Ingest your print journals into Concentrated Collections Areas and offer … so that students and researchers can utilize the iDREAM technologies to enhance study and research.

Input many pages of content (e.g., textbook chapters, research notes, journal articles)

Discover relevant textbook, monograph and/or journal articles from 100+ million pages of open access content and rapidly growing, and copyright controlled content

Retrieve the open access content anywhere, and when in the library, copyrighted content from library-owned items

Extract phrases, sentences and paragraphs from hundreds of items, including source info, simply by highlighting

Annotate highlighted content with meaningful notes

Master the content by effortlessly and instantly navigating between highlights in hundreds of items

Students can, with the touch of a button, instantly create a KIC scan list for content from many copyrighted print items and visit the concentrated collections areas (CCAs) that contain the scan list items and digitize excerpts (in compliance with ©-Law Section 108(f))

Researchers can, with the touch of a button, instantly make ILL requests for selected journal articles and for excerpts from monographs.

Eventually, you will be able to demand more print journals from publishers and/or get agreements from publishers to allow their journal articles to be viewed digitally while in the library and/or allow article PDFs to be downloaded.

In 2019, Overdrive was purchased from Rakuten by KKR, the inventors of leveraged buyouts. It is highly unlikely that a leveraged buyout firm such as KKR would purchase a business such as Overdrive unless Overdrive could impose monopoly pricing, and book publishers certainly have monopolies on the books they publish, for all books are unique.

In 2020, Project ReShare was begun, to address distance learning needs and perhaps also as an alternative to rising Overdrive prices. For without some form of controlled digital lending, libraries are unable to lend the print books they purchased over the decades, and are stuck having to pay the rising Overdrive prices. When Internet Archive lost the controlled digital lending (CDL) lawsuit, basic CDL was outlawed.

Libraries everywhere have tremendous investments in print collections. Yet they can’t offer their patrons controlled digital lending of the print items that they paid for and own. However, the copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section 109(c) allow libraries to display all of their library’s content provided that for each page displayed, there is one owned copy of that page and that owned copy is in the same place as the image being displayed.

DLSG’s Digital Fence strictly applies the copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section 109(c), allowing patrons to use their own computers, tablets and phones as well as patron-use PCs to read any content that is in the library while the patron is in the library.

Libraries everywhere have tremendous investments in print collections. Yet they can’t offer their patrons controlled digital lending of the print items that they purchased over many decades and own. Instead, they are forced to use Overdrive and pay again and again.

However, the copyright law limitation specified in Title 17 section 109(c) allow libraries to display all of their library’s content provided that, for each page displayed, there is one owned copy of that page and that owned copy is in the same place as the image being displayed. DLSG’s Digital Fence strictly applies this copyright law limitation, and allows patrons to use their own computers, tablets and phones as well as patron-use PCs to read the content of any item in the library that has been registered with the system and for which access is controlled.

For Universities, DLSG’s HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery allows patrons to enter many pages of content which HotLinks uses to match with tens of millions of items.

Students can input one or several textbook chapters and get instant access to the most relevant content in your library as well as the most relevant content from 16,000 Open Access digital books. These alternate treatments of study material can effectively replace study groups, which is especially valuable when needs may arise at midnight before a test.

Researchers can input their own research along with multiple journal articles and get instant access to the most relevant content from tens of millions of Open Access journal articles, and while in the library, get instant access to your library’s most relevant print journals content. Unlike other discovery systems, moving from relevant article to relevant article is virtually instantaneous.

Research is especially well-facilitated by DLSG’s Personal Digital Mind Palace. When a researchers find something especially applicable to their research, they can highlight their most salient phrase, sentence or paragraph and the Digital Mind Palace will extract the text and the source information and place it with others in a potentially long list for later review and instant navigation back to the source document, and for export using its built-in automatic citations feature.

Digital journal subscriptions allow the subscribing university’s researchers to download articles and keep them forever. For the convenience of not having to digitize printed articles, universities pay huge subscription fees year after year, fees that can exceed several dollars per page downloaded. In stark contrast, a 15 page print journal article can be digitized in a minute on one of DLSG’s high-speed KIC self-serve digitization kiosks and also kept by the researcher forever. Concentrated Collections Areas make quick work of finding the content and taking a few steps to the CCA’s dedicated KIC digitization kiosk.

It seems only reasonable that self-serve and ILL digitization should each represent 10% of all digital content received by academic library patrons – university budget committees don’t care where the content comes from as long as it satisfies their students, faculty and researchers. Getting funds to cover the relatively small costs of the equipment is a small problem when compared with the problem of how the library can get its students, faculty and researchers to make more use of self-serve digitization kiosks and digital ILL.

