Research, IT

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Research, IT SFU Library

• Lynn Copeland
• IT Advanced Networks SymposiumMay 89, 2006

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Traditional Research Support

• Collections
• Document delivery
• Reciprocal borrowing (Canada-wide)
• Liaison librarian
• Faculty representative
• www.lib.sfu.ca/about/services/serv_faculty.htm

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Less Traditional Research Support (2)

• Current Awareness Services
• Recently arrived books awareness service
• Bibliographic Management Software Refworks,
  Citation Manager
• Reference services (email, online, in person)

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Non-traditional research support

• Supporting software
• Supporting distribution of scholarly research
• Providing an institutional repository for
  research outcomes
• Digitization

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SFU Library Software Development

• reSearcher
• Serials Management CUFTS
• Link Resolving, requesting GODOT
• Bibliographic Management Citation Manager gt
• Federated Searching dbWiz

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SFU Library Software Development

• PKP software
• Journal Publishing Management OJS
• Conference Organizing - OCS
• Metadata harvester
• Originally developed at UBC (John Willinksy)
• Now 3-way partnership
• (Willinsky, SFU Library, CCSP)

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PKP Open Journal System

• Provides open access publishing infrastructure
• Manages submissions, reviews, editing, etc.
• Reduces the cost of scholarly publishing
• Currently over 500 journals

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PKP Open Conference System

• Provides conference organizing infrastructure
• Web site, call for papers, submissions,
  registration, scheduling, etc.
• Reduces the cost of conference organizing
• V.2 under way

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PKP Metadata harvester

• Index creation for access to archives compatible
  with the OAI harvesting prototocol
• Acts as meta search
• Focusing issues surrounding metadata and resource
  discovery
• V.2 about to be released with significant
  improvements including searching gt

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The CARL Harvester

• http//carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca
• Hosted and managed by Simon Fraser University
  Library
• Content
• Journal articles, Learning objects
• Theses and dissertations, Photographs
• Images, Conference Papers
• Music scores, Data sets

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Open access to journals, IR content

• Faculty impact factor is increased
• Reduces reliance on for-profit increasingly
  concentrated journal publishers
• Increases access to the results of research
  beyond academia

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Growth of Institutional Repositories
Source Institutional Archives Registry
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SFU Institutional Repository

• Hosted by SFU Library
• Can provide ongoing access to SFUs scholarly
  output
• Articles, working papers, books, theses, data
  sets, computer programs, conference papers
• Existing content gt

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SFU Library digitization and online database
containers

• ContentDM
• Citation Manager
• BRS (for now)
• mySQL (for now)
• gt

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Questions?

• Lynn Copeland
• copeland_at_sfu.ca
• http//www.lib.sfu.ca

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• Bulk loading
• OCS feeds Dspace

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SFUs Institutional Repository
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Collection Digitization
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ContentDM
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• CUSTOM
• DIGITIZATION
• Canadiana.org fiche
• Quality digital copy
• ? Research project
• ? ECO

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Individual
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Public