Open Access Scholarly Databases Hanoi December 10, 2007 Professor Peter Jacso Department of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii

TOPICS The OA Initiatives and Movements The Layers of OA The Players in OA OA Book collections OA Conference Proceedings OA Periodicals OA Dissertations OA Indexing and Abstracting Databases OA Full Text Databases OA Directories and Statistical Databases OA Sources about OA Jacso

I know many of you had interesting workshops in various Learning Resource Centers across Vietnam JacsoBorrowed for fair use from Terry Plum And more fun time And fun time By Terry Plum and Pat Oyler

And I hope this session will be for use and fun after all we are discussing OPEN ACCESS which is > then free access Jacso

Open Access Initiatives and Movements Fusion of tradition & high-tech free & permanent online (Web) access for any user, anywhere to full-text scholarly materials Jacso

Budapest Open Access Initiative Jacso

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge Jacso

Stevan Harnad Jacso

Peter Suber Jacso

THE ROADS TO OPEN ACCESS - (Harnads terminology) Golden Road (born/converted to be free) Green Road (authors allowed to archive & post post- print version) Light Green Road (authors have right to archive pre- print version) Jacso

- THE ROADS TO OPEN ACCESS (Harnads terminology) Systematic by journal Ad-hoc by articles Mandated OA by employers, funding organizations), government (!) Volunteered by publisher Self-archived by individuals Jacso

MAJOR TYPES of OA DIGITAL COLLECTIONS Institutional repositories (Univ of Southampton) Topical (subject) repositories - (DLIST, eLIS) Personal repositories (Eugene Garfield) Publishers and digital facilitators collections Immediate OA Delayed OA (moratorium 3-24 months) Out of copyright collections (Live Windows Books) Selective open access (Google Books) Jacso

Layers of OA (my opinion, no declaration) Partially open access (hundred millions of bibliographic records with abstracts) Not just peer-reviewed research journals but also professional journals (Online, Searcher, etc.) – but here it is not mandated Not just journals but also books, conference proceedings, encyclopedias, etc. Jacso

Free or feels like free Vietnams natural beauties - for the natives Subsidized databases for Vietnamese LRCs in Can Tho Hue Da Nang Thai Nguyen Jacso Through By

Hawaii HSPLS card carrying member Hawaii DOE students Hawaii private school students Hawaiiprivate college and university students UHstudents, faculty & staff UH LISstudents through yours truly Free or feels like free in Hawaii Jacso

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Open Access (OA) is here to stay … and grow OA > Free (for whom, for how long, from where?) OA is universally free (for anyone, from anywhere, at anytime) May be a subset of, mixed with non-OA May have limits in retrospectivity and currency You can browse, search, display substantial info Digital D-i-v-i-d-e alliterates nicely - but it is just not true Jacso

The time is ripe Best ways to promote implementation of OA talk and write about the variety in HICs & LICs use and show em to prove their instant benefits Digital (& wireless) make the world go round Digital & wireless & OA make information go round the world OA information & Open Source Software make the perfect pair for OA databases Jacso

The success of Open Source SW & affordable infrastructure Global success of CDS/ISIS family (MicroISIS, WinISIS, GenISIS, JavaISIS, WWW-ISIS) Eprints, Greenstone DL, Dspace Jacso Plummeting hardware costs (and sizes), affordable infrastructure

Widely available financial support International agencies, non-profits, charities UNxxx, FAO, WHO, Cornell, Harvard, NISC, Wellcome Trust, Soros Foundation, INASP, Human Info NGO Jacso

Digital U-n-i-t-e When you see and use Open Access Indexing Indexing & Abstracting (I&A) Full-text (FT) Directory Numerical-statistical Geographic-cartographic Multimedia (image, audio and video) databases Jacso

What is available OA? Ask what is not available Finding tools (catalogs, I&A databases, directories) Primary documents Books Journal articles Conference papers Government reports Technical Manuals Theses and dissertations Statistics, censuses, surveys Maps, photos, drawings Audio and video recordings Encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, almanacs, reviews Jacso

I &A Databases Jacso

Government + International Organizations Providers – I/A databases Jacso

Associations Providers – Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets + many others Jacso

Volunteers Publishers Providers – Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets + many others Jacso

Providers - Abstracts + I/A databases/subsets Facilitators Web-born entrepreneurs Traditional Information Services Jacso

Closest to your heart Jacso All records in the LISTA database (as of mid-November, 2007)

FT Databases/subsets Jacso

The largest multidisciplinary OA subset Jacso

Toxoplasmosis search in HWP Jacso

Largest OA FT Collections Jacso

The World of OA Full-Text / FT Subsets Providers - Government Associations Volunteers + Jacso

