Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 ECDL 2003 A German Scientific Portal for Cross- Searching Distributed Digital Resource Collections Heike Neuroth & Tamara Pianos

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Introduction Vascoda is a new portal for scientific information Central access point for all fields of science (not all subjects included yet) Allows interdisciplinary searches as well as (in a later version) complex navigation and browsing

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 The Idea Behind vascoda vascoda facilitates access to quality information Offers access to all types of documents: born-digital as well as digitised and print materials can be obtained either free of charge or through pay-per-view options Includes full-texts, link-collections, bibliographic and other databases, subject-specific search engines and more

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Sponsors and Institutions Involved Sponsors: BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and Research) DFG (German Research Society) Institutions: More than thirty German institutions - with co-operation partners worldwide – are working together to offer users an actual one-stop-shop for all scientific information. The partners of this project are libraries as well as information centres and other institutions providing quality academic information.

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 The Partners The Information Alliance (4 individual projects) Virtual Libraries (23 individual projects) EZB - Electronic Journals Library

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Partners of the Information Alliance Focus on providing digital full-texts, published materials and grey literature Combine the search results of databases with the electronic full-texts provided either by publishers, grey-literature- or preprint-servers etc. EconDoc, GetInfo, infoconnex and Medicine

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Virtual Libraries Offer access to information and documents relevant for research in a specific field of study Integrate searching and the delivery of documents - stored and scattered around the world Cover electronic as well as printed material 23 individual Virtual Libraries, 15 are already online

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Virtual Libraries - Partners Anglo-American Culture (SUB Göttingen) Business (USB Köln) and Economics VWL (ZBW Kiel) Contemporary Art (SLUB Dresden) Dutch Culture (ULB Münster) Engineering (UB/TIB Hannover) Ethnology (HU Berlin) Geo-Sciences (Göttingen) History (BSB München, SUB Göttingen, HU + StaBi Berlin) Ibero-America (IAI Berlin) Law (StaBi Berlin) Medicine (ZBMed Köln) Middle East (ULB Halle) Pharmacy (UB Braunschweig) Physics (UB/TIB Hannover) Politics and Peace (SUB Hamburg) Psychology (SULB Saarbrücken) Romanic Languages (Bonn) Social Sciences (IZ Bonn) Veterinary Medicine (BTiHo Hannover) Wood-Technology (Dresden)

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 EZB - Electronic Journals Library Offers an effective use of academic journals found on the internet Offers fast, structured and standardized access to scientific and academic full text journals Contains 16,470 titles, among them 1,882 online-only journals, covering all subjects 5654 journals can be read free-of-charge The participating libraries offer full text access to the journals they subscribe to

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Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Standardization Document Types monographs journal articles preprints, reports, conference proceedings, manuals, statistics, websites …  a huge effort needs to be taken to standardize metadata

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Standardization Metadata Before vascoda members of the information alliance agreed on a minimum standard of four metadata-fields while the Virtual Libraries agreed on the VLib-Application Profile based on Dublin Core.[1][1] Problem: a certain amount of the metadata is created and delivered by different publishers. A lot of work still needs to be done to find solutions … [1][1]

Heike Neuroth and Tamara Pianos August 19, 2003 Elements of the VLib Application Profile Title Title alternative Subject Description (Abstract, ToC) Indentifier (URI, DOI, ISSN...) Creator (PND, GKD) Publisher Contributor Type Date Format Source Language Relation Coverage Rights Country

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