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Weaving Data into the Scholarly Information Network
UNECE Work Session on the Communication of StatisticsOECD Conference Centre, ParisJune 30 - July 2nd 2010
Toby GreenHead of Publishing, OECD
Research can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts.
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
Nearly 18,000 journals600 trade publications350 book series 3,6 million conference papers38 million records from 199619 million pre-1996 recordsResults from 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices
Finding Research
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
Where do you start your research?
Source: Inger & Gardner, How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content, 2008, http://www.sic.ox14.com/howreadersnavigatetoscholarlycontent.pdf
Google et al
EconLit et al
Repec
Source: Alexa. Downloaded on June 29th 2010
A&I & subject portals Publishers
Library portals
Content Aggregators
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Ingenta
The Real World Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books
Network
Source: crossref.org on June 3rd 2010
. . . to scholarly articles and book chapters . . .
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
A&I & subject portals Publishers
Library portals
Content Aggregators
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Ingenta
The Real WorldScholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books
Network
OECD
IMF
UN
World Bank
Conclusion: You can stand on the shoulders of giants . . .
. . . but it seems you have to do so without data.
A&I & subject portals Publishers
Library portals
Content Aggregators
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Ingenta
The Real WorldScholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books
Network
OECD
IMF
UN
World Bank
How do you round up lost
sheep?
By creating metadata for: Datasets
In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters
andJournal articles
Authors will be able to cite . . .
Publishers will be able to link . . .
Discovery systems will be able to find . . .
Librarians will be able to catalogue . .
.
Datasets alongside published outputs . . .
. . . to the benefit of Everyone
A proposed presentation of a dataset using standard bibliographic and citation metadata.
Bibliography of Books that
cite this database
Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al
Dataset title with ISSN,
DOI (& MARC) record
And here's how . . . . . . it can be done
A&I & subject portals Publishers
Library portals
Content Aggregators
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Ingenta
The Real WorldScholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books
Network
OECD
IMF
UN
World Bank
. . . we’ll join the network
With OECD iLibrary . . .
