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NEREUS A network of leading libraries collaborate on NEEO Network of European Economists Online

NEREUS A network of leading libraries collaborate on NEEO Network of European Economists Online. Researchers support for NEEO. “ This EU funding and the widespread collaboration on NEEO are exactly what will make this a success, and, more important,

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NEREUS A network of leading libraries collaborate on NEEO Network of European Economists Online

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  1. NEREUSA network of leading libraries collaborate on NEEO Network of European Economists Online

  2. Researchers support for NEEO “This EU funding and the widespread collaboration on NEEO are exactly what will make this a success, and, more important, critically allow the world greater and readier access to best research.” Danny Quah, Prof. of Economics and Head of Dept

  3. A library network: 20_10

  4. We are • A network of libraries and institutions serving a specific subject community • Institutions with high-rankings in economics • Serving our economists by: • increasing visibility of excellent research & • bringing new content online • building added value services • utilising and linking key DL resource capacities • Serving the network by: • Focussing on cost-efficiency and innovation • Maximising on knowledge-exchange structures

  5. NEEO Network of European Economists Online SEE and BE SEEN co-funded by the European Union, and Nereus

  6. Some facts • Duration: 30 months • 1 September 2007 – 1 March 2010 • eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media • Lead partner: Tilburg University • 16 universities and research institutions, 20 is the goal • 8 countries: BE, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IE, NL, UK • Building on Economists Online - retaining the branding The project is co-funded by the European Union, through the eContentplus programme http://ec.europa.eu/econtentplus.

  7. Building on EO EO NEEO Partners 6 20 References 7k 50k Full texts 3k 20k Harvesting IRs 6 20 & EU/world Content type Pubs. Pubs. & data Services 2 7 Access English EN, FR, DE & ES

  8. EContentPlus work programme 2006: 5.1 To improve the interoperability of digital cultural and scientific/scholarly content held by libraries, museums and archives and enable multilingual access to it, so as to enhance the crossborder visibility, accessibility, use and re-use of European cultural and scientific/scholarly resources.

  9. Key Objective To improve the global visibility, usability, and management of European economics research Providing various users easy and open access to high-quality multilingual academic output of leading European economics institutes and their researchers Via a reliable and sustainable portal with aggregated and enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services Showcasing the work of at least 500 leading scholars from 20 institutions

  10. Key envisaged results 1/2 Users • 500 authors collaborate • User surveys (3): content and service specs & evaluation • IPR advocacy information material • Download statistics Content & dissemination • Content provided by 20 partners (datasets and publications) • Publications – bib. references: 50,000 & full text: 20,000 • Data – issue report, data repositories and 160 datasets • Key data and service providers identified; push and pull activities

  11. Key envisaged results 2/2 The NEEO portal • SOA architecture and NEEO technical guidelines • Basic portal exists with content from 6 partners - Aug 2008 • Multilingual portal with content from all 16 partners and advanced services in situ – Aug 2009 • Services include: publication lists, portal, full text searching, metadata enrichment (JEL & ref. lists), automised metadata translation, usage statistics, RSS feeds, etc. The future • Sustainability and business plan

  12. NEEO : a stimulus for institutions to • Establish repositories • Populate repositories • Encourage other faculties to collaborate in local IR deposit • Marry local interests with international developments • Keep up with international developments • Keep up with peers

  13. NEEO features • Providing new integrated access to leading European economics research • Providing comprehensive research output with authors • Stimulating open access deposit among researchers • Stimulating the creation of and population of repositories • Collaborating on providing IPR support across 8 countries • Enhancing multi-lingual access to economics content

  14. NEEO data model • Decentral deposit • Central harvest and service provision • Decentral institutional deposit • Ownership and stewardship • Sustainability better guaranteed by the organisation: • Investment in info and knowledge assets • Infrasructure: Library, IT, info man. and faculty support • The author is the focus! Not a specific funder or publisher

  15. DRIVER • Part of a world-wide interdisciplinary knowledge-base • DRIVER repository guidelines • Use sets to define collections • High-quality, i.e. granular metadata and MODS • Need to look at further specifications. But first ….. • NEEO milestone - August 2008 • Learning about DRIVER tools

  16. For more information Project Manager: Vanessa Proudman v.m.proudman@uvt.nl NEREUS: http://www.nereus4economics.info NEEO: http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo

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