The only legal limitations to using KIC are

1. The content must be in print form and must be scanned by the user; and

2. The user must be informed that digitizing copyrighted content must comply with copyright law section 107 and 108(f)

Target 10%

As long as libraries underutilize ©-Law Section 108, scholarly publishing remains a monopoly. Thus, it’s compelling to set at least 10% as a target percentage of all scholarly content received by patrons to be from self-serve digitization kiosks.

The best ways to achieve 10%

… and justify substantial budget increases are:

1

Get students to perform more ©-Law Section 108(f) digitization by increasing awareness of the Section 108(f) digitization stations:

a. Place one or more info kiosks near library entrances and where students gather perhaps even outside the library, and configure those kiosks to inform students, faculty and researchers about your KIC self-serve digitization kiosks that are conveniently located near or amongst your print collections.
b. Promote KIC's free MyDocs app to students - MyDocs includes KIC Study System and HotLinks Study Tool with its Personal Digital Mind Palace, which instantly connects students to your Concentrated Collections Areas (CCAs), providing substantially more exposure to your library’s copyrighted content. Hotlinks provides a button for students to use when they are shown only summary information about some copyrighted content that is available in print (for checkout or for copying), but is not part of a digital subscription. The next time the student is in the library, he/she can digitize the content in a few minutes and instantly and flawlessly integrate the content into his/her HotLinks and Personal Digital Mind Palace. This also gets more students into your library, which can further justify budget increases.

Imagine many of your students importing course materials or a textbook chapter into MyDocs, performing a HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH, digitally discovering a chapter of a printed book on your library shelves, a chapter that is highly relevant, but unviewable due to copyright restrictions. Then imagine the student pressing a button to add the item to their digitize TODO list, digitizing the item, then going back to HotLinks and being able to view the item anywhere in the world, forever, legally, even without an internet connection. The value of your print collections will rise instantly. More information on HotLinks can be found below on this Web page.
c. Promote KIC's free MyDocs app for researchers - MyDocs includes HotLinks Research Tool with Personal Digital Mind Palace, which instantly connects researchers to your Concentrated Collections Areas (CCAs), providing substantially more exposure to your library’s copyrighted content. Hotlinks provides a button for researchers to use when HotLinks shows only summary information about some copyrighted content that is available in print (for checkout or for copying), and is not part of your institution’s digital subscription. The researcher can press an [ ILL ] request button and instantly request the content to be digitized by library staff, whether the content is a journal article or a few chapters in a monograph. Upon receipt by the researcher, the content is instantly and flawlessly integrated into his/her HotLinks and Personal Digital Mind Palace. This also gets more researchers to visit your library, which can further justify budget increases. More information on HotLinks can be found below on this Web page.

2

Place a six to eight station HotLinks with Mind Palace Collaboration System in a reservable collaboration room for collaborative study and research and other content. Each station is a 65 inch floor-standing touch screen. The user’s content appears larger than life on the leftmost touch screen. The screen to its right contains lists of highlights in the user’s content and in items found using HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery. Each highlight is linked to the source, and touching a highlight will result in the content being displayed instantly on one of the remaining 65 inch floor-standing stations. Hundreds of items of interest can be accessed instantly with a touch. Highlights can be shared among HotLinks users and can be printed along with citation information.

3

Implement a Concentrated Collections Area (CCA) with a high-speed KIC for quick and convenient access to and digitization of excerpts from several thousand of the most frequently accessed books and monographs and hundreds of thousands of frequently accessed journal articles. 1,000 frequently accessed books can be ‘catalogued’ into HotLinks per month by one worker. One worker can also ‘catalogue’ tens of thousands of journal articles into HotLinks per month. More…

Free Library App

MyDocs Library App allows users to harvest, capture & organize all library and textbook content for study and research on phone/tablet/PC.

