Open Access Scholarly Databases

Hanoi

December 10, 2007

Professor Peter JacsoDepartment of Information and Computer Sciences

University of Hawaii

TOPICS

• The OA Initiatives and Movements• The Layers of OA• The Players in OA• OA Book collections• OA Conference Proceedings• OA Periodicals• OA Dissertations• OA Indexing and Abstracting Databases• OA Full Text Databases• OA Directories and Statistical Databases• OA Sources about OA

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I know many of you had interesting workshops in various Learning Resource Centers across

Vietnam

JacsoBorrowed for fair use from Terry Plum

And more fun time

And fun time

By Terry Plum and Pat Oyler

And I hope this session will be for use and fun after all we are

discussing OPEN ACCESS which is > then free access

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Open Access Initiatives and MovementsFusion of tradition & high-tech

free & permanent

online (Web) access

for any user, anywhere

to full-text scholarly materials

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Budapest Open Access Initiative

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http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge

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http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Stevan Harnad

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http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/harnad

Peter Suber

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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/

THE ROADS TO OPEN ACCESS - (Harnad’s terminology)

• Golden Road (born/converted to be free)

• Green Road (authors allowed to archive & post post-print version)

• Light Green Road (authors have right to archive pre-print version)

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- THE ROADS TO OPEN ACCESS (Harnad’s terminology)

• Systematic by journal

• Ad-hoc by articles

• Mandated OA by employers , funding organizations), government (!)

• Volunteered by publisher

• Self-archived by individuals

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MAJOR TYPES of OA DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

• Institutional repositories (Univ of Southampton)

• Topical (subject) repositories - (DLIST, eLIS)

• Personal repositories (Eugene Garfield)

• Publishers’ and digital facilitators’ collections

• Immediate OA

• Delayed OA (moratorium 3-24 months)

• Out of copyright collections (Live Windows Books)

• Selective open access (Google Books)

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Layers of OA (my opinion, no declaration)

• Partially open access (hundred millions of bibliographic records with abstracts)

• Not just peer-reviewed research journals but also professional journals (Online, Searcher, etc.) – but here it is not mandated

• Not just journals but also books, conference proceedings, encyclopedias, etc.

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Free or feels like free Vietnam’s natural beauties - for the natives

Subsidized databases for Vietnamese LRCs in Can Tho Hue Da Nang Thai Nguyen

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Through

By

• Hawaii HSPLS card carrying member

• Hawaii DOE students

• Hawaii private school students

• Hawaii private college and university

students

• UH students, faculty & staff

• UH LIS students through yours truly

Free or feels like free in Hawaii

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Excerpts from

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http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/157-Jacso-en.pdf

Open Access (OA) is here to stay … and grow

• OA > Free

(for whom, for how long, from where?)

• OA is universally free

(for anyone, from anywhere, at anytime)

• May be a subset of, mixed with non-OA

• May have limits in retrospectivity and currency

• You can browse, search, display substantial info

• Digital D-i-v-i-d-e alliterates nicely - but it is just not true

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The time is ripe

• Best ways to promote implementation of OA

talk and write about the variety in HICs & LICs

use and show ‘em to prove their instant benefits

• Digital (& wireless) make the world go ‘round

• Digital & wireless & OA make information go ‘round the world

• OA information & Open Source Software

make the perfect pair for OA databases

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The success of Open Source SW & affordable infrastructure

• Global success of CDS/ISIS family (MicroISIS,

WinISIS, GenISIS, JavaISIS, WWW-ISIS)

• Eprints, Greenstone DL, Dspace

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• Plummeting hardware costs (and sizes), affordable infrastructure

Widely available financial support

• International agencies, non-profits, charities • UNxxx, FAO, WHO, Cornell, Harvard, NISC,

Wellcome Trust, Soros Foundation, INASP, Human Info NGO

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Digital U-n-i-t-e

When you see and use

Open Access

Indexing

Indexing & Abstracting (I&A)

Full-text (FT)

Directory

Numerical-statistical

Geographic-cartographic

Multimedia (image, audio and video) databases

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What is available OA?Ask what is not availableFinding tools (catalogs, I&A databases, directories)Primary documents

Books Journal articles Conference papers Government reports Technical Manuals Theses and dissertations Statistics, censuses, surveys Maps, photos, drawings Audio and video recordingsEncyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, almanacs, reviews

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I &A Databases

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Government + International Organizations

Providers – I/A databases

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Associations

Providers – Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets

+ many others

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Volunteers

Publishers

Providers – Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets

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Providers - Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets

