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Supplementing the Library Collection with Digital Content from Engineering Departments

Supplementing the Library Collection with Digital Content from Engineering Departments. Karen Clay Stanford University. Questions. What information is being produced in the SoE labs? (What types of publications? Digital-only or digital with online equivalent?)

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Supplementing the Library Collection with Digital Content from Engineering Departments

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  1. Supplementing the Library Collection with Digital Content from Engineering Departments Karen Clay Stanford University

  2. Questions • What information is being produced in the SoE labs? (What types of publications? Digital-only or digital with online equivalent?) • How accessible is this information? (Is it in the Library? At a stable URL?)

  3. Methods • Hired Engineering Graduate students to discover and input the information found • Discovery methods: - browsing the lab web sites - google search of engineering web space for .pdf files - asking the labs for an inventory of their output

  4. Refworks database • Bibliographic information • Document type • Document format • Document size • URL • Availability in Library

  5. Assessment of the data • Grey Literature predominates, but its primarily “standard” grey literature, not digital-only items • Many URLs are not stable (at least 1% of URLs had changed or disappeared after only 5 months).

  6. Grey Literature Predominates

  7. Most of the online documents DO have a print equivalent

  8. Many Documents are Not in the Library

  9. Documents not in the Library

  10. Collections Assessment What materials are we missing in the library?

  11. Journals/Books not in the Library

  12. Journals/Books not in the Library • Missing articles from 12 journal titles and 3 book titles • No journal titles had more than one missing article • 2/3 of the missing materials are in the Biomedical Engineering field

  13. Dissertations not in the Library

  14. Dissertations not in the Library • Missing 3 non-Stanford dissertations; and 3 Master’s theses

  15. Conference Proceedings & Technical Reports

  16. Conference Proceedings • Many of the missing conference proceedings were cited repeatedly on the web pages • Some of the more commonly cited missing conference proceedings are local, small-scale conferences (for example the Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program)

  17. Conference Proceedings & Technical Reports

  18. Technical Reports • Although we are missing about 40% of the technical reports in the database, these technical reports are produced by 14 of the 66 Labs or Centers. (only about 1/5).

  19. Conclusions • There is a lot of locally produced, relevant grey literature on the web which is missing from the library. • Most of this literature is still produced in “traditional” formats – formats which have a print-based equivalent • This literature is currently scattered, difficult to search, and the URLs are not stable (it should be in the library!).

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