Maximising user experience with IOP Publishing

Yann AmourouxRegional Manager, IOP Publishingyann.amouroux@iop.org

Direct line: 0044 117 9301117

Agenda What defines the user experience? The IOPscience platform Discovery and delivery Reporting usage Licencing the content Other activities to maximise user

experience

What defines the user experience? Good quality content Easily searchable Discoverability Deliverability

The IOPscience platform An online service for journal content

published by IOP Publishing. Offers online access to all the journal

content hosted by IOP Publishing. more than 60 titles covering different areas

across scientific, technical, medical and engineering research.

more than 400,000 articles from 1874 to the present day.

Discovery and delivery We currently provide metadata to the

main discovery services: Summon (Serial Solutions) - full text

content indexed Primo Central (Exlibris) - full text content

indexed

Ebsco Discovery Service - in negotiation, expect IOP content to be indexed soon

Discovery & Delivery cont Shibboleth compliant IOP Publishing supports the Shibboleth authentication system.

This means that users from Shibboleth compliant institutions can sign in to IOPscience using their institutional ID and password and gain access, on or off campus, to their subscribed IOP Publishing content. We currently have an agreement to provide Shibboleth authentication to the following federations:

German Higher Education and Research RCTSaai Portuguese Federation Fédération Éducation-Recherche Servicio de Identidad de RedIRIS UK Access Management Federation

Access Inter Library Loan

send a paper copy of electronic original non-digitally (not email or fax)

Send a copy by secure transmission (Arial)

Course packs Permitted, but for authorized users only. Coursepacks, including electronic copies

must be deleted at the end of term.

Reporting usage We are Release 3 COUNTER compliant

Journal Report 1: Successful Full-Text Article Requests Journal Report 3: Successful Item Requests Journal Report 5: Number of Successful Full-Text Article

Requests by Year-of-Publication and Journal Consortium Report 1: Number of successful full-text journal

article or book chapter requests by month (only available in XML format)

Sushi We are SUSHI compliant, which is a standard protocol that can

be implemented within a library's electronic resource management (ERM) system to automate the usage statistics collection process.

Licencing our content Single title Pack IOPscience extra Consortia National licence

Other activities to maximise user experience Video Abstracts – New Journal of Physics

Launched 2 February 2011 Brand new content stream aimed

at enhancing user experience A ‘first’ for any physics journal Completely free-to-view

No additional charge for authors

Video Abstracts - Aims Increase the visibility of our authors and their work

> 5000 videos viewed within first two weeks Enable authors to go beyond the constraints of print to

present their work Enhance a user's understanding and appreciation of an

article through novel presentation Humanise the journal by including the researchers

behind the work

Video Abstracts – Author quotationsA video abstract can add value and visibility to our

work since it is a quick and entertaining way (with a lot of room for creativity) to get an idea of the motivation and content of the paper.

Oriol Romero-Isart, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany

By featuring the people behind the science, video abstracts have the potential to convey inspiration and enthusiasm, and thereby the significance of scientific results, beyond the concise text of articles.

Achim Kempf, Waterloo University, Canada