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Maximizing the benefit of research information in Particle Physics *** A user-driven story

Maximizing the benefit of research information in Particle Physics *** A user-driven story. Anne Gentil-Beccot, CERN. EuroCris. 11 May 2010. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook.

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  1. Maximizing the benefit of research information in Particle Physics***A user-driven story Anne Gentil-Beccot, CERN. EuroCris. 11 May 2010

  2. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook

  3. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook

  4. ~15’000 High Energy Physics (HEP) scientists smash stuff at the speed of light to produce new stuff

  5. ~15’000 HEP theorists scratch their heads to make sense of all that stuff and then some more

  6. The HEP “preprint culture” L.Goldschmidt-Clermont, 1965, http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000445/02/communication_patterns.pdf Scientific journals of ‘60s too slow for HEP Mass-mail preprints to institutes worldwide Ante litteram (institute-pays) Open Access Leading libraries “serve” preprints CERN Library, circa 1960

  7. SPIRES: first electronic catalogue http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/papers/history.html http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/interlab99/program/kunz/EarlyWeb.frame.pdf • SLAC Library,1974: now 750’000 records • With Fermilab (US) and DESY (DE) Libraries • Electronic catalogue of preprints metadata • Updated with publication reference • Terminal, e-mail interface, 1st WWW in U.S. Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 17:55:53 GMT+0100 From: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Subject: WWW to SPIRES on SLACVM - Experimental To: www-interest@cernvax.cern.ch, www-talk@cernvax.cern.ch There is an experimental W3 server for the SPIRES High energy Physics preprint database, thanks to Terry Hung, Paul Kunz and Louise Addis of SLAC. It's only just been put up, so don't expect perfection. With the w3 line mode browser, follow a link to it from our home page, - Tim Paul Kunz wrote a few days ago:- "The SLAC Library maintainer of SPIRES databases, Louise Addis, is absolutely delighted. She will ask for a permanent VM service machine and finish off the polishing. Things are really moving now.”

  8. arXiv.org the archetypal repository http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/Colloquium/presentations/090506Ginsparg.pdf • P. Ginsparg, LANL, 1991. Now Cornell Library • No mandate, no debate, author-driven • 1/2 Million preprints. Growing beyond HEP • Post-prints often resubmitted

  9. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook

  10. Advantages? - Visibility - Acceleration - Impact

  11. Advantages? - Visibility - Acceleration - Impact

  12. Ten years in the life of a HEP article • SPIRES counts: citations to/from preprints/articles • Citation peak before publications • Scientific discourse proceeds on discipline repository

  13. Advantages? - Visibility - Acceleration - Impact

  14. Citation augmentation • Discipline repository yields immense advantage • Five times more citations for articles in arXiv • 20% of 2-year citations occur before publication

  15. Advantages? - Visibility - Acceleration - Impact

  16. Where do HEP scientists look for info? Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv:0804.2701 • Survey of 2’000+ scientists (10% of community) • OA tools answer scientists’ information needs • Google as proxy of arXiv, SPIRES, publishers

  17. Do HEP scientists read journals ? Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv:0906.5418 ∼30,000 clicks (choice between arXiv and journal) Publisher server 18% arXiv 82% (As many scientists as analyzed here go straight to arXiv)

  18. What more do users want ? Depth of coverage Access to full text Quality of content Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv:0804.2701 Not important Very important

  19. New needs ? Centralization Conference slides Access data Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv:0804.2701 Not important Very important Web 2.0

  20. HEP and open access Advantages? INSPIRE Outlook

  21. COAR OpenAIRE D4 Science II • - Depth of coverage • - High quality of metadata • High acceptance • by the community • - Stable and fast technology • Open Source (GPL) community • Based on open standards • (MARCXML, OAI-PMH, etc)

  22. INSPIRE http://www.projecthepinspire.net/ • Full-text search. Speed. • Citations, co-citations • AuthorID. Affiliations. Coauthors • Extractions of references • Integration of high level research data, tables and graphs • Bi-directional feeds with arXiv and publishers • User generated tags, folksonomy meet ontology • …

  23. Conclusions and Outlook HEP community has embraced Grey literature and repositories since decades Triggering infrastructures for metadata and communication Next HEP information system generation: INSPIRE Single access point to all HEP literature and data Integrated in the whole scientific world Try it: http://inspirebeta.net

  24. Thank you! Anne.Gentil-Beccot@cern.ch

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