OA and repositories : beyond green and gold - Jens Vigen - June 11 - IATUL 2007

Jens Vigen, Library Director
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Open Access and repositories : beyond green and gold

both subject repositories and institutional repositories

* subject repositories - used by researchers
* institutional repositories - store and track organisation's research output

constructing new repository system
applied for grant for 50 person years over the next 4 years

standing on digital shoulders

* more than 15 years after the invention of the Web, scientific information remains an electronic clone
of the paper era
* specialized libraries can play a pivotal role in preparing the route for their communities
towards eScience

Scientific information provision in the era of eScience

* full text and data mining
* detection of relations between articles
* treatment of large datasets for satistical and citation analyses
* identification of popular and influential articles and authors with complementary ranking criteria:
alternative metrics to ISI
* access to numerical info from figures and tables within articles
* offer integrated access to primary scientific data

[mentions some interesting work at LANL on mapping relationships between articles]

[belives the EU 7th framework will produce a lot of results in the above areas]

HEP (high energy physics)

* infrastructure for repository of scientific information
* entire corpus of HEP information in one place
* current priority
- empower the repository with new technology and conent: enabling researchs to explore information
matching the emerging expectations of the eScience era

survey to see if they are meeting user needs

results will be published as a paper

systems used

3% publisher portals
11% google

86% community services
- 28% subject repositories
- 58% specialised libraries

tagcloud (tagcrowd)

important features of an information system
* 93% depth of coverage
* 91% quality of content
* 94% access to full text
* 93% search accuracy

What changes do (surveyed responders) expect?

* seamless access to articles via portal
* improved full-text search
* conference presentations indexed and link to articles
* publication of data
* peer-review overlaid on subject repositories
* smarter search tools

dreams

* see research in context, follow a research thread
* ... more

VIsion
* build a complete HEP information system
* with full-text, data-mining etc.
* demonstrate and deploy Web 2.0 applications in the domain of sciences

Conclusions
...
* librarians have the opportunity to play a key role in the era of eScience
* express interest if you would like to join

Comment: engineering is not as advanced in information use