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THOUSAND FACES OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY

THOUSAND FACES OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY. post-conference seminar on Databases and Evaluation of SSH Research Vilnius, 25 Sep 2013. Jadranka Stojanovski University of Zadar/Rudjer Boskovic Institute. Croatia. 4.5M population 11k scholars 7 universities, 25 research institutes

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  1. THOUSAND FACES OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY post-conference seminar on Databases and Evaluation of SSHResearch Vilnius, 25 Sep 2013 Jadranka Stojanovski University of Zadar/Rudjer Boskovic Institute

  2. Croatia • 4.5M population • 11k scholars • 7 universities, 25 research institutes • Ministry of Science, Education and Sports • 2120 research projects • 20k papers per year • 1300 islands

  3. About me • Physicist LIS • Until 2009 directorofthebiggestresearchlibraryin Croatia (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) • From 2009 teacher at theinformationsciencedept (Univ Zadar) • Interests: scholarlycommunication, bibliometricsandaltmetrics, researchinformationsystems… • Startedseveralnationalprojects… • …I’ll presentthreeofthem

  4. CroatianScientificBibliography CROSBI 377.758 bibliographicrecords >20.000 full-text deposited >30.000 links to the full-text

  5. CROSBI (1997-) goals • Currentresearchbibliography • Multidisciplinary • Createdbyresearchers – monitoredbylibrarians • Singleaccess place for all researchoutputof a:researcherresearchprojectinstitution • 4.000 visits /day • Evaluationpurposes

  6. Questions • More controlledinput? (Wikipedia?) • „filterandsearch” or „searchandfilter”? (Google? Bubbles?) • How to get (evensmall) support?

  7. Portal ofCroatian OA journals HRČAK

  8. Howhrcakwasinvented...

  9. Croatian journals - challenges • low visibility • difficulties with distribution • small number of subscribers (mostly local) • low circulation • insufficient finances • poor infrastructure (including ICT) • low readability • low citation impact • not-always-reliable peer review policies • lack of standards in editorial processes

  10. Importance of the Croatian scholarly publishing • communication of science in Croatia • research topics of local or national interest • Croatian language • development of skills and competences: editing, publishing and writing (& citing) • need to get/raise credibility

  11. HRČAK – initial goals • simple way to make online version of the (printed) journal • single access point for all Croatian open access journals (scholarly, professional and popular science) • metadata and full-text articles repository • data sharing – with international repositories, databases, archives

  12. HRČAK today • Journals: 342 • Journal issues: 7.938 • Articles (metadata): 5.436 • Articles (full-text): 99.426 • Improvedcommunicationwitheditorials • Improvededitorialpolicies • Improvedcommunicationbetweeneditorials • Education

  13. Top ten journals by content (#of full-text papers): • Theological Review (5964) • Collegium Antropologicum (2379) • Folk Art: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (2305) • ActaClinicaCroatica (1796) • Dairy Industry (1671) • Renewed Life (1595) • Journal for General Social Issues (1387) • ActastomatologicaCroatica (1366) • The Journal of the Institute of Croatian History (1139) • Political Thought (1125) The oldest HRČAK journal – from 1870

  14. HRČAK journals by discipline

  15. Usage • Byhumans: • 6M visits/year • 0.5M visits/month • visit is defined as any number of requests from the same IP address processed during a period of 30 minutes • Byrobots: • 4.500 /month • OAI-PMH

  16. Cooperation with (not)-for-profit databasesandrepositoriesproducers/publishers • Elsevier/Scopus – 105 Croatian journals • ThomsonReuters/WoS – 65 Croatian journals • Google Scholar – all HRČAK journals • DOAJ – 88 Croatianjournals • citation impact

  17. Web 2.0 applications

  18. Who’s Who inCroatianScience

  19. What is bibliography? • the systematic cataloging, study, and description of written and printed works, especially books(1) the listing of works according to some system (descriptive or enumerative bibliography) or (2) the study of works as tangible objects (critical or analytical bibliography) (EB) • (from Greek βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia, literally "book writing"), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects (Wikipedia) • a list ofbooks, magazines, articles, etc., about a particularsubject (MerriamWebster)

  20. WhatGooglethinksaboutbibliographies?

  21. What are bibliographiestoday? • Differencesbetweenrepositories, archives, full-textdatabases, e-journalcollections…? • Differencesbetweencatalogues, bibliographies, indices….?

  22. Whatuserslike? • „I wantit all, and I wantitnow!”

  23. Open Access to 876.345 e-prints

  24. Possibleevaluationcriteria for a bibliography • Typesofpublications • Coverage – geographical, temporal, disciplines • Coverage – numberofpublications • Quality – institution’s reputation, addedvalue • Availableformats, OS, apps • Printingpossibilities • Easeof use, user-centereddesign • Searchingandbrowsingtools • Managingsearchresults • User’s community • Business model • Sustainability • Feedback • Availability • Costs • Licencing – CreativeCommonsetc.

  25. Additionalfeatures • Design • Richfunctionalities • News from scholarly publishing world – raisingawareness • New journal, new issues, new articles… • Readers’ feedback • Most popular journals, issues, articles… • Best rankedjournals, article…

  26. Searching and browsing • improved searching possibilities, advanced search with more focused search strategies, stemming • improved browsing possibilities, related papers according different criteria, facets • Implementationoftextanalysistools: • related papers according text similarities (abstract, references) • Detectingpossibleduplicates • Identifyinglanguage

  27. Could our demands influence publishing models? • Dynamical, multilayer, interactive, multimediacontent • „Machinereadable” articles • RDF, linkeddata • Researchdata • Differentformats (beyond PDF) • Authoridentification(ORCID?) • Publicationidentification (DOI? OpenURL?)

  28. What about metrics? • Existingflatindicators (STM) oftenmisused • „Wrapping” is more importantthenthecontent • impactfactor • SJR • SNIP • eigenfactor • h-index • article influence • numberofcitations • numberofpapers • ...

  29. Possiblemetrics for anarticle • total numberofcitations (GoogleScholar, Scopus, WoS…) – deduplicated • # visits • # downloads • # comments • # bookmarks at socialnetworks • expert’s rating... • # discussions (blogs) • # appearanceinothermedia (newspapers…) Peter Binfield

  30. Why do weneednational, regional, institutional….bibliographies, repositories, archives, databases…? • besideWoS, Scopus, Medlineand all otherpopulardatabases

  31. 2011 • NumberofjournalpaperswritterbyCroatianscientistsin Web ofScience4.434 • Numberofjournalpapersin CROSBI 29.581

  32. 1 WoS citation 674 downloads 1293 visits

  33. Thankyou for yourattention!  • J. Stojanovski – jadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr

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