Research, IT & SFU Library

1. Research, IT & SFU Library Lynn Copeland IT & Advanced Networks SymposiumMay 8–9, 2006

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

3. Less Traditional Research Support (2) • Current Awareness Services • Recently arrived books; awareness service • Bibliographic Management SoftwareRefworks, Citation Manager • Reference services (email, online, in person)

4. Non-traditional research support • Supporting software • Supporting distribution of scholarly research • Providing an institutional repository for research outcomes • Digitization

5. SFU Library Software Development reSearcher • Serials Management: CUFTS • Link Resolving, requesting: GODOT • Bibliographic Management: Citation Manager > • Federated Searching: dbWiz

6. 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)

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

8. 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

9. 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 >

10. 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

11. 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

12. Growth of Institutional Repositories Source: Institutional Archives Registry

13. SFU 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 >

14. SFU Library digitization and online database ‘containers’ • ContentDM • Citation Manager • BRS (for now) • mySQL (for now) >

15. Questions? Lynn Copeland copeland@sfu.ca http://www.lib.sfu.ca

18. Bulk loading: OCS feeds Dspace

19. SFU’s Institutional Repository

23. Collection Digitization

24. ContentDM

31. CUSTOM DIGITIZATION Canadiana.org fiche • Quality digital copy •  Research project •  ECO

32. Individual

33. Public