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Bibliographic databases Towards a comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities

Bibliographic databases Towards a comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities. Gunnar Sivertsen Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research, and Education. Overview of this presentation. Publishing patterns in the SSH Publication types

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Bibliographic databases Towards a comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities

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  1. Bibliographic databasesTowards a comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities Gunnar Sivertsen Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research, and Education

  2. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  3. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research coucils

  4. Publication types in five major fields Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) Norwegian publications from 2005-2008

  5. Publication types in selectedhumanities

  6. Publication types in selectedsocialsciences

  7. Scholarly book series – wellestablished in manyfields

  8. Scholarly book series withelectronicdistribution

  9. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  10. Percentagepublications in non-ScandinavianlanguagesBibliographic database for Norwegian HE institutions

  11. Useof foreign language (in per cent) across all fields

  12. Useof foreign language (in per cent) across all fields Physics

  13. Useof foreign language (in per cent) across all fields Economics

  14. Useof foreign language (in per cent) across all fields Germanlanguage and literature Englishlanguage and literature

  15. Useof foreign language (in per cent) across all fields Germanlanguage and literature Englishlanguage and literature Philosophy Media and Communication History

  16. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  17. Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

  18. Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

  19. Percentage of references in leading journals that cite other journal articles and articles indexed in ISI

  20. Explanations? • SSH publications also cite or may be cited by: • scholarly publications in books • old scholarly publications • reports and official documents • other non-scholarly publications • Their reference lists may also have references to: • the textual material that is studied, e.g. religious or fictious texts • non-textual material, e.g. exhibitions or artistic works

  21. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  22. Coverage of all scientific publications in Norway’s HE sectorBased on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

  23. Web of Science coverage in selectedsocialsciences Based on 33.000 (fractionalized) publications from 2005-2008

  24. Two Swedish journals in literature: Moderna Språk is indexed by ISI, butTidskrift förLitteraturvetenskapis not

  25. Sociologisk Forskning is indexed by ISI, butStatsvetenskaplig tidsskrift is not

  26. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  27. Is the world ofscholarlyliteraturesunlimited? Bradford’slawofscattering plusthelimitationsofthecommercial market Other scolarly journals The ”core journals” Allthescholarlyliteratures

  28. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  29. Definition A scientific or scholarlypublication must: present newinsight in a form that allows the research findings to be verified and/or used in new research activity in a language and with a distributionthat makes thepublicationaccessible for a relevant audience in a publicationchannelwith peer review*) *) In addition: Publicationchannelswithauthorscomingmainly from onlyoneinstitutionare not included. Delimitationofpublication data by definition

  30. Three mainpublication types 1) Article in ISSN-title 2) Article in ISBN-title 3) ISBN-title Channel E.g. scientificarticle in Natureor scholarlyISBN-title on Oxford University Press. Type

  31. Dynamicrecordsofscientific and scholarlyISSN-titles og ISBN-publishers 18,000 ISSN-titlesand 1,000 book publishers so far

  32. All channelscan be searched, and newchannelscan be suggested

  33. Coverage of Norwegian journal articles in WoS or ScopusBased on scholarly ISSN publications from Norway’s HE sector 2005-2008

  34. Publications in Media and Communication 2005-2008from theNorwegianHigher Education Sector

  35. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  36. Indexing all articles in a large selectionof journals in Spanish and Portuguese

  37. Indexing all scientific and scholarly journals in Croatia

  38. Indexing all scholarly journals in Norwegian

  39. All types ofpublicationsaresearchable – in economics

  40. ECONIS has standardizednamesofauthors, institutions, and publicationchannels

  41. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  42. Publicatons in ”annualreports” aresearchable in a structured database

  43. In Norway: One shared national database for all universities. Imported references from bibliographic data sources are validated by researchers or their assistants. Missing references are added. Books From ISI From Norart

  44. VABB-SHW

  45. Institutional research profiles in three different universities (based on publication points 2005-2008)

  46. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

  47. A newbibliometric database? • Among several recommendations: • National documentation systems in combination with commercial data sources • Define international standards for national documentation systems • Negotiate expansions and/or a new database with the suppliers of Web of Science and/or Scopus

  48. The ERIH lists

  49. Overview of this presentation • Publishing patterns in the SSH • Publication types • Language and internationalization • Citations • Data sources for bibliometrics in the SSH • Coverage in Web of Science and Scopus • “The core journals” and the other literatures • Defining scholarly literature • The library information systems • Institutional or national databases • Towards integrated data sources in the SSH • Need for a new database? • The role of collaborating research councils

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