accessibility of publications for the global research community
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David Onyango-CABI
2015 ORCID Kenya Workshop, 23rd July 2015
Accessibility of Publications for the Global Research Community
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● Not-for-profit intergovernmental organisation established in 1910 by a UN treaty
● Provides scientific expertise and information about agriculture and the environment
● Expertise in: scientific publishing and international development
● Owned by 48 member countries ● 400 staff worldwide in 21 locations ● Annual turn-over £28m (2013) ● Compliant with requirements for Joint
Management of strategic EC programmes, following successful 4-pillar audit in 2011
CABI in Brief
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Key messages Content
International coverage – ● leading global journals from +100 countries
(50 languages) Unique content – ● CABI commissioned and non-proprietary full-text
Non-serial content – ● Conferences, annual reports, theses & bulletins
Weekly updates – ● Regular content updates
CABI Publishing Resources Content
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CABI’s A&I databases What is an Abstracting & Indexing database? An A&I database contains: ● Bibliographic records ● Metadata indexes to aid retrieval
The value of A&I ● Time saving tool ● Reliable peer-reviewed sources ● Links to full-text for extensive reference
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46 abstracts journals (+ non-proprietary FT)
CABI products range
CAB Abstracts Global Health
Full text products Internet
resources Compendium
Non-serial content
eBooks Datasheets News articles Events
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CABI Scientific Outputs & Communication Project
● CABI scientists publish some 100 articles in peer reviewed journals each year, and are monitored on their outputs and impact
● A new CABI website provides a searchable database of all CABI output including non peer-reviewed publications and, where feasible, the full text itself
● Part of a pilot project started last year to capture CABI Scientific
content and to improve how we communicate its existence and generally increase its exposure via the Internet
● In the project we are also looking at methods for tracking the usage of this content across the Internet, in order to better enable CABI to demonstrate impact
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New Altmetrics tools
● Part of the project is a Pilot with Plum Analytics www.plumanalytics.com to add the “Plum Widget” to our new website
● Plum measures Internet “data exhaust” including views and downloads we well as social media usage such a likes, shares, tweets, blog posts, review and citations, to capture a complete picture of internet usage
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Metrics which are captured
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Plum measures sources of usage information, so called “data exhaust”
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Improving how we communicate externally about our content (initial stages of development…)
● We will shortly be starting a pilot project with Kudos (www.growkudos.com) which is complementary to our activities with Plum
● Kudos is a web-based resource which is free to authors which aims to helps researchers, institutions, and publishers to expand exposure to their published content through social media and other techniques
● Provides a platform for authors to create information (such as lay summaries or related multimedia) that helps readers filter the growing quantity of published research;
● To then easily share this information , via social media or email, to increase discoverability.
● Early results indicated that using Kudos tools to explain and share research can increase usage by 19%.
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Identifiers
● Using the correct identifiers is critical to being able to correctly capture the appropriate content and for matching it to the right author
● The two altmetrics tools we are working with use several identifiers to do this, the key ones being
● ORCID ● DOI ● URL
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Using these tools…. CABI are looking to eventually build a showcase across all our staff and their scientific contributions similar to this..
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xie-xie zikomo
thank you urakoze terima kasih ke itumetse
dhanyawaad
merci efharistó Assalamualikum
tak kiitos
शुक्रिया
ありがとう gracias zikomo
danke
thank you
David Onyango, CABI Africa [email protected] Cristina Ashby, CABI