Visualizing Open Access - 2015 Code4Lib Northeast

Visualizing Open Accessbuilding a scalable infrastructure to

showcase the reach of MIT research

Background

Background

March 18, 2009 - Open Access Policy adopted“...The policy is to take effect immediately; it will be reviewed after five years by the Faculty Policy Committee, with a report presented to the Faculty.”

Background

March 18, 2009 - Open Access Policy adopted“...The policy is to take effect immediately; it will be reviewed after five years by the Faculty Policy Committee, with a report presented to the Faculty.”

2009 – 2013 MIT Libraries assemble a collection within Dspace@MIT for Open Access Articles.

~15,000 articles, ~ 1 million downloads

Background

~15,000 articles, ~ 1 million downloads, but…

Author-level information?Department-level information?

Background

March 18, 2009 - Open Access Policy adopted“[P]olicy … will be reviewed after five years…”

August 2013 - Project begins“Implement author-level, article-level, and aggregated article download usage statistics for articles in the Open Access Articles Collection in DSpace@MIT to incentivize deposits and provide useful assessment information for the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy.”

Prior Work

Prior Work

MyDASH provided solid model…• Map• Timeline• Summary table

Prior Work

MyDASH provided solid model…• Map• Timeline• Summary table

… but couldn’t be directly implemented.• Repository versus One Collection• Multiple department affiliations

Project Goals

• Make available download statistics at three levels: author, article, and aggregate

• Incentivize deposits to collection• Provide useful information for policy evaluation

• Evaluate new technologies within the Libraries (i.e. MongoDB)

Pipeline

Two-part project

Data processing pipelinehttps://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-backend

Visualization interfacehttps://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-ui

Pipeline

https://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-backend

• Apache logs• Python• DSpace• GeoIP• SOLR

Pipeline

Start from Apache server logs

● Filter the qualifying downloads● Look up the downloaded paper● Augment with additional information● Store in MongoDB● Use SOLR to build summary collection

UI queries summary collection

Pipeline

Pipeline challenges

Pipeline challenges - authors

Author identities● Field-specific naming conventions

o “Abelson, Hal”o “Abelson, H”o “Hal Abelson”

● Common names

Pipeline challenges - authors

[ { "mitid": “3.1415926537", "name": "Cohen-Tanugi, David" }, { "mitid": “2.7182818", "name": "Dave, Shreya H." }, { "mitid": “6.02x10^23", "name": "Grossman, Jeffrey C." }, { "mitid": “1123581322", "name": "Lienhard, John H." }, { "mitid": “1234567890", "name": "McGovern, Ronan Killian" }]

Pipeline challenges - authors

Pipeline challenges - departments

Department names● Inconsistent program / department affiliations

o “Media Laboratory”o “Center for Bits and Atoms”

● Spelling Variationso “MIT Department of Physics”o “Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics”o “Dept. of Physics”o “Physics”

Pipeline challenges - departments

Standardized department names

Whitelist of recognized names

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5449127895b0c25083f29352"), "status" : "200", "handle" : "http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52491", "title" : "A basal ganglia-forebrain circuit in the songbird biases motor output to avoid vocal errors", "country" : "USA", "authors" : [ { "mitid" : "3.1415926537", "name" : "Fee, Michale S." }, { "mitid" : "6.02x10^23", "name" : "Andalman, Aaron S." } ], "request" : "/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/52491", "referer" : "http://www.google.com/search?q=head+mounted+microphone+zebra+finch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a", "user_agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8", "time" : ISODate("2010-08-10T17:14:03Z"), "ip_address" : "128.218.64.242", "dlcs" : [ { "display" : "McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT", "canonical" : "McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT" }, { "display" : "Brain and Cognitive Sciences", "canonical" : "Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences" } ], "filesize" : "1661848"}

{ "_id" : "Overall", "countries" : [ { "country" : "862", "downloads" : 35 } … ], "dates" : [ { "date" : "2014-01-07", "downloads" : 3 } … ], "downloads" : 10000, "size" : 101, "type" : "overall"}

Web interface

Web interface

https://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-ui

● Mongo-backed● PHP● DataTables● D3.js● DataMaps

Web interface

Web interface

Web interface

Web interface

Web interface

Email to authors

Email to authorsDear {name}, Thank you for sharing your scholarly articles through the open repository DSpace@MIT <https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433/>, in association with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy <https://libraries.mit.edu/oapolicy>. Our newly implemented OA Stats Service provides data about the use and reach of our open access collection. Since August 2010, 15,184 articles have been downloaded from 227 different countries. This service also provides information at the author and article level: Your 3 articles have been downloaded 168 times since they were deposited, from 28 different countries. You can access more detailed download information about your articles, including per-article and per-country downloads at <https://oastats.mit.edu>. Initially, we plan to provide this information to all authors via email in the Fall and Spring semesters. As we seek to improve the service, we'll consider expanding options to interact with it and the underlying data. We are anxious to hear your feedback on how this service can be most useful to you, so please send your suggestions to [email protected]. --From the MIT Libraries

Email to authors

Email to authors

Faculty reception

Excitement● “Thank you for the update, this is a fantastic tool!!”● “Thanks so much for doing this - it's really cool and awesome!”

Why not more?● “Hi, I like your feedback. But I am puzzled that only one of my articles is in

your database.”● Department heads using this as leverage to encourage further

contributions

Project goals revisited

• Make available download statistics at three levels: author, article, and aggregate

• Incentivize deposits to collection• Provide useful information for policy evaluation

• Evaluate new technologies within the Libraries (i.e. MongoDB)

Future work

● Automate the pipeline● Run pipeline more frequently● Ditch Mongo for something relational● Talk to faculty about making more detailed information

public● Add functionality to UI (additional format exports, move

to SPA)● Improve cataloging in DSpace@MIT with lookup

services

Thanks!

Matt [email protected]@morphosis7

https://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-backend

https://github.com/MITLibraries/oastats-ui

http://oastats.mit.edu