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Gateway to Australian Educational Research: New Products Services from ACER

Australasian Education Directory (AED) Milestone 2006 edition ... Collaborative web space users as providers of information in

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Gateway to Australian Educational Research: New Products Services from ACER

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    Slide 1:Gateway to Australian Educational Research: New Products & Services from ACER

    Sue Clarke Manager, Cunningham Library, ACER Tine Grimston Librarian, Information Collection and Organisation National Library of Australia, Innovative Ideas Forum 3-4 April 2006

    Slide 2:Outline & Introduction

    Researchers require access to research carried out by colleagues worldwide Refereed scholarly journals, books, theses, research reports Changes to strategic environment for scholarly research in education ARIIC, ADT, APSR, ARROW, international open access movement, emergence of digital repositories, impact on online publishing & internet services Challenge – to think beyond academic libraries to professional and research organisations

    Slide 3:Overview & Introduction

    ACER is placed strategically to provide access to educational research information both nationally and internationally, as it is a major research and publishing organisation ACER Library’s produces products and services which includes the core product the Australian Education Index as well as others which will be mentioned today This presentation will share information about various innovative services that enhance resource discovery in Australian education Some issues and challenges facing online publishing, information research and retrieval will be highlighted at the end of the presentation

    Slide 4:Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

    Australia’s premier educational research organisation An independent, not for profit organisation since 1930 Creates and disseminates knowledge and tools to improve learning in the context of lifelong learning International orientation to work with offices in India, Dubai and Cambridge, UK www.acer.edu.au

    Slide 5:ACER Research Programs

    Assessment and reporting Early Childhood Education Learning Processes and Contexts National & International Surveys Systems and School Testing Teaching & Learning Transitions & Economics of Education

    Slide 6:Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

    Slide 7:Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) – Cunningham Library

    Build and maintain an information resource which supports policy development, research, practice and debate in the field of education Provide information access to the education community on research and practice in the field of Australian education Compile and maintain the Australian Education Index and other knowledge based products such as the Australasian Education Directory, the Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors

    Slide 8:ACER Cunningham Library Gateway to Educational Research

    http://www.acer.edu.au/library/index.html

    Slide 10:ACER Library Developments in Products & Services to be highlighted today

    Online publishing initiative - Australasian Education Directory (AED) Online content of national interest - EdResearch Online Improvements in resource discovery - Education Research Theses (ERT)

    Slide 11:Australasian Education Directory (AED)

    Slide 12:Australian Education Directory (AED)

    Concise accurate guide to nearly 800 educational institutions & related organisations Comprehensive directory of organisations & personnel in Australia in education Produced since 1990 in print form from ACER Press First electronic version was a cd-rom in 1990 First web version in 2001on ACER Library website

    Slide 13:Australasian Education Directory (AED) – Milestone 2006 edition

    2006 print edition extensively revised and now includes 2 sequences 1) Australia & 2) New Zealand New Zealand entries were already available in the online version Online version sold from the Library website Renamed the Australasian Education Directory to reflect expanded content Electronic edition through RMIT Informit from 3rd April 2006

    Slide 14:Australasian Education Directory (AED) through Informit

    Features of Informit indexes and packages Subscribers to Informit suite of indexes will now receive the AED as part of the package Search across all databases or the individual database 2 databases – contacts & organisations Search syntax including: field, phrase searching, boolean searching, etc Help facility, technical support Support for EndNote

    Slide 15:Australasian Education Directory (AED)

    Coming soon to informit

    Slide 16:Australasian Education Directory - maintenance

    We welcome notification of changes to the information in the directory so that a current database is maintained Organisations not listed are invited to contribute relevant details at aed@acer.edu.au

    Slide 17:Reuse & repackaging of education information

    Australian Education Index (AEI) is our main product. Includes freely available content but not pay per view online content EdResearch Online is a subset of AEI with links to paid full text A+ education is AEI plus the full text from EdResearch Online Theses are a subset of AEI database

    Slide 20:EdResearch Online

    Slide 21:EdResearch Online

    Research repository of online articles from over 130 leading education journals Copyright clearance from CAL Bibliographic details and links to over 10,000 full text articles published since 2000 Abstracts free but pay for full text article via secure credit card

    Slide 22:EdNA Online

    EdResearch Online is now available through EdNA online EdNA advanced search screen shows ACER EdResearch Online as one of the options to search Click on the URL in EdNA results screen and you see the full record in EdResearch Online

    Slide 23:EdNA online-Advanced search screen

    Slide 24:EdNA results page

    Slide 25:Click on URL in results screen and you see the full record in EdResearch Online

    Slide 26:This is the search screen if you go direct from the ACER website

    Slide 27:Education Research Theses (ERT)

    Doctoral & Masters Theses

    Slide 28:Education Research Theses (ERT)

    The only comprehensive source of unique research found in doctoral and masters research theses accepted by Australian universities in the field of education Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from 1919 to the present, updated monthly More than 12,000 entries Data contributed to Aust Education Index since 1978 Subject headings are assigned from Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors ATED, the Core grant to produce ERT was phased out in 2002 at which point it became available by subscription

    Slide 29:Education Research Theses (ERT)

    ERT has a small number of subscribers (20) Australian Digital Theses (ADT) is trawled to identify further theses for inclusion in ERT with monthly updates Libraries are now providing this information as it is received rather than waiting to be asked 1,900 database searches per month

    Slide 30:ERT Customer Survey Results

    Slide 31:New initiatives following survey

    Duplication – working with ADT & NLA in second half of 2006 to look at product synergies Included all the pre-1978 theses in AEI so all theses are now in AEI & A+Education Search functionality improved Provide value not found elsewhere, ATED descriptors, one place for Education theses

    Slide 32:Improved Search functionality

    Slide 33:Advanced Search Screen

    Slide 34:Able to sort results by Year, title or author

    Slide 35:Challenges for Information Providers

    Professional and research organisations have a range of services available to their members and stakeholders Explore how ACER fits into the national information infrastructure by continually developing new business models according to customer needs & changes in scholarly publishing Researchers want less places to look when finding information and / or Federated searching across content & open url compliance

    Slide 36:Some Questions??

    The role of information providers in the Google web world – if people want to find information, will they just use Google (and find what they want?) or go to a systematically indexed database? The role of organised systematically indexed material and constructed thesauri, taxanomy like Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED), vs free text searching of full text With more and more material being made open access, will people pay for information? Collaborative web space – users as providers of information in “My web”, wikis & blogs, RSS feeds

    Slide 37:Conclusion

    ACER is strategically placed to work with the educational research community and collaborative partners to explore new business models, develop metadata and document repositories to avoid duplication of effort and fragmented collections of resources Examples have been provided of some initiatives with Informit, education.au, and the education community We welcome collaborative discussions with people here today so please let us know if you have any ideas!

    Slide 38:Contact

    Sue Clarke clarke@acer.edu.au Tine Grimston grimston@acer.edu.au www.acer.edu.au

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