Access ILL/DDD content, any digital output from KIC scan stations, and any imported digital material. More Info >

Features	Advantages
ReadAlong Audio (3 Study Methods)	Reading while listening is well known to significantly improve retention. In addition, users can also use just the audio or read normally without audio.
Highlighting with FlashCards (3 Study Methods)	Students are able to highlight their own private digital copy without defacing a textbook that they don't own, and instead of simply highlighting important text, KSS makes flashcards that can be used for easy review, and quiz themselves on the highlighted points. Note that frequent quizzes are well know to improve retention.
SKIM (2 Study Methods)	This feature can be used in two modes: 1) at high speed (e.g. 400-600 words per minute), for pre-reading a paragraph or two just prior to ReadAlong Audio, for reviewing just before a test, or for looking for some particular information that the student hasn't been able to find by searching; and 2) at normal reading speed (e.g. at 120-400 words per minute) for more comfortable reading on the small screen of a smart phone.
Study Progress Monitoring	This features shows how much of the study material has been covered once, twice or more using ReadAlong Audio, Skim and the study mode of Flashcards. In addition, it shows the results of the one and multiple flashcard quizzes.
Study Dashboard	This feature shows study progress summary information for each course that is in progress, allowing students to better allocate their study time between courses.
Small Smart Phone Support	KSS intelligently reflows text, pictures , diagrams, etc. for surprisingly effective studying experience on small smart phones. MyDocs Personal Network can automatically transfer study materials between Phone, Tablet and PC.
Personal Network	Once in their phone, KSS packets can be automatically transferred to the students' tablet and PC for seamless switching between devices for optimal study effectiveness.
Instant Access to Research	HotLinks Research Tool – Once a researcher inputs dozens of pages of personal research as well as journal articles, etc., into a KIC digitization system at the library and outputs KSS packets to MyDocs, he/she is a few touches and screen swipes away from instant access to up to 100 pages of the most relevant content in the HotLinks and DSE Content Server systems.
Instant Access to Alternate Study Materials	HotLinks Study Tool – Students that use KIC digitization systems at the library to digitize a textbook chapter and output a KSS packet to MyDocs can touch and swipe to the most relevant alternate study materials from a million pages of Open Educational Resources, or from all monographs in the HotLinks and DSE Content Server systems.

KIC Study System - Part of MyDocs

KIC Study System dramatically improves study efficiency and effectiveness

MyDocs is a free download from Microsoft, Apple and Android stores. KSS is a part of MyDocs that provides free access to Open Educational Resources (OER) and scanned content from KIC systems, with the following features:

ReadAlong Audio
Computer-assisted skim/review
Custom flashcards
Highlighting (HotLinked Highlights coming soon)
Study progress monitoring
Instant search-match and access to scholarly content via HotLinks Research & Study Tools
Repeat Audio for memorization as well as better retention and to assist with understanding
And more

HotLinks Research Tool

Scan or import research material as input to HotLinks. Your source material can be any length - just a few pages or 100 pages. Hotlinks is far better than keyword search. It characterizes the source material as whole, compares them with a billion pages of scholarly content, and returns the 100 best matches in seconds.

HotLinks offsets untold hours of administrative load and allows researchers to see the closest matches to their source material with simple repeated swipes across their touch screens, revealing consecutive search-matches.

HotLinks Study Tool

Students scan textbook chapters and course materials, send to MyDocs app on their tablet, phone or PC, and study with KSS.

At any time while studying their materials, they can activate HotLinks and swipe their screen and get instant access to high quality OER content that matches their current study topic, exposing them to alternate treatments of whatever they are studying. This can be an effective alternative to collaborative study during COVID.

Scan and send to MyDocs

KIC Study System

HotLinks Study Tool

Use any KIC station to scan course material, textbook chapters, and other study material quickly and efficiently.

Open resulting PDF in KIC Study System to skim, hear the material read around, and make, study and test flashcards.

Swipe to see other sources in OER libraries to read addition treatments and expand your understanding of the study material.

