The CISTI Source/SUMO Experience at McGill University
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary The soaring cost of journal subscriptions has caused budgetary difficulties for many libraries. This presentation details an alternative to journal subscriptions: a Subsidized Unmediated Ordering (SUMO) service. Since November 1996, McGill University libraries have utilized the CISTI Source/SUMO service from which faculty, staff, and graduate students can browse a table of contents database over the Internet, order articles, and receive them directly to their desktop, thus bypassing the library's catalog and interlibrary loan service completely. The document delivery costs of this service represent only a fraction of the subscription costs for the same journals within the same year. Using the CISTI Source/SUMO service, McGill University libraries were able to provide a wider range of journal titles in a more timely and economical fashion than traditional print subscriptions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it