Weaving Data into the Scholarly Information Network UNECE Work Session on the Communication of Statistics OECD Conference Centre, Paris June 30 - July 2 nd 2010 Toby Green Head of Publishing, OECD

Research can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. And to establish facts, one needs Data.

Nearly 18,000 journals 600 trade publications 350 book series 3,6 million conference papers 38 million records from million pre-1996 records Results from 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices Finding Research From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. And to establish facts, one needs Data.

Where do you start your research? Source: Inger & Gardner, How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content, 2008, Google et al EconLit et al Repec

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Source: crossref.org on June 3 rd to scholarly articles and book chapters... And to establish facts, one needs Data.

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Conclusion: You can stand on the shoulders of giants but it seems you have to do so without data.

A&I & subject portals Publishers Library portals Content Aggregators EconLit RePEc Science Direct OPACs Ingenta The Real World Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books Network OECD IMF UN World Bank How do you round up lost sheep?

By creating metadata for: Datasets In the same industry standard formats as... Book chapters and Journal articles

Authors will be able to cite... Publishers will be able to link... Discovery systems will be able to find... Librarians will be able to catalogue... Datasets alongside published outputs to the benefit of Everyone

A proposed presentation of a dataset using standard bibliographic and citation metadata. Bibliography of Books that cite this database Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al Dataset title with ISSN, DOI (& MARC) record

And here's how it can be done

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A&I & subject portals Publishers Library portals Content Aggregators EconLit RePEc Science Direct OPACs Ingenta The Real World Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books Network OECD IMF UN World Bank... we’ll join the network With OECD iLibrary...

Thank you Toby Green Head of Publishing, OECD