welcome to cern’s scientific information service

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Welcome to CERN’s Scientific Information ServiceAlexander Kohls, Group Leader RCS-SIS23 September 2019


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CERNs mission goes beyond building accelerators


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The role of CERN’s Scientific Information Service changed over time…


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https://repo.scoap3.org

https://inspirehep.net

https://analysispreservation.cern.ch


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…but the overall SIS mission remained the same

§ Accelerate the advancement of science by

§ disseminating scientific knowledge for the best of

§ the CERN community and all particle physicists.


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SIS’ services and projects

Archive Inspire Library Open Science

Alexander Kohls

Jens Vigen

AnitaHollier

•CERN Archive

•Pauli Archive

•Records Mgmt.

TullioBasaglia

•Electronic Resources Mgmt.

•On-site Library

•CERN Bookshop

•Document mgmt.

Stella Christodoulaki

• INSPIRE Collaboration

•HEPdata

•SCOAP3 Repository

P. Fokianos / A. Lavasa

•CERN Analysis Preservation

•Persistent Identifiers

•SCOAP3

Collaboration

•Open Access Policy

•CERN Publishing


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CERN’s on-site library – 24/7 service for all CERN users

§ 122’000 paper titles (around 48’000 titles in the Library)§ 94’000 e-books and 2’000 journals§ Some statistics (2018):

§ 90’000 visits§ 1’100 interlibrary loans§ 7’700 books and e-books added to the catalogue

§ Very positive user feedback (~1’000 internal service requests, 99% very satisfied)


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CERN’s on-site library – librarians who know the HEP community

Salome Rohr

§ Acquisition librarian and documentprovision (ILL)

§ Bachelor in information science (Geneva, Switzerland)

§ Worked as university librarian

§ Joined the CERN Library in 2012

“I like being challenged by our scientists and community and finding the documents they need for their work.”


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CERN’s on-site library – what our visitors think

« The library is a quiet and nice place to hide and

spent quality time for studying and think […] »

« I love the CERN library! I wished more people would be using it. Thank

you so much for providing this quiet and comfortable space to us. »

« Physical books are great. Thank you for

defending and looking after them ! »


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CERN Yellow Reports publishing – more than 60 years of author service

§ Series ongoing for >60 years

§ 1’200 publications so far

§ Oversight by the CERN ReportEditorial Board

§ Wide range of topics:§ Impact studies§ Technical design reports§ Conference & School proceedings § History reports§ Specialized monographs


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CERN Yellow Reports publishing – always at the service of authors

Jens Vigen

§ Expert in scientific publicationsadvising all CERN staff & users

§ Trained as engineer

§ Academic librarian for 30 years§ Involved in numerous international

conferences and advisory boards § At CERN since 1994

“Interacting with researchers and supporting the scientific process stimulates me.”


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CERN Yellow Reports publishing – what our authors think

« I published so far in many journals but care for quality by

the Yellow Report team is exceptional, what I never met

before. I am just impressed, and the rest of the editors. »

« The Yellow Reports are extremely useful (in printed form)

and the present support by SIS is just great. ;-) »

« Many thanks in advance to preserve the quality of the extremely useful

CERN Yellow Reports, which are used inside CERN but also world-wide. »


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SCOAP3 – the largest Open Access initiative

§ SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) makes ~90% of HEP journal articles OA

§ 3,000 partner libraries from 43 countries and 3 IGO’s§ 7,000 articles/year in 11 journals

§ Partner libraries redirect funds previously used to pay subscriptions

§ CERN is host organization and contractual counterpart of all stakeholders

for the benefit of SCOAP3

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SCOAP3 – a small but efficient operations team

Jelena Brankovic

§ SCOAP3 operations, invoicing and partnership support

§ Trained as science journalist and economist

§ Studied in several European universities:§ M.Sc. in Intellectual property rights

(Paris, France)§ M.Sc. In Cooperation and innovation

policies (Turin, Italy)§ B.Sc. in business and theoretical

economics (Belgrade, Serbia)

“I enjoy working on SCOAP3 because of its international environmentand the feeling of having a real impact by helping science to be moreavailable to the world.”


