Library Challenges with Current Tools:

LIBRARY

Tool not adequate

to support both citation metadata

and full text documents

No social environment to

assist with collaboration

Limited data to show value of tool to the library or its

patrons

Limited resources to

support various technology

Lack of awareness to

copyright

Clunky,hard-to-use

user interface

Flow solves problems…

Tool not adequate

to support both citation metadata

and full text documents

No social environment to

assist with collaboration

No data to show value of tool to the library or its

patrons

Limited resources to

support various technology

Lack of awareness to

copyright

Clunky,hard-to-use

user interface

Integrated reference

and full text document

management

Centered on collaboration

Improved value of the

library to patrons and university

Insightinto usagepatterns

Sensitive to copyright

Intuitive, yet powerful

LIBRARY

DefinitionConceptualization

, Funding

DiscoverySearch, Recommen-dations, Networking

Organization

ConsumingReading, Annotating

Sharing, Collaboration

AuthoringSynthesis,

Collaborative authoring

(Pre)pubSubmission, OA prepublication,

hosting

Researcher Workflow

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COSPivot

SummonPlatformebraryCOS

Flow

Flowebrary

Flow

Flow

Flow (planned)(ETD)

Tightly integrated PQ assets

Researcher Workflow

3rd party ecosystem integration

MS WordGoogle Docs

(OA) publishersPeer review systems

(Aries)figshare

Social mediaDropbox

ORCIDVIVO

Confidential.

Discovery & Research ManagementWorkflow Product Integration

5

Discover

Easily find reliable information

Store & Organize

Store & organizefull-text

documents in1 easy to access

location.

Collaborate

Share references, annotations &

documents with others

Integrate into the writing process

Analyze

Conduct on analytics to

improve usage patterns, collection development, ROI

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Complete Research Environment

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