Abstract: Institutional repositories have spread in universities where they provide services for recording, distributing, and preserving the institution's intellectual output. When the Lausanne "academic server", named SERVAL, was launched at the end of 2008, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine addressed from the outset the issue of quality of metadata. Accuracy is fundamental since research funds are allocated on the basis of the statistics and indicators provided by the repository. The Head of faculty also charged the medical library to explore different ways to measure and assess the research output. The first step for the Lausanne university medical library was to implement the PubMed and the Web of Science web services to easily extract clean bibliographic information from the databases directly into the repository. Now the medical library is testing other web services (from CrossRef, Web of Science, etc.) to generate quantitative data on research impact mainly. The approach is essentially based on citation linking. Although the utility of citation and bibliometric evaluation is still debated, the most prevalent output measures used for research evaluation are still those based on citation analysis. Even when a new scientific evaluation indicator is proposed, such as h-index, we can always see its link with citation. Additionally, the results of a new indicator are often compared with citation analysis. The presentation will review the web services which might be used in institutional repositories to collect and aggregate citation information for the researchers' publications.
Abstract: This website is the local installation of swissbibmobile for the medical libraries of Lausanne. There wil be some little changes from the original version : "swissbibMobile is a mobile client for the swiss libraries metacatalog swissbib. It displays swissbib results on mobile devices using the jQuery Mobile framework. The queries are made using swissbib SRU/SRW service"
Abstract: BiblioFill </p/bibliofill/wiki/BiblioFill> help the repository users to import bibliographic metadata from PubMed, Web of Science, RERO or CrossRef record using the identifier and calling the web services to fill in automatically the Web entry form Visit us at <http://code.google.com/p/bibliofill> Please remember that this is an early version, not all features are implemented yet, and not everything might work as expected. This AJAX system has been implemented in Lausanne Repository (SERVAL <http://serval.unil.ch>) to search/retrieve records using DOI, ISBN and database unique identifiers (PubMed <http://www.pubmed.org>, Web of Science <http://isiknowledge.com> and RERO <http://www.rero.ch>), parsing XML response and mapping metadata fields before the import into the Repository record creation form
Abstract: OpenLinker is a new kind of OpenUrl link resolver client oriented, using AJAX and an open linking knowledgebase, to make links between full text articles, scholarly journals, databases and associated services like interlibrary loan or document delivery
Abstract: Institutional repositories have a dual role, being both open archives, disseminating without barriers research results financed by public funds, and institutional scientific publications directory. Today, a new kind of functionality may be added to these: repositories as main source to evaluate University's scientific production through bibliometric analysis. Indeed, two special types of metadata are included into institutional repositories: bibliographic and administrative information (attribution of publications to each author or research unit from the institution for instance) making them particularly interesting for bibliometric use.
It is common to make use of international and subject databases to feed and improve the content of the institutional repository. These mines of bibliographic information are currently used to import references into archives, individually or in batch. Using Web services and AJAX techniques, they are also exploited during data entry: with a simple identifier, bibliographic metadata is injected into a web form or proposed while typing. At the same time, bibliographic metadata is enriched with unique identifiers that connect the archive with external databases. These identifiers allow the addition of deep links to external databases from the archive or university web pages display. In bibliometrics, these identifiers also play a major role because they allow information import and update. Indeed, for a journal article, the ISSN makes the inclusion of journal impact indicators easier. Other unique identifiers can be used to import the citations count received for a document, calculated by different databases and open archives: UT for the Web of Science, PMID for PubMed Central and PubMed and DOI for CrossRef and SCOPUS. The use of data from an institutional repository as a source of bibliometrics analysis has two advantages. On the one hand, this requires different units of the university to agree and work together to improve the archive's metadata and keep it up to date. On the other hand, the effort invested in sorting, selecting and assigning publications to authors and research units may be exploited by the university evaluation services in order to solve ambiguities generated by homonyms that are common in general databases and makes the bibliometric analysis complicated. Since the creation of Lausanne University's open archive "SERVAL" in late 2008, we are working in this direction at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Currently, the data from SERVAL is used to calculate bibliometric indicators for faculty research units' evaluation. Up to now, these indicators only took into account the impacts of journals in which researchers publish. We are currently working to establish a new system that allows the archive to be enriched with the number of citations for each item. This information will allow us to calculate the h-index and use it as new indicator in our bibliometrics. Managing this new kind of information requires to improve the current system and to make modifications at two levels: upstream, completing and correcting metadata from the archive; and downstream, processing and enriching data with citations information. Indeed, bibliometric indicators are changing rapidly, particularly the number of citations that needs to be updated frequently. The aim of this project is to create a new flexible system that can be integrated with other institutional repositories, as. We believe that the use of these data as a source of bibliometrics is an opportunity to combine forces around the archive and fulfill even more important functions within the institution.
Abstract: In Switzerland, institutional repositories (IRs) have largely spread in academic and research organisations, where they provide services to faculty, researchers, and administrators by bringing together and archiving the intellectual output of their institutions. In many ways, the Swiss IRs are heterogeneous : some are precursors (« Infoscience » at Ecole Polytechnique FeÌdeÌrale Lausanne), others are latecomers (« Serval » at the University of Lausanne or « Archive Ouverte » UNIGE at the University of Geneva), they are on different platforms (CDS Invenio, Fedora), have different growth policies. However, they all share a common goal : to implement efficient tools to assist the submission process and ensure a high level of metadata quality. Administrators and developers of different institutions are now teaming up to thoroughly investigate the use of web services to enhance metadata creation through transfers from authoritative sources : external bibliographic databases, catalogs, controlled lists and repertories. Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications over the networks. With the use of web services, repositories can evolve to operate in an extended environment by communicating with any third-party provider in order, for example, to search and retrieve metadata in a machine-processable format like XML. The poster will review the main providers offering web services for metadata population : · Bibliographic databases for articles : Pubmed, Web of Science, Scopus, Crossref · Catalogs for book records : RERO, Library of Congress, Worldcat, National Library of Medicine · Repertories for identifiers : doi, issn, isbn and authors unique ids The poster will also give an overview of the implementation of the above services in a selection of Swiss IRs and analyse how they can be combined in order to excute value-added operations in order to : · improve the usability of metadata entry tools. · assist the process of capturing content from external sources · build automated workflows.
