Research, IT & SFU Library Lynn Copeland IT & Advanced Networks Symposium May 8–9, 2006
Traditional Research Support n Collections n Document delivery n Reciprocal borrowing (Canada-wide) n Liaison librarian n Faculty representative
Less Traditional Research Support (2) n Current Awareness Services n Recently arrived books; awareness service n Bibliographic Management Software Refworks, Citation Manager n Reference services ( , online, in person)
Non-traditional research support n Supporting software n Supporting distribution of scholarly research n Providing an institutional repository for research outcomes n Digitization
SFU Library Software Development reSearcher n Serials Management: CUFTS n Link Resolving, requesting: GODOT n Bibliographic Management: Citation Manager >> n Federated Searching: dbWiz
SFU Library Software Development PKP software n Journal Publishing Management – OJS n Conference Organizing - OCS n Metadata harvester n Originally developed at UBC (John Willinksy) n Now 3-way partnership –(Willinsky, SFU Library, CCSP)
PKP Open Journal System n Provides open access publishing infrastructure n Manages submissions, reviews, editing, etc. n Reduces the cost of scholarly publishing n Currently over 500 journals
PKP Open Conference System n Provides conference organizing infrastructure n Web site, call for papers, submissions, registration, scheduling, etc. n Reduces the cost of conference organizing n V.2 under way
PKP Metadata harvester n Index creation for access to archives compatible with the OAI harvesting prototocol –Acts as “meta” search –Focusing issues surrounding metadata and resource discovery n V.2 about to be released with significant improvements including searching >>
The CARL Harvester n n Hosted and managed by Simon Fraser University Library n Content: Journal articles, Learning objects Theses and dissertations, Photographs Images, Conference Papers Music scores, Data sets
Open access to journals, IR content n Faculty impact factor is increased n Reduces reliance on for-profit increasingly concentrated journal publishers n Increases access to the results of research beyond academia
Growth of Institutional Repositories Source: Institutional Archives Registry
SFU Institutional Repository n Hosted by SFU Library n Can provide ongoing access to SFU’s scholarly output –Articles, working papers, books, theses, data sets, computer programs, conference papers… n Existing content >>
SFU Library digitization and online database ‘containers’ n ContentDM n Citation Manager n BRS (for now) n mySQL (for now) >
Questions? Lynn Copeland
Bulk loading: OCS feeds Dspace
SFU’s Institutional Repository
Collection Digitization
ContentDM
CUSTOM DIGITIZATION Canadiana.org fiche Quality digital copy Research project ECO
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