The university library as a support for the institutional research identity

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The university library as a support for the institutional research identity

Pelayo García-Fernández

Mª Luisa Álvarez-de-Toledo

2013, 17-19 juneNanchang, Jiangxi Province

University of Oviedo. Central Library

The university library as a support for the institutional research identity – Table of Contents

The university library as a support for the institutional research identity.

1) The Spaniard universities.2) The University of Oviedo and its regional

scope.3) The University of Oviedo on Scopus.4) Changes at the university library.5) Changes in the transmission of

knowledge.6) What are doing the librarians.7) Scientific globalisation.8) Scientific globalisation and identity.9) Identity and web visibility 1.10) Identity and web visibility 2 .11) Researchers and authors. Who are they?12) Identity means precision.13) Identity accuracy can enhance

researchers’ analysis.14) Identities, profiles and the Shanghai

Ranking.15) An important task: reviewing the

profiles.

16) Scientific production – Identities.17) An example: from Scopus to Repository.18) Identifiying by data. Semantic web.19) Metadata 1.20) Metadata 2.21) Identifiying and linking scientific data.22) Researching identity and search engines. SEO.23) Open Access: it helps spreading science.24) ORCID 1.25) ORCID 2.26) The library task about “scientific identities”.27) Spreading researchers identities: blogs.28) Spreading researchers identities: Facebook.29) Spreading researchers identities: Twitter.30) Identity = Visibility.

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The Spaniard universities.

They are mainly old, traditional institutions; very different from American universities.

Financed by public funds.

Massive universities. Not specialized.

They don´t have enoughbusiness links.


University of Oviedo. Regional Scope.

Decentralisation: 7 campus in 3 different towns.

25.000 students. 2.000 teachers.

Principality of Asturias 1 M. Inhabitants. Surface: 10,604 km²

Decentralisation: 14 library centres with a central coordination.


The University of Oviedo at Scopus.


The University Library has changed over time, but not its aims.

• From paper to electronic information. Rules and systems to communicate information.

• Librarians have always worked with data. Now data simply come from other sources.

• Librarians have always worked producing standarised information. Now we just have to implement new standards.

• Librarians have always worked organizing information for our community. Now we simply arrange the information on a global network.


The ways of transmitting knowledge have changed worldwide.

Siku Quanshu

Complete Library of the Four Treasuries


What are the librarians doing?

Libraries need people with expertise and learning ability.

Updating and permanently training ourselves to work with new databases, standards, tools 2.0, semantic web, scientific SEO…

Team work. Cooperation with other services. Participation online.

Helping students, faculty staff and researchers.

Helping the Research Office.

Promoting and spreading scientific papers.

Promoting our researchers.

We need to work about these aims on the web, in order to obtain global knowledge about our university.


Scientific globalization.

Which indicators can help researchers with their national evaluations?

Librarians help to know all this.

Who are the best researchers and where are they publishing? Impact factor, SJR, H-index.

Many people find the knowledge through international databases: Scopus, Science

Direct, WOS.

From national and local publications on paper to the need of publishing in international

electronic journals with global spread.

What are the best institutions and where are they publishing? Impact factor, SJR, H-index. Rankings.

Important questions


Scientific globalisation and scientific identity.

Nowadays, our researchers are having problems to look for their identity on the net: “Who am I?”

Our researchers need help with their profiles: “What are my codes?”

The researcher's identity on databases is made through profiles and IDs.

Some important librarian roles are:Elaborating analysis and reports about the identification of authors and institutions, solving problems, proposing solutions and making signing rules for the academic staff.

From national identity to global identity.


Online visibility of our identity 1.

Example: an author profile on Scopus.


Online visibility of our identity 2.

Example: an institution profile on Academic Search.

Another important librarian task is to write institutional reports so they can be consulted by departments, research groups and independent researchers with their scientific production data.


Researchers and scientific authors. Who are they?

How is an author linked when their name is not clear enough. Examples:

That is why researches aren't often able to find their scientific papers and their profiles.

How does a scientific author's name appear on databases?

Perhaps their name is not clear enough.

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Identity means precision.

We must identify and review author and institutions:• Precisely and periodically.

• On a regular basis.

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Identity precision allows analysis improvement.

Scival analysis tools and Scopus profiles : Scival Strata and Scival Spotlight are sometimes based on the researches or institutions profiles.

Ex: Scival Spotlight. Rankings - Competencies.Institutions.

Ex: Scival Strata. Comparative analysis. Researchers.


Identity, profiles and Shanghai Ranking.