KSS for High School Students

Distance learning has disrupted study time as much as it has disrupted teaching. KIC Study System's graphical study progress tracking can be a great study coach. It also provides a powerful alternative to collaborative study - instant access to alternate treatments of a topic.

When a student is having trouble understanding some material, a mouse-click or touch screen swipe provides instant access to high-quality OER content on the same topic.

"I've skimmed and read my history twice. Time for biology."

"This SKIM is great for studying when I'm stuck somewhere with just my phone."

Open Educational Resources (OER) for High
School and Lower Division College Students

Use KSS instantly and free with the following OER

"My professor just told us about KSS and how to get the OER textbook he assigned. KSS is a great way to study."

LibreTexts
An Introduction to Nutrition
Bio2 Introduction to Human Biology
Biochemistry Free and Easy
Biochemistry Free for All
Biochemistry Online
Biodiversity
Biofundamentals
Biol3300 Genetics
Biology
Book Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology
Cascade Microbiology
Cells Molecules and Mechanisms
Entomology Lab Manual
Environmental Science
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Forest Measurements and Applied Approach
General Biology
General Microbiology Lab Manual
Introduction to Botany
Introduction to Environmental Science
Introduction to Genetics
Introduction to Microbiology
L C C Introduction to Botany Hawaii Based
Microbiology
MKBN211 Introductory Microbiology
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Quantitative Ecology A New Unified Approach
Information Systems for Business and Beyond
International Finance Theory and Policy
Introduction to Business
Macroeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
African American History
U S History
World History Cultures States and Societies to 1500
Psychology
Introductory Psychology
Sociology
International Relations Theory
Minority Studies
International Relations
Together The Science Of Social Psychology
Mind Body World Foundations Of Cognitive Science
A Short Introduction To World Politics
Principles Of Microeconomics
Biological Anthropology
A Primer On Politics
Introduction To Human Geography
World Regional Geography
Social Problems Continuity And Change
Language and Culture in Context
Discover Psychology a Brief Introductory Text
OpenStax
Algebra Trigonometry
American Government
Anatomy Physiology
A P Biology
A P College Physics
A P Macroeconomics
A P Microeconomics
Astronomy
Biology
Business Ethics
Business Law1
Calculus Volume1
Calculus Volume2
Calculus Volume3
Chemistry
Chemistry Atoms First
College Algebra
College Physics
College Success
Concepts Of Biology
Economics
Elementary Algebra
Entrepreneurship
Financial Accounting Volume1
Intermediate Algebra
Introduction To Business
Introductory Business Statistics
Introductory Statistics
Macroeconomics
Managerial Accounting Volume2
Microbiology
Microeconomics
Organizational Behavior
Physics Volume1
Physics Volume2
Physics Volume3
Pre- Algebra
Pre- Calculus
Principles Of Management
Psychology
Psychology-2e
Sociology
Statistics High school
U S History
Bay College
English 101
English 102
History 211
History 212
FYE103 Career Exploration
StanfordUniversityPress
American Yawp Volume 1
American Yawp Volume 2

KIC Study System (KSS)

Dramatically improve long-term retention and overall study effectiveness using nine study methods derived from powerful digital-age study technologies such as ReadAlong Audio, SKIM, custom Flashcards, and HotLinks Study Tools

Manage study effectively using detailed graphical study progress statistics. Study anywhere, any time. KSS is highly effective on smartphones and needs only intermittent internet access.

No Internet? No problem.

MyDocs only uses the internet occasionally, to get new study material and synchronize between your devices. Note that MyDocs checks for digital rights compliance when internet connection is re-established

KSS is even effective on the small screens of smartphones.

InterLibrary Loan ©-Law Exception 108(d)

BSCAN ILL digitization - the most cost-effective way for libraries to provide copyrighted content

BSCAN ILL is used by most of the 260+ R1 and R2 institutions, largely because it is the most cost-effective way for libraries to deliver digital copies of journal article content to their researchers, in stark contrast with publisher subscription fees.

