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NEREUSA network of leading libraries collaborate

on

NEEONetwork of European Economists Online

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Researchers support for NEEO

“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

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A library network: 20_10

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We are

• A network of libraries and institutions serving a specific subject community

• Institutions with high-rankings in economics

• Serving our economists by:– increasing visibility of excellent research & – bringing new content online– building added value services– utilising and linking key DL resource capacities

• Serving the network by: – Focussing on cost-efficiency and innovation– Maximising on knowledge-exchange structures

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NEEONetwork of European Economists Online

SEE and BE SEEN

co-funded by the European Union, and Nereus

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Some facts

• Duration: 30 months • 1 September 2007 – 1 March 2010

• eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media• Lead partner: Tilburg University

• 16 universities and research institutions, 20 is the goal• 8 countries: BE, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IE, NL, UK

• Building on Economists Online - retaining the branding

The project is co-funded by the European Union, through the eContentplus programme http://ec.europa.eu/econtentplus.

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Building on EO

EO NEEO

Partners 6 20

References 7k 50k

Full texts 3k 20k

Harvesting IRs 6 20 & EU/world

Content type Pubs. Pubs. & data

Services 2 7

Access English EN, FR, DE & ES

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EContentPlus work programme 2006: 5.1

To improve the interoperability of

digital cultural and scientific/scholarly content held by libraries,

museums and archives and

enable multilingual access to it,

so as to enhance the crossborder

visibility, accessibility, use and re-use of

European cultural and scientific/scholarly resources.

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Key Objective

To improve the global visibility, usability, and management of European economics research

Providing various users easy and open access to high-quality multilingual academic output of leading European

economics institutes and their researchersVia a reliable and sustainable portal with aggregated and

enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services

Showcasing the work of at least 500 leading scholars from 20 institutions

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Key envisaged results 1/2

Users• 500 authors collaborate• User surveys (3): content and service specs & evaluation• IPR advocacy information material• Download statistics

Content & dissemination • Content provided by 20 partners (datasets and publications)• Publications – bib. references: 50,000 & full text: 20,000• Data – issue report, data repositories and 160 datasets• Key data and service providers identified; push and pull

activities

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Key envisaged results 2/2

The NEEO portal• SOA architecture and NEEO technical guidelines• Basic portal exists with content from 6 partners - Aug 2008• Multilingual portal with content from all 16 partners and

advanced services in situ – Aug 2009• Services include: publication lists, portal, full text searching,

metadata enrichment (JEL & ref. lists), automised metadata translation, usage statistics, RSS feeds, etc.

The future• Sustainability and business plan

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NEEO : a stimulus for institutions to

• Establish repositories

• Populate repositories

• Encourage other faculties to collaborate in local IR deposit

• Marry local interests with international developments

• Keep up with international developments

• Keep up with peers

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NEEO features

• Providing new integrated access to leading European economics research

• Providing comprehensive research output with authors

• Stimulating open access deposit among researchers

• Stimulating the creation of and population of repositories

• Collaborating on providing IPR support across 8 countries

• Enhancing multi-lingual access to economics content

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Search engine

Harvester

Metadata

Crawler

NEEO Institutional RepositoriesOther economics repositories

OAI-PMH

Gateway

Portal

Portlet

Publication listgenerator

HTTP

Metadataenrichment

server

RePEc RSS/Atom

OAI-PMH

SRU

Metadata Logs Objects

SRU

OAI-PMH

Service component

subcomponent

Data

Protocol

Ajax server

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NEEO data model

• Decentral deposit • Central harvest and service provision

• Decentral institutional deposit – Ownership and stewardship– Sustainability better guaranteed by the organisation:

• Investment in info and knowledge assets • Infrasructure: Library, IT, info man. and faculty support

– The author is the focus! Not a specific funder or publisher

Search engine

Harvester

Metadata

Crawler

NEEO Institutional RepositoriesOther economics repositories

OAI-PMH

Gateway

Portal

Portlet

Publication listgenerator

HTTP

Metadataenrichment

server

RePEc RSS/Atom

OAI-PMH

SRU

Metadata Logs Objects

SRU

OAI-PMH

Service component

subcomponent

Data

Protocol

Ajax server

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DRIVER

• Part of a world-wide interdisciplinary knowledge-base

• DRIVER repository guidelines

– Use sets to define collections

– High-quality, i.e. granular metadata and MODS

– Need to look at further specifications. But first …..

– NEEO milestone - August 2008

• Learning about DRIVER tools

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For more information

Project Manager: Vanessa Proudman v.m.proudman@uvt.nl

NEREUS: http://www.nereus4economics.info

NEEO: http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo

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