PSIgate: “ two clicks away from rich information” John Blunden-Ellis, USTLG Meeting 17 June 2004 history and policy chemistry earth sciences astronomy physics materials

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Current Product Development Growth and Content Usage and Marketplace Future Plans

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 1. Current Product Development Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel. Last updated November Reviewed on a six-monthly basis. Re-structure for September 2004.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

Current Product Development: Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel Harvesting tool

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

Current Product Development: Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel Harvesting tool Products and services

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Top 50 Measured by number of clickthroughs to original resource from catalogue. 267,000 clickthroughs in total on PSIgate since August Most popular site had 248 visits in November 2002.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Timelines 1,428 lines. Single science timeline or separate subject timelines. Can be searched by word or by date range. 12,600 word searches since August 2003

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Newsfeeds PSIgate Headlines, Spotlight, PSIgate Newsletter, Jobs and Courses, Newsfeeds. Newsfeeds: BBC, Associated Press, New Scientist, IoP, scenta, LTSN Materials, NextWave, Google Science. Cross searching planned.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Space Guide Topical features on Astronomy. Updated with a new feature(s) every six weeks or so. All features linked to the Catalogue through relevant links. First feature on Constellations with a star map of each constellation. Next feature will be Saturn.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway A-Z listing of Browse Headings Originally listed by subject and main Heading. Now additional choice of full alphabetic Listing.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Current Product Development Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel Harvesting tool Products and services Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

Current Product Development Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel Harvesting tool Products and services Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality Links to other services

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway ETB Engineering & Technology Board. ETB have adopted Many browse headings From PSIgate. Link to PSIgate Catalogue. Use articles from Spotlight.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway IoP PSIgate pioneered arrangement with IoPP. Remote searching all abstracts of IoPP journal articles (over 150,000). Cross searching with PSIgate and Zetoc set up but results unhelpful. Access to full article if user institution subscribes.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway RSChem Agreement with RSC to provide remote searching of abstracts of journal articles Published by RSC. RSC LIC useful for images relating to Chemistry history (2,000 digitised).

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Current Product Development Regular review of Welcome Page look and feel Harvesting tool Products and services Presentation of search results and added Google-like functionality Links to other services Spotlight redesign

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

2. Growth and Content Main catalogue 11,100 resource descriptions (June 2004) in the main catalogue: High granularity. Tutorials/Lecture Notes/Case Studies…. 1,200 tutorials; 1,350 lecture notes; 172 laboratory practicals Web catalogue (harvester) 122,000 resources in the harvested catalogue

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Growth and Content Content breakdown of main catalogue by subject area: ASTRONOMY:1,796 CHEMISTRY:3,612 EARTH SCIENCES:3,119 PHYSICS:3,107 SCIENCE HISTORY & POLICY:1,000

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 3.Usage and Market Place Global usage of PSIgate. Usage model: Subject keyword searches + subject browse searches + searches of static pages. Per Month Page views. Per Month Size of ac.uk marketplace and PSIgate usage within that marketplace. Usage model: Subject keyword searches + subject browse searches + Searches of static pages + % of unresolved host/location. Per Month Page views. Per Month

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 196,000 keyword searches

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway

Top 10 institutional users of PSIgate August 2003 – May 2004 (10 months) Institution Number of searches Bath3,443 Manchester3,240 Cambridge2,786 Dundee2,460 UMIST1,833 Oxford1,570 Bristol1,510 Imperial1,230 Nottingham1,202 Kingston1,145

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway PSIgate Size of ac.uk market sector in physical sciences SUBJECTSTUDENTSSTAFF TOTAL Chemistry/Materials/Ceramics20,3303,865 24,195 Physics/Astronomy14,1003,960 18,060 Earth/Marine/Environmental Science29,3403,100 32,440 Other 1, ,470 TOTAL:65,12511,050 76,175 Source: HESA Number of PSIgate searches from ac.uk origin for : 72,000

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway PSIgate User Survey

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway 4.Future Plans Two major projects for : eBank in partnership with UKOLN and the University of Southampton Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry in partnership with the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University And Outcomes of six-monthly team Brainstorming meeting

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway eBank (1) Subject area: chemistry (crystallography). Based on the perception that research and learning processes are cyclical. Outputs are based on the use and re-use of data and information. Example: student might wish to ‘rollback’ to the original research data on which a publication was based. This underpins the concept of provenance. Therefore, eBank project wishes to link publications and the datasets to which the publications refer, giving users access to the datasets.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway eBank (2) Draw on experimental work undertaken for the Combechem project (combinatorial chemistry) where large quantities of varied data are generated. Comparing/testing metadata schemas for chemistry datasets (e.g. CLRC Scientific Metadata Model). Demonstrator currently in preparation. Harvesting metadata about eprints, and harvesting metadata about research data. These will be brought together. Demonstrator database made available via PSIgate September/October Valuable learning/teaching and research tool.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry (1) Pilot study at PSIgate (MSc project). Create an exemplar database of research interests harvested from departmental websites. Each record based on individual. Metadata: author, institution, departmental details, stated research interests/publications, controlled keywords, uncontrolled keywords, webpage date, record creation date. Code written (Java) that will automatically extract data from all UK chemistry websites and re-present in database form.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Database of Current Research Interests in Chemistry (2) Automatic database creation. Testing and refining code, based on experimental work undertaken at Department of Chemistry at Cambridge (Chemical Informatics Group: Chemical Data Checker, etc). Promote to ac.uk chemistry community, with protocols for easy amending of webpages. Database automatically updated weekly. Extend model to global listing. Possible application to other disciplines in physical sciences.

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Brainstorming – some plans for separate action lines. Events database for PSIgate. Separate packaged features: Case studies; Tutorials, etc. based on PSIgate’s high granularity. Redesign Welcome Pages. Focus on IRC growth/quality/specificity through a number of identified initiatives. Revamp browse headings, with pop-up scope notes. etc.

PSIgate: “ two clicks away from rich information” John Blunden-Ellis. USTLG meeting 17 June 2004 history and policy chemistry earth sciences astronomy physics materials