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SCOAP3 – what the community thinks

« I have always been very impressed by the pioneer work

of CERN in the field of Open Access. SCOAP3 served as a

major source of inspiration when I developed Plan S […] »(Robert-Jan Smits, former OA Envoy of the EC)

« Stephen Hawking's final article https://futurism.com/stephen-

hawkings-final-theory-multiverse/… (freely available thanks to @scoap3) »

(from Twitter)

« #scoap3 is a transformative agreement,

and the most successful says @wisealic »

(from Twitter)

https://t.co/7vWvdN1Stb?amp=1

https://twitter.com/scoap3

https://twitter.com/hashtag/scoap3?src=hashtag_click

https://twitter.com/wisealic


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INSPIRE – the portal for particle physics

§ Literature search (published & unpublished), author profiles, experiments and conference data base & HEP related jobs

§ 50k active users (researchers)§ 1.4 M bibliographic records

§ 23M citations

§ 200k searches/day§ 6 collaborating institutions


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INSPIRE – 10 experts to serve the worldwide HEP community

Micha Moskovic

§ INSPIRE content expert and curation resource coordinator

§ Trained as a physicist§ Former researcher in theoretical

High-Energy Physics § Ph.D. in Brussels, Belgium§ Postdoc in Turin, Italy

§ Joined the INSPIRE team in 2016

“It's great to work on INSPIRE and be able to positively impact thelives of tens of thousands of researchers who use our service daily tosatisfy their information needs. I like that my daily work is very varied,and I enjoy the friendly atmosphere in the group.”


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INSPIRE – what our users think

« INSPIRE is an amazing resource for the community. »

« [...] thank you for all the great work you do every day on the INSPIRE

archive – it is such a huge contribution to very many people’s research. »

« I greatly appreciate […] the fantastic work that you guys do to make it

easy for folks like me to get access to publications. »


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CERN Analysis Preservation – preserve the entire research process

§ Platform that enables the High-Energy Physics community to preserve and share their research objects (data, code, notes,…)

§ Collaboration with all the major LHC experiments§ Versioning of data & code, using the publishing draft/record model

§ Integration with related scientific services and universal identifiers (i.e. ORCID, ROR)

§ Ongoing integration with CERN services that support remote execution and reuse (e.g. reana)


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CERN Analysis Preservation - developers working with the scientists

Ilias Koutsakis

§ Backend developer for CAP § B.Sc. in Computer Science and

M.Sc. in Data Science§ Previously worked as a developer

for INSPIRE and as a machine learning specialist for Elsevier

§ Joined the Open Science team in 2019

“Coming from data science, I have repeatedly observed the need for aunified approach in preserving workflows and allowing users to runtheir code and data in a versioned way. CERN Analysis Preservationallows me to work in a much-needed project, in an international andfriendly environment.”


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CERN Analysis Preservation – what other researchers think

« This is super cool. @CERN is doing great work in this space, and I am so

happy to see Recast and analysis preservation/reuse becoming a reality! »(from Twitter)

« Important milestone in the reinterpretation journey: the first “official

RECAST” of @ATLASexperiment […] as a result of having @analysispreservas an approval req […] »

« […] configuring OSF to follow data management policies is not possible when

requirements differ […]. A similar approach is the CERN Analysis preservation where the file preservation is included into the analysis workflow. In other words

the preservation is done right when the research data is being processed. »

(from researchgate)

(from Twitter)


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What will SIS’ role be in another 65 years?

§ New technologies (what could it be?) but still the same purpose: Accelerate the advancement of science

§ Prediction: physical books and an on-sitelibrary will still exist


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Thank you very much!

Alexander KohlsCERN Scientific Information Service

Email: [email protected]: +41 22 767 38 25Twitter: @oxmynx

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