[Asis-l] Open Access Citation Information, JISC report

[Steve Hitchcock]

A proposal is to increase the exposure of open access materials and their 
references to indexing services, and to motivate new services by reducing 
setup costs, is contained in a report commissioned and published by the 
JISC Committee for the Information Environment (JCIE) Scholarly 
Communications Group:

Rachel Hardy, Charles Oppenheim, Tim Brody, and Steve Hitchcock
Open Access Citation Information, September 2005 (105pp)
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11536/

Following consultation with key experts and stakeholders, the proposal 
recommends a means for the capture and validation of well-structured 
reference metadata at the point of deposit in institutional repositories, 
and the presentation of this data to harvesting services for citation indexes.

The JCIE is considering whether to adopt the proposal and what follow-up 
action to take.

The wider picture the report investigates is how institutional repositories 
can be harvested by these and other Web citation indexing services to 
measure and exploit the increased impact we believe is happening through 
open access:
The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a 
bibliography of studies
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Steve Hitchcock
IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: sh94r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256    Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865


At 09:41 11/11/2005, Linda Humphreys wrote:
>There are still a few places left for the JIBS User Group AGM and meeting 
>on 23rd November at Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London.
>
>***Booking closes on Monday 14th November***
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>Battle of the Giants: a comparison of Web of Knowledge, Scopus and Google 
>Scholar.
>
>1.30 - 2.00     JIBS User Group AGM
>
>2.00 - 2.05     Welcome from Chair
>Gary Horrocks, Research and Learning Liaison Manager, Kings College London
>
>2.05 - 2.30     Searching for science: a comparison of WoK and Scopus
>Linda Humphreys, Science Faculty Librarian, University of Bath
>
>2.30 - 2.55     Web of Knowledge
>Simon Pratt and Julia Hawks, Thompson Scientific
>
>2.55 - 3.20     Tea
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>3.20 - 3.45     Scopus: built by users for users
>Ginny Hendricks, Marketing Manager, Elsevier and Amanda Hart, Regional 
>Sales Manager, EMEA, Elsevier
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>3.45 - 4.10     Pros and Cons of Google Scholar
>Roger Mills, Biosciences and Environmental Sciences Librarian, University 
>of Oxford
>
>4.10 - 4.30     Discussion
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>Many Institutions are currently looking closely at these products with a 
>view to informing users of their relative strengths and weaknesses.  We 
>hope that this meeting will provide a useful opportunity to gather this 
>information together and to share our experience of these products.
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>The meeting is FREE to members of the JIBS User Group or 30 GBP to 
>non-members.  To find out if your Institution is a member, please see our 
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