Research, IT & SFU LibraryResearch, IT & SFU Library
Lynn Copeland
IT & Advanced Networks SymposiumMay 8–9, 2006
Traditional Research SupportTraditional Research Support
Collections Document delivery Reciprocal borrowing (Canada-wide)
Liaison librarian Faculty representative
www.lib.sfu.ca/about/services/serv_faculty.htm
Less Traditional Research Support (2)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)
Non-traditional research supportNon-traditional research support
Supporting software Supporting distribution of scholarly
research Providing an institutional repository for
research outcomes Digitization
SFU Library Software DevelopmentSFU Library Software Development
reSearcher Serials Management: CUFTS Link Resolving, requesting: GODOT Bibliographic Management: Citation
Manager > Federated Searching: dbWiz
SFU Library Software DevelopmentSFU 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)
PKP Open Journal SystemPKP Open Journal System
Provides open access publishing infrastructure Manages submissions, reviews, editing, etc. Reduces the cost of scholarly publishing Currently over 500 journals
PKP Open Conference SystemPKP 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
PKP Metadata harvesterPKP 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 >
The CARL HarvesterThe CARL Harvester
http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca Hosted and managed by Simon Fraser
University Library Content:
Journal articles, Learning objectsTheses and dissertations, PhotographsImages, Conference PapersMusic scores, Data sets
Open access to journals, IR contentOpen 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
Growth of Institutional Repositories
Source:Institutional Archives Registry
SFU Institutional RepositorySFU Institutional Repository
Hosted by SFU Library Can provide ongoing access to SFU’s
scholarly output– Articles, working papers, books, theses,
data sets, computer programs, conference papers…
Existing content >
SFU Library digitization and online database ‘containers’SFU Library digitization and online database ‘containers’
ContentDM Citation Manager BRS (for now) mySQL (for now)
>
Bulk loading:OCS feeds Dspace
SFU’s Institutional Repository
Collection Digitization
ContentDM
CUSTOM
DIGITIZATION
Canadiana.org ficheQuality digital copy Research project ECO
Individual
Public