DLSG’s solution to this problem is HotLinks 2D SearchMATCH Discovery with Personal Digital Mind Palace and Digital Fence. These tools are highly effective at finding relevant content for ILL and self-serve digitization and will surely increase use of these most cost-effective means of getting content to patrons. Together, these technologies provide the following benefits to your patrons.

• 2D Full-text SearchMATCH, which can take 100 pages of input such as a chapter of a textbook along with some course materials, or a researcher’s own work and some journal articles
• SearchMATCH tens of millions of Open Access journal articles AND all your libraries digitized copyright-controlled content AND eventually, much (or all) of your university’s subscriptions content
• Full-text access while in the library, in compliance with Title 17 Section 109(c)
• When items of particular interest are found, key phrases, sentences or paragraphs can be highlighted, and the text added to a highlights list along with its source information (citation metadata).
• For patrons with the authority to make ILL requests, making a request is just a button-press away
• For all patrons, when a journal article or book chapter is found that is copyright controlled and the user wishes to view that content when they leave the library, getting the content is just a button-press away

Students, faculty and researchers must control the AI system rather than the other way around.

In the coming decades, AI will likely amaze and confound many times. With the fastest AI advancements driven by commercial objectives and of course, nefarious objectives as well, facilitating study, instruction and research are not likely to get the attention they deserve. Having developed multiple systems over the decades that amalgamate human and machine for optimal results, including their latest amalgamation, HotLinks with Mind Palace, DLSG’s design team is ready, willing and able to integrate the latest AI systems into HotLinks with Mind Palace in ways that allow the user to retain ultimate control over the process, whether it be a learning process, an instruction process or a research process.

To this end, we are actively investing in a highly innovative approach for attracting and retaining the best software engineering talent in the world for this AI integration, that is, top engineers that are not completely sold on working for the most famous software engineer employers: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, SpaceX, xAI, et al. DLSG will assemble hundreds of top software engineers for this long-term project using funds from the adoption of its revolutionary new study and research products: MyDocs with KIC Study System, Digital Fence and HotLinks with Mind Palace.

Free access to newfound scholarly knowledge is essential for civilization - after making possible the end of thousands of years of [various forms of] feudalism and slavery, scientific advancements and innovation continued to improve quality of life for everyone fast enough to keep everyone working together to keep quality of life improving … until recently.

In order to ensure that newfound knowledge continues to be created fast enough to support ample scientific advancement and innovation, authors must be reasonably well compensated, and publishers must make profits to support authors and to ensure that the quality of the created knowledge is high.

However, free access to copyrighted scholarly and research content for those that can't afford to buy it at today's high prices is also essential for the future of civilization – a substantial portion of scientific advancements are made by non-rich people. In fact, most innovations are made by people that are willing to take chances and are more interested in innovating than accumulating wealth or power ... people that don’t have a lot to lose.

But if libraries were to make all their copyrighted content instantly free to access digitally, anywhere at any time, there would be no reason for anyone to purchase content except libraries. This is why basic controlled digital lending (CDL) is illegal. CDL would probably be legal for types of copyrighted content that only libraries typically purchase. For other types of content, free access must somehow be regulated, or it must include non-financial costs.

Fortunately, getting copyrighted content from libraries has built-in non-financial costs – patrons normally must visit the library physically to read or borrow books. Patrons can access copyrighted content digitally when they are at the library, provided printed copies of the content are also at the library, in compliance with copyright law Title 17 Section 109(c), or:

• patrons take the time to physically copy or digitize the content themselves, and they copy or digitize no more than about 10% of a book or a single article from a journal; or
• library staff digitizes for them no more than about 10% of a book or a single article from a journal. Note that it is also illegal for library staff to avoid digitizing every request (e.g., by holding digitized content for future requests).

Insufficient free access to scholarly knowledge is a crisis that must be resolved. The virtuous cycle of research and innovation is no longer producing improvements in quality of life fast enough to compel people to work together and not fight each other as if the others are somehow responsible for the problems they are experiencing. One significant reason for the slowing of advancements in quality of life is the substantial drop in accessibility of research and scholarly content due to rising costs of research articles and declining monograph publishing. It is likely that the big five journal publishers believe that maximizing profits is ‘the righteous way of the world’, and they seem to be unstoppable.

Rather than help libraries try to fight the rising prices [possibly in vain], DLSG recognizes that the value of the content can easily support higher prices and bigger library budgets, provided the content is enhanced with technologies that substantially facilitate research, innovation and study. This is why DLSG invested over 300,000 engineering professional hours to develop 'game-changing' technologies that improve research and study so substantially that they increase the value of research, monograph, and textbook content enough to compel universities to increase academic library funding and governments to increase public library funding significantly.