FLICC Content Management Working Group Annual Update - 9/14/2005 R. James King Ruth H. Hooker Research Library U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Monitoring researcher productivity: KM & Libraries

Oral teaching, students of the greats Manuscripts to extend voice and life of teaching Type from printing presses in 18 th century to speed creation and dissemination Digital and web to restore wide dissemination Evolution of Scholarly Communication

Main Campus - Washington, D.C. 131-acre Campus111 Buildings Subject Focus Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography, Meteorology, Space Sciences Remote Campuses Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval Research The Navy and Marine Corps’ Corporate Research Facility

NRL Research Library Strategic Plan VISION: “Your Partner in Research” MISSION: The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library exists to enhance & support NRL scientists in accomplishing their research objectives across a range of ongoing Navy and DoD programs through a mix of information services. GOALS: Providing access to all published information Building the NRL Digital Library Capturing the NRL research portfolio

Information Resources & Services Unit Providing access to all published information… Reference & Collection Management ServicesReference & Collection Management Services Journals & Reference ToolsJournals & Reference Tools Books & Conference ProceedingsBooks & Conference Proceedings Mediated & Authoritative SearchingMediated & Authoritative Searching

NRL Researcher Interactions

Journal Collection Evolution

Books & Conference Proceedings Books/Proceedings – 46,000 print titles eBooks – 16k (primarily IT / management) Looking to shift conference proceedings (SPIE, MRS, AIP, and IEEE) to online-only (approximately ¼ of book collection) RFID Deployment (first in Federal library)

Reference Tools/Services Print reference – 3,000 titles (Who’s Who, encyclopedia, handbooks, citation indexes, Chemical Abstracts, etc.) Online reference/databases – 3,000 titles (INSPEC, Web of Science, SciFinder, Scopus, Knovel, etc.) Citation/literature searches Training/orientation

Digital Library Development Unit Creating the NRL Digital Library… Infrastructure Deployment/SupportInfrastructure Deployment/Support COTS Technology CustomizationCOTS Technology Customization Web Services DevelopmentWeb Services Development Digital Content ManagementDigital Content Management

TORPEDO Ultra Digital Archive 2,200+ journals from 14 publishers 6,000 tech reports 5.4M+ articles locally loaded Full content search across journals & reports Integrated citation linking Convera RetrievalWare Concept Searching

Sources of TORPEDO Ultra Content Agency publications – NRL tech reports and press releases In-house digitizing projects – Cooperative efforts with AIP, APS, OSA, MRS Data licensed from publishers – Journals (AIP, APS, ASA, AMS, Cell Press, Elsevier, IEEE/IEE, IoP, Kluwer, MRS, OSA, RSC, Springer, Wiley) – Conference proceedings (IEEE, MRS) – Standards (IEEE)

Research Reports & Bibliography Unit Capturing the NRL Research portfolio… Technical ReportsTechnical Reports NRL Published Research ResultsNRL Published Research Results

Research Reports Print (unclassified and classified) – 600,000 reports Digitized (SIPRnet) – 200,000 reports Microfilm – 1.5M reports Focusing on digitizing all 80k NRL reports (currently have 30k digitized)

Open Access/Institutional Repositories Goal: To provide free access to all scholarly literature to enhance research Journal Focus: Changing journals to free public access through author fees or ‘brief’ embargo windows (Gold) Institution Focus: Capturing all pre- published literature created by an institution or on behalf of a funding body (Green)

Research Portfolio Management NIH’s second goal, after broadening access Applying ROI thinking into grant and research funding process Easy arguments in field of medicine May spread to other federal research granting institutions Will require a central body and repository to accept and track submissions

Government & Copyright Copyright status – Federal Employees – no copyright for official works (17 U.S.C §101 & 17 U.S.C §105) – Government Contractors – terms of contract – Collaborative Works – murky (17 U.S.C §201) Government Works – “A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties.” (17 USC 105) Unresolved Question – Is there copyright on the presentation of the work?

Capturing corporate knowledge