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Providing Leadership in Deep Indexing

Helle Lauridsen

Technology Manager, Proquest CSA

LIDA, Dubrovnik May 30th 2007

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Searching CSA Illustrata

• You can enter the database through the traditional abstracts search interface, or directly

• When using the traditional abstracts interface, the search results will be flagged to indicate objects are available

• Advanced searches in both options will allow you to search within figure captions, article vs. object descriptors, and so on.

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Reasons Why Data Are Hidden Continued…

3. Data can be hidden within a large result set A search for wind stress and Pacific produces:

a) >1,900 generally valuable results or…. b) or a highly targeted subset

vs.

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Deep Indexing Of Data Summaries Would Make Them Visible And Retrievable

Deep Indexing involves:

Identification of tables and figures (images, charts, maps, etc.) found within a scholarly article

Extraction and indexing of data surrounding the table or figure to provide indexing for each image

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Deep Indexing Will Provide: An image of the Figure or Table

Full caption

Article citation with link to full abstract

Category (Graph, Satellite Image, …)

Subject, taxonomic, geographic and statistical descriptor terms taken from caption, data variable labels and surrounding text

Units for subject variables

Link to Full Text

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Object Categories for LIMIT and SEARCH Graph Graph; 3D Surface Plot Graph; Area Chart Graph; Box Plot Graph; Cluster Diagram Graph; Contour Plot Graph; Histogram/Bar Chart Graph; Line Graph Graph; Pie Chart Graph; Polar Plot Graph; Spectral Analysis Graph; Spectrogram Graph; Time Series Plot Illustration Illustration; Chemical Structure Illustration; Equipment Illustration Illustration; Flow Chart Illustration; Molecular Structure Illustration; Organism Illustration

Illustration; Schematic Illustration; Venn Diagram Map Map; Bathymetric Map Map; Geological Map Map; Study Site Map Map; Topographic Map Photograph Photograph; Dot Blots Photograph; Equipment Photograph Photograph; Gel Photograph; Organism Photograph Photograph; Photomicrograph Photograph; Satellite Image Photograph; Study Site Photograph Photograph; Vertical Section

Photograph Transmission/Emission Image Table

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Click on image for full Object Record

Abstract Record

Thumbnails of all tables and

figures displayed

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FULL OBJECT RECORD

Publisher attribution

Object Descriptors

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Current Publisher Status

• Over 1,100 worldwide journal titles included at launch

• Working on 10-yr back files (some back to 1890)

• Continued focus on publisher agreements:

Agreements Under Discussion:Akadémiai KiadóAmerican Assoc. for the Advance. of

Sci.American Assoc. of Petroleum

GeologistsAmerican Geophysical UnionAmerican Meteorological SocietyAmerican Society for MicrobiologyASLOBrill - Martinus Nijhoff, etc.EDP SciencesElsevier ScienceEmerald Group Publ Ltd

Agreements Completed:BioOneBioMedCentralBlackwell PublishingCambridge University

PressGeological Soc. of AmericaIOS PressOxford University PressNat’l Res. Council CanadaPLoSSpringer-VerlagTaylor & FrancisWalter de GruyterElsevier Science

Haworth PressIOPInderScience Institute of PhysicsJohn Wiley & SonsLippincottSAGE PublicationsUniversity of Chicago Press

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Multi Disciplinary Enhanced Coverage 1 Million Indexed Tables and Figures

Agriculture3%

Biology31%

Psychology3%

Environmental Studies3%

Business and Economics

10%

Philosophy2%

Medical Sciences39%

Earth Sciences5%

Political Science4%

Subject by

Ulrich’s

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How does it work?

CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences

Demonstration

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Search Specificity:

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Traditional Abstracts Search Results will include “pinkies”

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Results from a direct search of objects includes thumbnails

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Both search paths will lead to enhanced abstract records containing thumbnails of all objects in the article…

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Full display available in main “Object Record”

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Years of Coverage

Objects per year

0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

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CSA Illustrata In Summary

Provides through Deep Indexing an innovative approach to locating information in the scholarly literature

Multidisciplinary content International in scope Can be searched alone or combined with

other CSA databases Intuitive interface designed with

researcher input

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CSA Illustrata

Leader in Deep Indexing