Libraries can digitize the same journal article hundreds of times, taking only a minute or two each time, and each time, sending that article to a different requestor. In addition, patrons can take PDF files of ILL-requested digitized content off campus and keep it forever.

While downloaded subscriptions content can often be irrelevant to the user, if patrons are able to use 2D full-text SearchMATCH discovery, the possibility that the article is irrelevant is very low. Then in only one to two minutes, a 30-page excerpt can be digitized.

Complete Interlibrary Loan Scanning

and Image Treatment Workflow System

Complete Interlibrary Loan Scanning and Image Treatment Workflow System

... better image quality, fewer errors, and easier operation

In the early days of digital interlibrary loan and digital document delivery, the available software was simple and image quality expectations of requestors were low. Times have changed. The demand for faster workflow delivery and perfect, printer-ready images has made the current software environment complex, creating significant challenges in training new employees. BSCAN ILL simplifies existing processes and produces perfect, printer-ready images.

BSCAN ILL starts by eliminating the need to manually enter requestor information. BSCAN ILL automatically reads the information that is required by interlibrary loan document delivery software from scanned pull slips, not only saving time but also eliminating human error. BSCAN Interface

Articles are scanned using one of a family of high speed face-up scanners: Click Mini and Bookeye 4 V3, V2 & V1. By eliminating the constant book flipping required by flatbed scanners, these face-up scanners are three to five times faster than the fastest face-down scanners, and they do not cause book spine damage. For low volume ILL operations, BSCAN ILL also runs BookEdge flatbed scanners, employing their book edge feature and a faster mode that scans two pages at a time.

Once articles are scanned, BSCAN ILL's powerful image treatment capabilities automatically eliminate skew and remove unwanted black borders, fan and gutter.

Finally, BSCAN ILL automatically sends requests through Tipasa, ILLiad/Odyssey, Ariel, RAPIDo, Article Exchange, FTP, and e-mail and can notify ILLiad/Odyssey in each case, all without any need for further human intervention. Resending articles is also a snap.

If you could...

...add Digital Document Delivery services for as little as $2,000 per year, would you?

...cut your ILL scanning time in half for less than $2,000 per year, and in half again for $500 more, would you?

...simplify your digitization process, reduce worker training time, produce clean, straight print-ready images every time for $2,000 per year, would you?

What if you could do all this plus eliminate keying the requestor info, automatically deliver articles, resend requests days later if a delivery failure occurs, and operate seamlessly with all other ILL software and systems (e.g. Tipasa, Article Exchange, ILLiad/Odyssey, Ariel, FTP & email)?

...would you?

BSCAN ILL
Dramatically Improves ILL Digitization

A fundamental tenet that has always bound the academic research community together is open sharing of newfound knowledge. Today, this open sharing is going on at a feverish pace and digital interlibrary loan services are an essential vehicle. Scholars from all fields are becoming increasingly dependent on their ability to acquire journal articles in just one day.

In the early 1990s, the pioneers of interlibrary loan digitization had no choice but to adapt commercial scanning equipment to meet their needs. Ariel was the only available document delivery software and there were no scanners made specifically for scanning books, journals and maps. Over time, that changed. Planetary scanners became available in the late 1990s. The first release of BSCAN ILL automatically read (using OCR) the requestor information from pull slips without manual keying, supported rapid scanning and image cleanup, and automatically posted to Ariel with the press of a single button. Since then, ILLiad, Odyssey, Ariel, RAPIDo and Article Exchange have been integrated into BSCAN ILL with the same hands-off automation. BSCAN ILL has a host of valuable features, many of which are not available with any other system.

