This document summarizes two research profiling and preservation tools: Focus on Research and T-Space. Focus on Research allows faculty to create online research profiles highlighting publications and activities. It integrates with other websites and includes tools to import publications. T-Space is an institutional repository that allows scholars to preserve and distribute research in various digital formats with persistent access. The two tools work together, with Focus populating research profiles and T-Space archiving full-text works. They provide benefits like increased access, citation rates, and preservation of scholarly output for faculty and the university community.

1. Focus on Research
and T-Space :
Tools for promoting and preserving
your research

2. Overview
• What are Focus on Research
and T-Space?
• Tour of the web sites
• How Focus and T-Space work together

3. Focus on Research
• Web- based research gateway for faculty to:
• create and promote research profiles
• highlight your research publications and activities
• Features:
• easy tools for creating profiles and importing
publications
• integration to put Focus data into other web sites
• links to full text, tag clouds, co-authors, research time
lines
• BibApp software framework
• Open source: Ruby on Rails, Java, lucene, SOLR,
MySQL:
• Developed by U Illinois UC and U Wisconsin Madison

4. Focus on
Research
home page

5. Focus on
Research
faculty page

6. Focus on
Research
works page

10. Focus on
Research
group page

12. Benefits for faculty
• Easy to make attractive research profiles
• Others can find your profiles through
– Focus website
– RSS feeds in other websites
– Google search
• You can self-manage your profile

13. Benefits to community
• Helps researchers to find collaborators
• Helps students to find mentors
• Enables departments to profile all of their
scholarly output.

14. Institutional Partnerships
• University of Toronto Office of Research:
– tracks and promotes university research & researchers
– lots of data, but needs strong framework for it all
• Library:
– Focus on Research + T-Space + catalogue
= strong framework for discovery and preservation
– Needs lots of data for this framework
• Variety of models to assist faculty in creating profiles:
– Liaison librarians; library staff; work-study students;
administrative assistants
• Together we hope to build a strong researcher tool

15. But what about…
• Web-based CV tools
– Different, but intersecting purpose
– Connect the tools: one data entry, multiple
uses
• Faculty profiles on departmental web sites
– Can use Focus data to feed departmental
profiles
– Rich tool set behind the Focus information

16. Integration with
T-Space:
Our institutional
research repository

17. T-Space
• Web- based institutional research repository that allows:
– Scholars to transmit and preserve their research
– Library to capture, preserve and distribute university’s scholarly
output
• Features:
– Tools for importing, managing, and harvesting data
– Accepts many digital formats: documents, presentations,
spreadsheets, image, sound, data, etc.
• Status
– In production since 2003
– Contains 28,500 documents including 9,400 theses

18. Benefits for faculty
• Stable, permanent home for research
– in self-defined communities
– choose access: U of T-only or world accessible
• Easy and increased access to research
– persistent URLs (DOIs)
– preferential Google indexing
– citation rates typically increase dramatically
• Assurance that research will be preserved
– commitment to migration and refreshment
(formats)
– stable institutional servers

20. Focus
document
page

21. T-Space
corresponding
document
page

22. Contact
Sarah Forbes
focus@library.utoronto.ca
416-946-0114
http://focus.library.utoronto.ca

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IMPACT FACTORS
January 28 | 4-5 pm | UTSC Instructional Centre, IC 302
January 29 | 4-5 pm | Gerstein Science Information
Centre, Alice Moulton Room
January 30 | 4-5 pm | UTM Library, T-Room