Publishers - The World of OA Full-Text / FT Subsets Providers Facilitators Others Jacso

OA Books Jacso

OA Theses & Dissertations Jacso

OA Ready Reference Collections Jacso

Special Subsidized Access for the 68 LICs + almost OA for 45 others Generous publishers Participation based on GNP per capita; <$1,000 group and $1,000-$3,000 group Check if your country is qualified and registered Jacso

Does Vietnam qualify for special HINARI/AGORA deal? Absolutely – go for it, no, run for it – NOW Jacso

HINARI Jacso

AGORA Jacso

Most OA – supporting countries USA UK Canada Australia New Zealand Japan Brazil India Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) For Sleeping Beauty HICs and struggling LICs alike Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) Jacso

Best examples, best practices (a.k.a. role models) Jacso

OA databases of India Jacso

What full-text is free ? News items Selective feature articles All articles from 199x to Today + ….month(s) Everything Web-borne vs Web-born journals - Jacso

FREE for ….. Ever (?) A week A month Temporarily Ever (after 6-12 month moratorium) Jacso

Emerald Journal(s) of the week Jacso

Sage Jacso

LISTA Database Jacso

Vietnam in the title Jacso

Vietnamese in the title Jacso

Vietnam OR Vietnamese in the title Jacso

With Vietnam* somewhere in the title, abstract, descriptor and in… – 1,819 times Jacso

Vietnam* in all the text in nearly 1,000 records with FULL TEXT Jacso

How many records with open access Jacso

How many available in full text? Jacso

How many records with yours trulys name? Jacso

How many in OA full text? Jacso

And now …about Google Scholar (GS) Jacso

The Myth GS is the alpha and the omega of OA sources I dont need no nothing with GS at my fingertip-attitude GS personality cult GS is the smartest GS is my best friend GS for president GS for People magazine cover GS for TIME Magazine Person of the Year GS for citedness and impact factor Jacso

The Reality Secrecy about sources Secrecy about journals Secrecy about time span Secrecy about size Secrecy about everything Huge gaps in collections crawled from partners archives No crawling binge allowed by Elsevier, ACS, and ….. Good for the casual search, for the undergrad students, but not for the real scholars Information Professionals beware of your reputation Jacso

Reality Check Check it for yourself Jacso I will update it soon. Use under Firefox not IE !

Check out my short picture-book for GS Innumeracy & GS Illiteracypicture-book Jacso

Some Jacso Surprising Sample Searches SSSS

Google Scholar Jacso

Google Scholars Basic Boolean Blunder

GS advanced template Jacso

Wow, how many items with Vietnam in the title alone ….

… Even if GS shows only the first 1,000, or 995 or less Jacso

So lets search for Vietnam OR Vietnamese (GS cant truncate) Jacso

How can it be fewer with using OR? Why did it drop from 134,000 to 43,400? Why did it loose 70% of its hits? Because GS cant tell the truth. GS is partially illiterate and innumerate and less then sincere Jacso

After Boolean OR the set decreases to 32% of the original Jacso

DO USE & ENJOY Google Scholar but dont believe its hit numbers and citedness scores even if it seems to see the future and tell what will be published and how many hundred times they were already cited Jacso

by papers published years ago Jacso

Actually 2008 is not a publication year but a page number and in other cases a part of the ISSN, a phone number, a ZIP code or anything that is four digit Jacso

Google Scholar sees farther in the future Jacso

Cited by papers published in the 1990s already Jacso

The GS hit counts are typically inflated - but authors and co-authors have interesting names Jacso

… and so are the citation counts which could ease my pain for my misspelled name If they were true Jacso Even if that 4 is only 3 – or just 1

DC Field (=Dublin Core field) a.k.a Meghan Lafferty in April, 2004 did not & could not quote my Google Scholar review as Google Scholar was introduced in November, 2004 and my review published in December, 2004 Jacso

GS suggests authors on the topic - thank you Jacso

Google Scholar explains how to use the author names Jacso

…. and explains many other things Jacso

Who is cited & what is cited? Who is R. Card? Cited only 4 times in 6 years? STD article in Circulation Jacso

Oh, this is advertising circulation data And this is the journal name Jacso Oh, this is advertising circulation data

Google Scholar often finds the most hits Jacso

and points out who are the most productive authors on the topic Jacso

Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso

- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso

- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections - Jacso

- Latest metasearch tools for partially Open Access publishers collections Jacso

The Low Profile but useful CrossRef service Jacso

OA Resources to keep up with OA – Jacso Green and Pale Green Journals

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