In addition to allowing review of electronic articles and resource sharing to reduce per article scanning costs (e.g. for archival, electronic course materials creation, scanning projects), only BSCAN ILL offers you:

One easy user interface, integrated seamlessly with Tipasa, Article Exchange, ILLiad/Odyssey, RAPIDo, Ariel, FTP & Email - reduces training time significantly
Optimized for the latest technology in face-up scanners, including all Bookeye models, Click Mini, and face-down scanners such as BookEdge and WideTEK 25
Automatically reading of requestor information from pull slips
Automatically sending without intervention by the scan operator
Central management with central, portable and remote scanning
Automatic hold of all scanned articles for up to 30 days for fast correcting and easy resending
Automatic updating of ILLiad/Odyssey, even if the request was delivered by another means such as Tipasa, Ariel, FTP or email
Automatic image cleanup and output of 'printer-ready' images

In light of the great value ILL represents for research libraries, DLSG suggests that they TARGET10% as the portion of digital content that their patrons receive via ILL. To increase ILL use, four of the five self-serve digitization target suggestions for KIC (excluding suggestion 2) will promote greater ILL use if the library includes a significant number of print journals in their CCA ingestion process.

BSCAN ILL Scanner Component Options

2D Full-Text SearchMATCH Discovery

For Students

For Researchers

For many decades, physical card catalogs were an essential part of the library. Scholarly discovery advanced tremendously with digital card catalogs and journal article abstract search systems such as WorldCat. It’s not surprising that many researchers and librarians thought that it couldn’t get better than that. Then in 2004, scholarly discovery made another tremendous advancement with full-text search of scholarly content, and again, many thought it couldn’t get better.

Yet full-text search has a fundamental limitation – it takes only a few key terms as input. Researchers typically create and acquire hundreds, even thousands of pages of content relevant to their research over months and years. In addition, college students are assigned hundreds of pages of relevant study materials at the beginning of each semester. The next generation discovery system must be able to accept hundreds of pages of content as ‘search’ input.

In the past year, two tremendous new discovery technologies became available, ChatGPT and HotLinks Research Tool, and both of these technologies can take many pages of content as input. HotLinks was built for scholarly research and study and can take hundreds of pages of research or study materials as input, and ChatGPT can also take many pages as input. From that point forward, these two systems differ greatly. ChatGPT can create multiple pages of text output and can even create images. HotLinks exists to serve researchers and college students and as such, does not draw conclusions, leaving that to its users.

Discovery Technologies Comparison

Full-Text Search vs Artificial Intelligence(e.g.ChatGPT) vs HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH

Discovery Technologies Comparison Chart	Full-Text Search	Artificial Intelligence	HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH
Support for simple key term search/discovery	YES	YES	YES
Input of 100+ pages (beyond simple key terms)	NO	YES	YES
Correlation 100+ pages of input with billions of pages of scholarly research	NO	YES	YES
Instant access to subscription-based content (when on-campus)	NO*	N/A	YES
Deterministic algorithms that do not obscure findings from researchers and instead, allow researchers to draw their own conclusions	YES	NO	YES
Publisher-power agnostic (does not increase dependency on publishers)	NO	Unknown	YES
Integrated with Personal Digital Mind Palace	NO	NO	YES

Instantly Research Billions of Pages

HotLinks Research Tool leads the way to a whole new era in research, taking dozens of pages of research as input, characterizing all pages, then in seconds, finding the best matches from a billion pages of monographs and other scholarly content. HotLinks then lines the results up for instant access to result after result, one per swipe/click.

Some of the
Instantly Accessible
OER Titles

LibreTexts
An Introduction to Nutrition
Bio2 Introduction to Human Biology
Biochemistry Free and Easy
Biochemistry Free for All
Biochemistry Online
Biodiversity
Biofundamentals
BIOL3300 Genetics
Biology
Book Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology
Cascade Microbiology
Cells Molecules and Mechanisms
Entomology Lab Manual
Environmental Science
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Forest Measurements and Applied Approach
General Biology
General Microbiology Lab Manual
Introduction to Botany
Introduction to Environmental Science
Introduction to Genetics
Introduction to Microbiology
L C C Introduction to Botany Hawaii Based
Microbiology
MKBN211 Introductory Microbiology
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Introduction to Business
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World History Cultures States and Societies to 1500
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Introductory Psychology
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Mind Body World Foundations Of Cognitive Science
A Short Introduction To World Politics
Principles Of Microeconomics
Biological Anthropology
A Primer On Politics
Introduction To Human Geography
World Regional Geography
Social Problems Continuity And Change
Language and Culture in Context
Discover Psychology a Brief Introductory Text
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* some full-text search systems provide a programmatic interface (an API) for accessing the content

