V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 The plan WhoThe Project Manager Goal and corresponding tasks today Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service.

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009

The plan

Who The Project Manager

Goal and corresponding tasks today

• Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service in development; highlighting the portal, technical aspects and the dataset pilot

• Decentralised subject repository

• Managed by consortium of leading libraries

• A possible model of interest for other

Duration 25 - 30mins + time for questions


“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

Co-funded by the European Union


Key objectives

To improve the usability and global visibility of economics research

Providing easier and open access to high-quality multilingual academic output of leading economics institutes and their researchers

Via a sustainable portal with aggregated and enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services


Background

• 18 partners, including Columbia Univeristy, + (16 EU-funded, including the LSE, universities of Oxford, Tilburg, Toulouse, Leuven, Warwick, and UCL)

• Finance: almost € 2m = +/- $ 2,7m • eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media, European

Commission• Nereus: Consortium of 23 academic institutions and their

libraries with strengths in economics

• Duration: 30 months Sept. 2007 – March 2010


Some stats

• 890> authors participating• Over 2,300 researchers at NEEO institutions in 2007• 350 publication lists

• 41,108 metadata records• 16,868 full text records• 2,583 current content• Publishing over 4,000 docs in 2007

• Currently 6 partners online & RePEc• Economists Online gateway, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2,

version 1.3. Public launch 28 January 2010


Accessibility

• RePEC services– IDEAS (4)– Econpapers (100)– RePEC author service (22)

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (10)• Econbiz (1)• Google Scholar (294)• Google (185,000) • Author web page (0)

• Economists Online 123


Improving access to full text

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RePEc IDEAS RePEcEconpapers

SSRN Google GoogleScholar

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Key results

• User requirement studies– Defining and confirming content acquisition and service

specs. e.g. books & chapters, datasets and DB, aim – Quality content, scope, would contribute, visibility+, 73% rec

• Advocacy support: awareness and dissemination plan, IPR report, PR

• Report on the data repository and data issues report• Business and sustainability plan• Workshops and lessons learnt• Long-term preservation• Economists Online portal





Points of interest to OR09

1. Technical aspects

2. Enhanced publications: Data


Technical aspects

1. OAI-PMH exchange of DIDL-MODS formatted metadata

2. OAI-PMH exchange of usage metadata

3. Full-text searching

4. Automated publication lists per author

5. Automated enrichment of metadata

6. Integration with RePEc: push and pull

7. Multilingual searching


Enhanced publications: data

• Access to the primary research datasets (and supplementary materials) that underpin economics publications

• Exploring the issues that hinder OA availability of research data, e.g. privacy, IPR, DB rights

• One of the only concerted European efforts in the social sciences that systematically links primary research datasets to publications


Enhanced publications: data

• Pilot with 10 datasets per partner • Using DDI standard and Dataverse• NEEO accredits all contributors to the data life cycle, that

is, dataset owners, data sources, data providers/distributors (capturing data provenance info)

• Case study for researchers• Spin-offs

– Emergence of institutional departmental policies for archiving, sharing and improving access to research data

– Introduces the development of new skills and professions for the library community: The Data Librarian


Is this a model of interest to othersbuilding subject repository services?


Final conference

• Theme: The future of subject repositories– Geographic overviews: US, Australia and Europe– Workshops on interoperability, datasets, IPR, content

recruitment, multilingual systems and usage statistics

• 28-29 January 2010, British Library, London

• Programme to be published shortly

• Interested in attending? Please mail

[email protected]


A model for other subject repositories?• A strong consortium of institutions with a member base• With high-level support from the subject community• Where the institution’s rank and quality content is key• Making concrete efforts to provide new content OA• Showcasing and disseminating work worldwide• Data ownership and management is at & with the organization• A central md store and portal, where added value services are

developed and tested collaboratively• Knowledge exchange activities increase efficiency and inspire• A sustainable model that can be built upon in the future


Are you interested in joining us?

[email protected]


Acknowledgements

http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/2067107554/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486219204/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/polanri/2397613433/

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 The plan WhoThe Project Manager Goal and corresponding tasks today Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service.

Documents

neeo institutions

open access

repec author service

readier access

academic institutions

best research

service specs

data repository