Presented by Joan Kolarik (Weizmann Institute, Israel) at the seminar "When Open Science Meets Big Data: Adjustment of Library Services" (Teldan Info: The 33rd Annual Conference & Exhibition on May, 16th 2018, Israel).

1. Division of Information Systems
LIBRARIES
Joan Kolarik
INFO 2018
Tel Aviv
16 May 2018

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 Weizmann Institute of Science
◦ Leading basic-research graduate institution
with faculties covering Biochemistry, Biology,
Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and
Computer Science
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Where?
Map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel)
 Nature LENS Survey (2017)
◦ “Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel (6) is the only
non-US institution in the top 10” *
◦ Looked at academic research influence on product and
service development and impact on innovation by examining
how research cited in 3rd-party patents
* