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V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
The plan
Who The Project Manager
Goal and corresponding tasks today
• Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service in development; highlighting the portal, technical aspects and the dataset pilot
• Decentralised subject repository
• Managed by consortium of leading libraries
• A possible model of interest for other
Duration 25 - 30mins + time for questions
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
“This EU funding and the widespread collaboration on NEEO are exactly what will make this a success, and, more important, critically allow the world greater and readier access to best research.”
Danny Quah, Prof. of Economics and Head of Dept
Co-funded by the European Union
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Key objectives
To improve the usability and global visibility of economics research
Providing easier and open access to high-quality multilingual academic output of leading economics institutes and their researchers
Via a sustainable portal with aggregated and enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Background
• 18 partners, including Columbia Univeristy, + (16 EU-funded, including the LSE, universities of Oxford, Tilburg, Toulouse, Leuven, Warwick, and UCL)
• Finance: almost € 2m = +/- $ 2,7m • eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media, European
Commission• Nereus: Consortium of 23 academic institutions and their
libraries with strengths in economics
• Duration: 30 months Sept. 2007 – March 2010
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Some stats
• 890> authors participating• Over 2,300 researchers at NEEO institutions in 2007• 350 publication lists
• 41,108 metadata records• 16,868 full text records• 2,583 current content• Publishing over 4,000 docs in 2007
• Currently 6 partners online & RePEc• Economists Online gateway, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2,
version 1.3. Public launch 28 January 2010
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Accessibility
• RePEC services– IDEAS (4)– Econpapers (100)– RePEC author service (22)
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (10)• Econbiz (1)• Google Scholar (294)• Google (185,000) • Author web page (0)
• Economists Online 123
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Improving access to full text
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RePEc IDEAS RePEcEconpapers
SSRN Google GoogleScholar
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Key results
• User requirement studies– Defining and confirming content acquisition and service
specs. e.g. books & chapters, datasets and DB, aim – Quality content, scope, would contribute, visibility+, 73% rec
• Advocacy support: awareness and dissemination plan, IPR report, PR
• Report on the data repository and data issues report• Business and sustainability plan• Workshops and lessons learnt• Long-term preservation• Economists Online portal
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Points of interest to OR09
1. Technical aspects
2. Enhanced publications: Data
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Technical aspects
1. OAI-PMH exchange of DIDL-MODS formatted metadata
2. OAI-PMH exchange of usage metadata
3. Full-text searching
4. Automated publication lists per author
5. Automated enrichment of metadata
6. Integration with RePEc: push and pull
7. Multilingual searching
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Enhanced publications: data
• Access to the primary research datasets (and supplementary materials) that underpin economics publications
• Exploring the issues that hinder OA availability of research data, e.g. privacy, IPR, DB rights
• One of the only concerted European efforts in the social sciences that systematically links primary research datasets to publications
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Enhanced publications: data
• Pilot with 10 datasets per partner • Using DDI standard and Dataverse• NEEO accredits all contributors to the data life cycle, that
is, dataset owners, data sources, data providers/distributors (capturing data provenance info)
• Case study for researchers• Spin-offs
– Emergence of institutional departmental policies for archiving, sharing and improving access to research data
– Introduces the development of new skills and professions for the library community: The Data Librarian
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Is this a model of interest to othersbuilding subject repository services?
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Final conference
• Theme: The future of subject repositories– Geographic overviews: US, Australia and Europe– Workshops on interoperability, datasets, IPR, content
recruitment, multilingual systems and usage statistics
• 28-29 January 2010, British Library, London
• Programme to be published shortly
• Interested in attending? Please mail
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
A model for other subject repositories?• A strong consortium of institutions with a member base• With high-level support from the subject community• Where the institution’s rank and quality content is key• Making concrete efforts to provide new content OA• Showcasing and disseminating work worldwide• Data ownership and management is at & with the organization• A central md store and portal, where added value services are
developed and tested collaboratively• Knowledge exchange activities increase efficiency and inspire• A sustainable model that can be built upon in the future
V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta18 May 2009
Acknowledgements
http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/2067107554/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486219204/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polanri/2397613433/