Synergies, OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal

http://www.synergiescanada.org

Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynn Copeland, and Rea Devakos

ElPub 2008

I. Synergies

Michael Eberle-SinatraUniversité de Montréal

Synergies Partners

Affiliated Universities Acadia University Athabasca University Dalhousie University Memorial University Mount Saint Vincent

University St. Francis Xavier

University Université du Québec à

Montréal Université du Québec en

Outaouais Université Laval

University of British Columbia

University of Guelph University of

Saskatchewan University of Victoria University of Winnipeg Windsor University York University

II. OJS in the Synergies Context

Lynn CopelandSimon Fraser University Library

Ithaka report – recommendation

‘Develop a shared electronic publishing infrastructure’

Libraries Publishers

Technology… use and build Commercial discipline – Distribution and sustainability

Expertise in organizing info. Understand publishing proc.

Storage & preservation cap. Evaluate demand

Subject specialists Expert in editorial process

Connections to academy Work with faculty as content creators

Funding… but Marketing

SFU Library & PKP

Partnership akin to Ithaka report Lead: John Willinsky SFU Library: development & host SFU CCSP Press: publishing support

Development partners SPARC INASP, Oxford IBICT, Brasilia REDALYC, Mexico FeSalud, España JMIR Multiliteracy Project NCSI, IIS, Bengalooru

Kopak, Chan UBC Siemens et al UVIC  Athabasca U U of Toronto UNB U Montreal

In conclusion:

Challenges too big to ‘go it alone’

III. Integration with Ontario’s Scholars Portal

Rea DevakosScholarly Communication

Initiative

The Partners: Ontario Synergies

U of Guelph U of Toronto (lead) U of Windsor York U

Running:– OJS– OCS– Dspace

The Partners: OCUL Scholars Portal

20 universities 382,000 FTE students, staff and faculty resource sharing collective purchasing Scholars Portal Service examples

– Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure

– RefWorks– 150,000 e-books; 120,000 plus OA

Objectives To provide for the long term, secure archiving of

resources to ensure continued availability; To ensure rapid and reliable, response time for

information services and resources; To provide an environment that fosters additional

innovation in response to the needs of users; To create a network of intellectual resources by

linking ideas, materials, documents and resources.

Local loading 200 million citations from 200 A& I

– 47% science – 29% multidisciplinary – 18% social science – 5% arts and humanities

13 million full text journal articles from over 8,250 journals

4.2 million articles downloaded in 2007 Elsevier, Oxford, Taylor and Frances, Berkeley and

the America Chemical Society etc.

Synergies content into Mark Logic

Builds indexes not only on words but context and hence can provide a richer search– stores XML documents,, in native format. – indexes individual works, XML elements and

attributes, such as tables or illustrations NIH DTD New interface:

– relevance-based searching– facet-based browsing– thesaurus expansion– Language-based stemming and collations– automatic-classification

Challenges and Opportunities

Xml and our journals Subscription based journals Scholars Portal as a “Trusted digital

repository” Beyond journals

Conference proceedings/ abstracts Repository

Synergies, OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal

http://www.synergiescanada.org

Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynn Copeland, and Rea Devakos

ElPub 2008