eResources in the Spanish Academic Libraries

Isidro F. AguilloCybermetrics Lab. CINDOC-CSIC

Biblioteca de AndalucíaGranada, March 8th, 2007

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Independent review A biased overview:

An external referee Not librarian, but information specialist Researcher point of view Open access evangelist Quantitative oriented

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Everything you need to know…

"Where is the Life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T.S. Eliott, in Choruses from The Rock (1934)

Olivier Ertzscheid, 2006

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.. Did you mean Internet?Public Web Private

Web

Databases

Repositories

E-Journals

Visible Web

Invisible Internet

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Role of the Spanish librarians

Visible Web Increasing the presence of Spanish academic

web resources Invisible Web

New local resources Integration of local and external resources

Private Web Larger collections and better access

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¿The new library?

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Visible Web No local web search services

Even small specialized directories vanished Monopoly of search market

More than 90% of web searching in Spain uses Google (Yahoo, Live(MSN) and others contribution is neglible)

Spanish contents in the academic Web World: 2.5% (Spanish) vs. 80.1% (English) Spanish speaking countries: 83,5% (Sp)/ 10,6% (En)

But … Google agreements with Universidad Complutense and

Biblioteca de Cataluña

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Researchers attitude Quality issues

Lack of confidence on Web contents Proof: Limited self-archiving

Access issues No searching filtering by rich format files Google Scholar = Google by other name? Live Academic, what? Scirus, Scopus need more marketing effort

Web data Hooray for Web Citation Index

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Really huge and representative …?

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Google Scholar

Papers hosted in University domains

(January 2007)

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Invisible Web: Databases The new cataloguing: Metadata

DCMI (Dublin Core) is a real failure No other serious attempt

No new catalogs, but new databases Few annotated web record services Bibliographies not webliographies

Repositories not directories Combining existing resources

Plus some digitalization Major innovation: Hypertext (SFX,…)

Link to full text (internal or external)

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Invisible Web: Repositories

Institutional Few initiatives. Most signatories of the Berlin

Declaration have not Open Access mandates Thesis/dissertations: Copyright issue overcome?

Thematic Only international have succeeded: Arxiv, E-LIS

Personal (self-archiving) Extended CVs

Mostly young new members of research groups Acrobat (pdf) format, almost no Powerpoint (ppt)

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Open digital collections at UCM

E-Prints ComplutenseE-Prints Complutense • 3.592 dissertations• 188 papers • 100 books chapters• 52 conference proceedings• 14 books

Portal UCM journalsPortal UCM journals• 21.600 papers in 62 collections

DioscóridesDioscórides• 2.650 books• 40.000 engravings

OAI-PMH

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e-ciencia

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Rich files in academic personal pages

Self-archiving, Yahoo! Search (March’07)

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Invisible Web: e-Journals

Few local “native” electronic journals Disregarded by researchers

Increasing interest in transferring to electronic version Institutional mandate is working, but mainly

because of technical support Technical support also explained (limited)

success of portals of journals Librarians lead, standards and protocols applied

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Limited number of e-journals

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Limited number of e-journals

www.um.es/biblioteca/openaccess.html

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Private Web Major milestones

Consortia, Regional Consortia REBIUN, Madroño, CBUC And a few thematic ones (Medicine, Mathematics, Scielo España)

Integration of local and external resources Metalib, SFX DOI, OpenURL

Web of Knowledge national license National e-journal collections license due 2008

Collective catalogs Main task of consortia: Sharing local resources ILL: SOD (national development)

Web preservation initiatives Catalonia Internet (PADICAT) Google digitalization agreements

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E-resources acquisition by consortia Justification

Incomplete global coverage Increased costs of both journals and ILL Many small collections

Advantages of electronic access Positive measures

Third parties funding Easier bureaucracy

Central TIC support and management Barriers

Difficult license negotiations

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Librarians point of view: Advantages Access to larger collections welcomed

Especially from small libraries Management issues primary concern

Overlap, access, integration Pay per view (download), not for collection

Although real costs not well understood Future National license

80 million Euro/year Scheduled for 2008

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Librarians point of view: Disadvantages Closed packages

No easy access to journals published by scholarly societies

Rights Different wording in the contracts Back-up files

Collection development Access to previous years

Costs US standards??

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An interesting example Web of Knowledge

National license 24 million Euros for (4?-5?) years Funded by FECYT (Spanish government)

Granted access to 800 public and private research related organizations

400 concurrent users (never reached that limit) Cheered for both librarians and researchers But only used for (self-) evaluation purposes

Now, what about SCOPUS?

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End users point of view

Still a not-so-small group of scholars and researchers use mainly print journals

A new paradigm for the rest: Searching not browsing Obscure papers more frequently used Larger offer?? Concern regarding access to restricted distribution

journals Unknown individual paper cost Super-user

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Supporting new publishing ways Repositories and e-journals

Self-publishing: Biomed Central

Social “bookmarking” RefWorks in Madroño, del.icio.us

Multimedia ADSL (7 million lines in Spain) greatly increases broadband MySpace, YouTube, Flickr

Library 2.0 Social tagging = uncontrolled metadata Wiki new editorship Syndication

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Conclusions and recommendations Expanded role of the librarian

Choosing collections Integrating local and external resources New editorship (Library 2.0)

The success of consortium Technicians not politicians

Better negotiation Involving professional librarians Reserve local funds for restricted circulation

collections More funds to local initiatives (Web 2.0)

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For more information

isidro@cindoc.csic.es

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