Synergies , OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal

1. Synergies, OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal http://www.synergiescanada.org Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynn Copeland, and Rea Devakos ElPub 2008

2. I. SynergiesMichael Eberle-SinatraUniversité de Montréal

5. Synergies Partners

6. Affiliated Universities • University of British Columbia • University of Guelph • University of Saskatchewan • University of Victoria • University of Winnipeg • Windsor University • York University • Acadia University • Athabasca University • Dalhousie University • Memorial University • Mount Saint Vincent University • St. Francis Xavier University • Université du Québec à Montréal • Université du Québec en Outaouais • Université Laval

7. II. OJS in the Synergies ContextLynn CopelandSimon Fraser University Library

8. Ithaka report – recommendation ‘Develop a shared electronic publishing infrastructure’

9. SFU Library & PKP • Partnership akin to Ithaka report • Lead: John Willinsky • SFU Library: development & host • SFU CCSP Press: publishing support

10. Development partners • Kopak, Chan UBC • Siemens et al UVIC •  Athabasca U • U of Toronto • UNB • U Montreal • SPARC • INASP, Oxford • IBICT, Brasilia • REDALYC, Mexico • FeSalud, España • JMIR • Multiliteracy Project • NCSI, IIS, Bengalooru

11. In conclusion: • Challenges too big to ‘go it alone’

12. III. Integration with Ontario’s Scholars PortalRea DevakosScholarly Communication Initiative

13. U of Guelph U of Toronto (lead) U of Windsor York U Running: OJS OCS Dspace The Partners: Ontario Synergies

14. The Partners: OCUL Scholars Portal • 20 universities • 382,000 FTE students, staff and faculty • resource sharing • collective purchasing • Scholars Portal • Service examples • Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure • RefWorks • 150,000 e-books; 120,000 plus OA

15. Objectives • To provide for the long term, secure archiving of resources to ensure continued availability; • To ensure rapid and reliable, response time for information services and resources; • To provide an environment that fosters additional innovation in response to the needs of users; • To create a network of intellectual resources by linking ideas, materials, documents and resources.

16. Local loading • 200 million citations from 200 A& I • 47% science • 29% multidisciplinary • 18% social science • 5% arts and humanities • 13 million full text journal articles from over 8,250 journals • 4.2 million articles downloaded in 2007 • Elsevier, Oxford, Taylor and Frances, Berkeley and the America Chemical Society etc.

17. Synergies content into Mark Logic • Builds indexes not only on words but context and hence can provide a richer search • stores XML documents,, in native format. • indexes individual works, XML elements and attributes, such as tables or illustrations • NIH DTD • New interface: • relevance-based searching • facet-based browsing • thesaurus expansion • Language-based stemming and collations • automatic-classification

20. Challenges and Opportunities • Xml and our journals • Subscription based journals • Scholars Portal as a “Trusted digital repository” • Beyond journals • Conference proceedings/ abstracts • Repository

21. Synergies, OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal http://www.synergiescanada.org Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynn Copeland, and Rea Devakos ElPub 2008