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THOUSAND FACES OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY
post-conference seminar on Databases and Evaluation of
SSH Research Vilnius, 25 Sep 2013
Jadranka StojanovskiUniversity of Zadar/Rudjer Boskovic
Institute
Croatia
4.5M population 11k scholars
7 universities, 25 research institutes
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
2120 research projects 20k papers per year
1300 islands
About me
Physicist LIS Until 2009 director of the biggest research library in
Croatia (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) From 2009 teacher at the information science dept
(Univ Zadar) Interests: scholarly communication, bibliometrics and
altmetrics, research information systems… Started several national projects…
…I’ll present three of them
Croatian Scientific Bibliography CROSBI
377.758 bibliographic records>20.000
full-text deposited
>30.000 links to the
full-text
CROSBI (1997-) goals
Current research bibliography Multidisciplinary
Created by researchers – monitored by librarians Single access place for all research output of a:
researcherresearch project
institution 4.000 visits /day
Evaluation purposes
BOOKS
BOOK CHAPTERS
ARTICLES
CONFERENCE PAPERS
THESIS
OTHER WORKS
PATENTS
15,267
25,293
124,271
137,267
51,520
23,540
600
CONF PAPERS IN CC
CONF PAPERS IN OTHER JOURNALS
PLENARY/KEYNOTE TALKS
INVITED LECTURES
CONF PAPERS WITH INT. PEER REVIEW
OTHER CONF PAPERS WITH PEER REVEW
NON-REFEREED CONF PAPERS
ABSTRACTS IN BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
UNPUBLISHED CONF PAPERS/POSTERS/PRESENTATIONS
0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000
2887
3342
2397
5440
35987
17121
5302
52911
11880
Questions
More controlled input? (Wikipedia?) „filter and search” or „search and filter”? (Google?
Bubbles?)
How to get (even small) support?
Portal of Croatian OA journals HRČAK
HOW HRCAK WAS INVENTED...
Croatian journals - challenges
• low visibility• difficulties with distribution
• small number of subscribers (mostly local)• low circulation
• insufficient finances• poor infrastructure (including ICT)
• low readability• low citation impact
• not-always-reliable peer review policies
• lack of standards in editorial processes
Importance of the Croatian scholarly publishing
communication of science in Croatia research topics of local or national
interest Croatian language
development of skills and competences: editing, publishing and writing (& citing) need to get/raise credibility
HRČAK – initial goals
simple way to make online version of the (printed) journal
single access point for all Croatian open access journals (scholarly, professional and popular
science) metadata and full-text articles repository
data sharing – with international repositories, databases, archives
HRČAK today
Journals: 342 Journal issues: 7.938
Articles (metadata): 5.436 Articles (full-text): 99.426
• Improved communication with editorials• Improved editorial policies
• Improved communication between editorials• Education
The oldest HRČAK journal – from 1870
Top ten journals by content (# of full-text papers):
Theological Review (5964) • Collegium Antropologicum (2379)
• Folk Art: Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research (2305)
• Acta Clinica Croatica (1796) • Dairy Industry (1671) • Renewed Life (1595)
• Journal for General Social Issues (1387) • Acta stomatologica Croatica (1366)
• The Journal of the Institute of Croatian History (1139)
• Political Thought (1125)
HRČAK journals by discipline
biomedicine and health11%
biotechnical sci-
ences7%
sciences10%
humanities33%
social sciences28%
technical sciences11%
Usage
By humans: 6M visits/year
0.5M visits/month visit is defined as any number of requests from the
same IP address processed during a period of 30 minutes
By robots: 4.500 /month
OAI-PMH
Cooperation with (not)-for-profit databases and repositories producers/publishers
Elsevier/Scopus – 105 Croatian journals ThomsonReuters/WoS – 65 Croatian journals
Google Scholar – all HRČAK journals DOAJ – 88 Croatian journals
citation impact
Web 2.0 applications
Who’s Who in Croatian Science
What is bibliography?
the systematic cataloging, study, and description of written and printed works, especially books
(1) the listing of works according to some system (descriptive or enumerative bibliography) or (2) the
study of works as tangible objects (critical or analytical bibliography) (EB)
(from Greek βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia, literally "book writing"), as a discipline, is traditionally the
academic study of books as physical, cultural objects (Wikipedia)
a list of books, magazines, articles, etc., about a particular subject (Merriam Webster)
What Google thinks about bibliographies?
What are bibliographies today?
Differences between repositories, archives, full-text databases, e-journal collections…?
Differences between catalogues, bibliographies, indices….?
What users like?
„I want it all, and I want it now!”
Open Access to 876.345 e-prints
Possible evaluation criteria for a bibliography
Types of publications Coverage – geographical, temporal, disciplines
Coverage – number of publications Quality – institution’s reputation, added value
Available formats, OS, apps Printing possibilities
Ease of use, user-centered design Searching and browsing tools Managing search results
User’s community Business model Sustainability Feedback Availability Costs
Licencing – Creative Commons etc.
Additional features
Design Rich functionalities
News from scholarly publishing world – raising awareness
New journal, new issues, new articles… Readers’ feedback
Most popular journals, issues, articles… Best ranked journals, article…
Searching and browsing
improved searching possibilities, advanced search with more focused search strategies, stemming
improved browsing possibilities, related papers according different criteria, facets
Implementation of text analysis tools: related papers according text similarities (abstract, references)
Detecting possible duplicates Identifying language
Could our demands influence publishing models?
Dynamical, multilayer, interactive, multimedia content „Machine readable” articles
RDF, linked data Research data
Different formats (beyond PDF) Author identification (ORCID?)
Publication identification (DOI? OpenURL?)
What about metrics?
Existing flat indicators (STM) often misused „Wrapping” is more important then the content
impact factor SJR SNIP
eigenfactor h-index
article influence number of citations number of papers
...
Possible metrics for an article
total number of citations (Google Scholar, Scopus, WoS…) – deduplicated
# visits # downloads # comments
# bookmarks at social networks expert’s rating...
# discussions (blogs) # appearance in other media (newspapers…)
Peter Binfield
Why do we need national, regional, institutional….
bibliographies, repositories, archives, databases…?
beside WoS, Scopus, Medline and all other popular databases
2011
Number of journal papers writter by Croatian scientists in Web of Science 4.434
Number of journal papers in CROSBI 29.581
1 WoS citation
674 downloads
1293 visits
