bX Recommender Feature Now Available in Find It Service
GALILEO is pleased to announce the inclusion of a new feature within the Find It Service, which is powered by the SFX OpenURL software.
bX is an article recommendation service that appears in Find It menus when recommendations for other “like” articles are available. These recommendations are relevant because they are based on the analysis of millions of transactions related to the context of the user’s work.
How is this accomplished? Ex Libris combs the SFX usage statistics in order to discover relationships between articles. They are looking, in particular, for other similar articles a user may have accessed in association with other articles. This use data is then mined for subject and keyword connections in order to make the recommendations stronger.
To see what bX looks like for yourself, click on the following OpenURL. You will see the bX recommender service showing in the menu (note that the links on this menu will not work for your institution as this is an example):
bX recommendations are only available for articles where data/relationships exist. It is possible that recommendations will not appear in all Find It menus.