StudentResearcher
Receives Answer

StudentResearcher
Derives his/her
Own Conclusions
from Hot Links

Inside HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery System

HotLinks extracts thousands of key terms from the input material, including textbook chapters, course materials,research papers, journal articles, monograph excerpts, etc., and performs a search on each of the thousands of key terms. The thousands of results for each of the thousands of search terms are then fed into the HotLinks matching system, which finds the best matches with the input material and sorts those matches by relevance to the source materials. The diagram below illustrates the process.

Note: HotLinks comes preloaded with five million Open Access journal articles and 16,000 Open Access monographs and books, and is ready to connect with your institution’s subscription-based content servers.

Hundreds of Key Terms from Study Materials (e.g. one or two chapters)

Hundreds of Search Results

100+ Most Highly Correlated / Relevent Items in Priority Order

Thousands of Key Terms from Research Materials (e.g. journals)

Thousands of Search Results

200+ Most Highly Correlated / Relevent Items in Priority Order

DLSG’s Personal Digital Mind Palace allows studentresearcher to highlight relevant content in hundreds of HotLinks SearchMATCH results. In the same and future sessions, navigating between all of the relevant content found in HotLinked journal articles and monograph/book chapters is instant –simply selecting a highlight instantly displays the highlight in the context of the journal article or monograph/book chapter containing it.

In addition, at any time, a studentresearcher can output the highlighted content with citations to the source documents, eliminating the tedium from that process.

Preservation, Archives & Digital Fence

High Performance Digital Preservation / Archival Systems Opus Workflow & Opus FreeFlow for controlled project management including digitization, image treatment and metadata capture

The Opus digitization process was designed specifically for academic libraries, museums and archives. Use opus workflow to build digital assets for preservation, archive, digital collections for the Web, and for viewing software. Its image treatment processes such as fan, gutter and book curvature removal, and content location and registration, are dramatically faster and easier to use than photo editing software.

Opus operates a wide array of preservation quality scanners and allows for the import of existing images as well. It then groups images into objects (i.e. books), which are easily managed and processed. Finally, it renders those objects into a variety of derivatives.

One product...
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Opus has a range of options and prices. Opus WorkFlow is for larger digitization projects. It supports multiple stations and multiple simultaneous workers. Some Opus WorkFlow features are available in Opus FreeFlow as options. Ask your DLSG representative for more information.

Opus FreeFlow Lite is a solid and easy-to-use entry-level product, while Opus FreeFlow includes the most popular features, yet remains easy to use is. Use Opus FreeFlow for smaller projects and ad hoc scanning.

Superior Image Treatment... Designed for Projects and Archival
Fully Integrated Hierarchical Metadata Capture
Next Generation Workflow with Automatic Archive
Open RAID Digital Archiving & Migration Management Software using Automated Data Migration Facility
Customizable output formats including Web with virtual 3D page tuning
Enlightened Architecture
Supported by experienced digital experts
Creation of large amounts of derivatives unattended (e.g. overnight)

Digital Stacks Ecosystem

Below is a diagram of nine seamlessly integrated and wonderfully interoperable elements of the Digital Stacks Ecosystem, including the world's first relevancy-based discovery system for your print collections, and the world's first Digital Fence implementation of (c)-Law Section 109(c), giving patrons legal access to digital copies of copyrighted content using their own PCs, tablets or phones while the patrons are in the library. Together, these two Digital Stacks Ecosystem elements can greatly increase demand for self-serve and staff-performed digitization, making it possible, perhaps even easy, to deliver an extra 20% beyond what the digital subscriptions are providing, at less than half the cost.