Essential scientific indicators. Highly cited researchers

1) Creating Researcher IDs at Thomson Reuters for our highly

cited authors.

2) Searching and attributing their publications on WOS.

What we must do from the Library:


An important task: reviewing profiles.

Why Scopus in the first place? It is the most widely used and known database.

We are performing some sessions about digital identity for the research staff.

We are writing some recommendations about signing and affiliations.


Scientific production is important for identity.

All the Spaniard universities must write, on a yearly basis, an official report about their researching activities. To carry it out, the input data about research papers is necessary.

As visibility online is a very important matter, we have decided to load all the data on our Institutional Repository, an open standard electronic online archive.

Reseach Report

The LibrarySearch for

Data

Institutional

Repository

ResearchersReviewing

Adding

Institutional

Repository


An example: from Scopus to Repository.

1. Collect publications with an "institutional affiliation" (University of Oviedo)

on bibliographic databases. Not only on Scopus, but also on the Science

Web, Medline, IEEE, Wiley and Spaniard databases.

2. Import Bulk Data of publications, including DOI.

3. Store, review, delete any duplicate and standardise all kind of data: Titles of

journals, authors, years, etc.

4. Convert data into metadata for DSpace Repository.

5. Uploade these data to Repository by an automatic process.

6. Standardise names, titles of journals and other data.

Process


Identifying with data. Semantic web.

Metadata for Institutional Repository: Dublin Core Metadata; RDFAuthors' metadata: It is essential that authors are perfectly identified.

The role of libraries: Elaborating and creating metadata.

Current trend: Open and linked data.

Linking authors' identifications on ScopusID to other identifications:ORCID; Researcher ID; VIAF.

VIAF Virtual International Authorities File

http://viaf.org/


The result of metadata 1.


Publications titles Authors‘ namesDates


The result of metadata 2.


Link to original papers by DOI


Identifying and linking scientific documents online.

The importance of linking original published documents.

Not all the articles will be available to be read with their full content online for free.

The importance of DOI for unidentified documents.

Precisely linked authors and documents. Authors codes.

But, at least, authors and publications data will be displayed online in an open and standardized way.


The researching identity oriented to the results of search engines.

Institutions also need an identity.

It is necessary to have a personal identity for each researcher.

It is necessary to spread and promote it online.

This identity requires being reviewed, standardized and linked.

The institutional identity influences the authors identity, and viceversa.

Authors and institutions and departments are linked online. Identity belongs to the team and to each member of that team


Open Access helps spread researcher identity.

Open Access facilitates online visibility

Open Access is currently used in a large amount of scientific journals.

The Open Access changes the way of financing the journals.

http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-options

Institutions shall promote andfinance Open Access.

The University library is constantly working and informing about all

the issues related to Open Access.


Identity, profiles and ORCID 1.

• ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.

• ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and in its cooperation with other identifier systems.

• ORCID works with the research community to identify opportunities for integrating ORCID identifiers in key workflows, such as research profile maintenance, manuscript submissions, grant applications, and patent applications.

Distinguishing your research activities from those of others with similar name


Identity, profiles and ORCID 2.

• The University of Oviedo is an institutional member of ORCID+ Early Adopter.• We make the ORCID for our academic researchers by an institutional way.• Bulk loading data, for which it was necessary an API; our API for ORCID is made by GrandIR.


Library works about identities.

In project: Linking with curriculum vitae.

Reviewing Scopus profiles

Early adopter ORCID. Making ORCIDs for its

researchers

Making and reviewing Researcher IDs

(Thomson –Reuters)

Linking IDs with ORCID Linking with the

Institutional Repository

Library


Spreading the research identity: blogs.

Examples from the blog, the library and the research identity.

Diffusion of authors, works and images.

Detailed explanations and incorporation of audiovisuals.

Tags, links, descriptions.


Spreading the research identity: Facebook

The library keeps in touch with other spreading channels. It is just another way of promotion, in addition to the official one.

Facebook spreads the information better than a blog.


Spreading the research identity: Twitter.

Brief notes about the researcher’s activity in our university.

Links to the researchers works online.

This resource is currently

spreading quickly


Identity = Visibility.

The university library has this goal.

Sharing, 2.0. SEOSemantic Web

Spreading university research

Having the profiles control

Collecting research works

Institutionalidentity

The university library as a support for the institutional research identity – THE END

The university library as a support for the institutional research identity.

Pelayo García-Fernández

Mª-Luisa Álvarez-de-Toledo

2013, 17-19 junioNanchang, Jiangxi Province

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