Facilitators

Web-born entrepreneurs

Traditional Information Services

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Closest to your heart

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FT Databases/subsets

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The largest multidisciplinary OA subset

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Toxoplasmosis search in HWP

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Largest OA FT Collections

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The World of OA Full-Text / FT Subsets Providers -

Government

Associations

Volunteers

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Publishers

- The World of OA Full-Text / FT Subsets Providers

Facilitators

Others

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OA Books

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OA Theses & Dissertations

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OA Ready Reference Collections

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Special Subsidized Access for the 68 LICs + almost OA for 45 others

• Generous publishers

• Participation based on GNP per capita;

<$1,000 group and $1,000-$3,000 group

• Check if your country is qualified and registered

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Does Vietnam qualify for special HINARI/AGORA deal?

• Absolutely – go for it, no, run for it – NOW

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HINARI

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AGORA

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Most OA – supporting countries

• USA

• UK

• Canada

• Australia

• New Zealand

• Japan

• Brazil

• India

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

• For Sleeping Beauty HICs and struggling LICs alike

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

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Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models)

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OA databases of India

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What full-text is free ?

• News items

• Selective feature articles

• All articles from 199x to Today + ….month(s)

• Everything

• Web-borne vs Web-born journals

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FREE for …..

• Ever (?)

• A week

• A month

• Temporarily

• Ever (after 6-12 month moratorium)

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Emerald Journal(s) of the week

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Sage

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LISTA Database

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Vietnam in the title

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Vietnamese in the title

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Vietnam OR Vietnamese in the title

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With Vietnam* somewhere in the title, abstract, descriptor and in… – 1,819 times

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Vietnam* in all the text in nearly 1,000 records with FULL TEXT

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How many records with “open access”

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How many available in full text?

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How many records with yours truly’s

name?

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How many in OA full text?

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And now …about Google Scholar (GS)

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The Myth

• GS is the alpha and the omega of OA sources

• “I don’t need no nothing with GS at my fingertip”-attitude

• GS personality cult

GS is the smartest

GS is my best friend

GS for president

GS for People magazine cover

GS for TIME Magazine Person of the Year

• GS for citedness and impact factor

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The Reality

• Secrecy about sources

• Secrecy about journals

• Secrecy about time span

• Secrecy about size

• Secrecy about everything

• Huge gaps in collections crawled from partners’ archives

• No crawling binge allowed by Elsevier, ACS, and …..

• Good for the casual search, for the undergrad students, but not for the real scholars

• Information Professionals beware of your reputation

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Reality Check

Check it for yourself

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/scholarly/side-by-side2.htm

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I will update it soon.

Use under Firefox not IE ! 

Check out my short picture-book for GS Innumeracy & GS Illiteracy

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Some

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Surprising

Sample

Searches

SSSS

Google Scholar

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Google Scholar’s Basic Boolean Blunder

GS advanced template

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Wow, how many items with Vietnam in the title alone ….

… Even if GS shows only the first 1,000, or 995 or less

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So lets search for Vietnam OR Vietnamese (GS can’t truncate)

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How can it be fewer with using OR?Why did it drop from 134,000 to 43,400? Why did it loose 70% of its hits?Because GS can’t tell the truth. GS is partially illiterate and innumerate and less then sincere

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After Boolean OR the set decreases to 32% of the original

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DO USE & ENJOY Google Scholar but• don’t believe its hit numbers and citedness scores

even if it seems to see the future and tell what will be published

and how many hundred times they were already cited

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by papers published 10-15 years ago

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Actually 2008 is not a publication year but a page number and in other cases a part of the ISSN, a phone

number, a ZIP code or anything that is four digit

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Google Scholar sees farther in the future

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Cited by papers published in the 1990s already

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The GS hit counts are typically inflated - but authors and co-authors have interesting names

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… and so are the citation counts which could ease my pain for my misspelled name

If they were true

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Even if that 4 is only 3 – or just 1

DC Field (=Dublin Core field) a.k.a Meghan Lafferty in April, 2004 did not

&could not

quote my Google Scholar review as Google Scholar was introduced in November, 2004

and my review published in December, 2004

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GS suggests authors on the topic - thank you

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Google Scholar explains how to use the author names

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…. and explains many other things

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Who is cited & what is cited?

Who isR. Card?

Cited only 4 times in 6 years?

STD article in Circulation

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Oh, this is advertising

circulation data

And this is the journal name

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Oh, this is advertising

circulation data

Google Scholar often finds the most hits

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and points out who are the most productive authors on the topic

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Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections -

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- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections

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The Low Profile but useful CrossRef service

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OA Resources to keep up with OA –

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Green and Pale Green Journals

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