New Information Services in Germany: GetInfo and vascoda 232nd ACS-Meeting, Dr. Irina Sens, 09/06

2 TIB Hannover – Some of the facts (1) >German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) : specialises in all areas of technology and their related sciences, in particular architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics >Founded in 1959 >Financed by the German Government (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and all „Laender“ >Member of the Leibniz Association = German non- university research organisation >FTE: 160

3 TIB Hannover – Some of the facts (2) >7.3 mio. items and 18,000 journal subscriptions >Special collections : Grey Literature (conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards) >Important document delivery supplier: round about 490,000 orders in 2005 >Running subject portals: Engineering, Physics and Chemistry >DOI-Registration agency for scientific and technical primary data >Target groups: Scientists in industry and in science

4 Goals >Single point of access for documents in sciences and technology regardless of physical form: important is only the quality and the need of customers >All documents are accessible for the customer  One-stop-shopping

5 GetInfo-Portal >Broad and innovative collaboration  Interconnectivity of Information Services  TIB: Full Text Solutions  Subject Information Centers  FIZ Technik: Engineering Databases  FIZ CHEMIE: Chemistry Databases  FIZ Karlsruhe: STN-Databases sponsored by

6 Seamless integration of > Information resources > Retrieval > Delivery mechanisms  Scientific and technical literature and information portal where  content and service converge to make resources readily accessible, openly available, useful, and usable. GetInfo – the Vision

7 Bibliographic and Factual Databases INSPEC Infotherm STN-Index … GetInfo Full Text Solution Document Delivery Pay-Per-View Subscription Reliability of Resources Reputation of Information Key-Websites TIB-Catalog Books, Theses Reports Conference Proceedings Journals

8 GetInfo Subject Clusters

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10 Access information

11 Status - Search Meta Search Engine >Search free of charge >Short title presentation free of charge - defined by Database Supplier –Short title information –Information about number of hits in the database - STN >Full title presentation directed to the host - under his conditions

12 Status - Full Text Solution Classical Document Delivery >German Copyright Law (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein) >Licence Agreement between Publishers and TIB for “rest of the world” Electronic Content >Pay-Per-View >Handling of Subscriptions

13 Future >Enhanced Search Technology  Search engine – whenever it’s possible  Federated search  Integrated ranking of results  Web 2.0 features >Increase Searchable Content  Deep web  All information types – text, numeric data, audio, video, etc >Expanding Digital Access  Pay-Per-View – Licences

14 From GetInfo to vascoda >GetInfo is a subject portal for science and technology >vascoda is a central access point for interdisciplinary searches and >provides access to subject portals  Navigation system sponsored by

15 Institutions involved More than forty German institutions are working together to offer users one single-point-of access for “Where can I find information to…?” =

16 vascoda wants to provide orientation in the face of multiple providers

17 The Institutions >Libraries (German National Libraries and special subjects collection Libraries ) >Information Centres (database producers and providers) >Library Network Centers  approaches and interests need to be harmonized

18 Subjects reached by vascoda so far Anglo-American Culture Business and Economics Chemistry (coming soon) Contemporary Art Dutch Culture Engineering Ethnology Geo-Sciences History Ibero-America Law Medicine Middle East Pharmacy Physics Politics and Peace Psychology Romanic Languages Social Sciences Veterinary Medicine

19 Target User-Groups Higher education and academic research community Other people interested in high- quality information

20 Interdisciplinary Search

21 Interdisciplinary results

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23 Use of Search Engine Technology >At the moment vascoda is based on a meta-search >In the future search engine-technology will become more and more important  Improvements of service: performance, facetted search (refinement) But: >Realization of Federated Search is necessary >Not one central index >Not one central search engine

24 Digital Library of Germany Subject Portals like GetInfo vascoda Federated Search InterdisziplinarySearch Subject-spezialisedSearch

25 Thank you very much for your attention!