the librarian as repository manager david kane systems librarian waterford institute of technology
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The Librarian as Repository Manager
David KaneSystems Librarian
Waterford Institute of Technology
Stucture of this Presentation
• My Background• The Changing Role of The Library• History of WIT Repository• The Main Challenge• Previous Promotional Efforts• Current Promotional Efforts• Related Projects
How did I end up doing this?
• Undergraduate degree: Zoology• Postgrad. Diploma: ‘Internet Systems
Development’ – D.I.T. • Worked in the web development industry• Later; DLIS – Aberystwyth (MILS pending)• WIT Libraries
My View of The Changing Library
In the past:• Historically, a place for storing and
preserving information Today:• More information outside library
walls than inside• Great challenge for Librarians
How the WIT Repository Happened
• 2007 – Set up– Dell PowerEdge 2900– Custom Design– LDAP Integration
Repository Benefits
• Open Access to research isabout making research freely accessible, to all humanity. Permanently.
• Increase in citation count• Accessible to those who can’t afford journal
subscriptions• It undermines a 350 year
old publishing model97% Green!
The Major Challenge
• Academics are:– Comfortable with tried and tested forms of
scholarly communication– Comfortable with their colleagues in the same
speciality– They already have their ‘social’ networks
Promotion Efforts
• Emails• Information Sessions• Flyers• Video• Institutional Website – Repository Linkage• Twitter • Data entry (and quite a bit of perspiration!)
Current Promotion Focus
Looking for ways to involve the research office more closely....
• Gathering of references from institute staff• Creation of a repository blog
( http://repository.wit.ie/blog )• Institutional Open Access Mandate
Open Access Mandates in Ireland
The 5 Major Research Funding Bodies:• IRCSET • SFI• HEA• HRB (position statement)• IRHCSS (under discussion)
Academic Institutions:• DIT• WIT (hopefully)
ResearchScope: A novel way to improve the visibility of Irish
Open Access Research
Purpose
• Improve the findability of Irish Open Access research on the Web.
• Add an element of serendipity to repository records, in the metadata pages of repositories.
• Made possible with additional code that generates keyword-relationships between different records.
ResearchScope is
A modified implemetation of PKP’s Harvester2
http://researchscope.net/
The harvesting of Metadata
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is followed by generation of keyword relationships, and then
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the return of value added data
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in the form of links
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between all the recordsin the federation
more inward pointing links = higher search ranking in Google
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The links can actually appear at the bottom of each record in any of the repositories, and connect to similar research in the same, or other repositories.
There is evidence that ‘real’, keyword-rich links are the best kind in terms of getting a favourable search engine ranking
90% of the papers in your repository will have no links pointing to them.
Therefore, with a lower ‘page rank’, they are less likely to be found by researchers.
ResearchScope breaks this cycle.
Inward pointing links = higher search ranking in Google
Let’s see this in action…
Finally.
To try this out yourself.
Visit: http://researchscope.net/keyword/
Thanks.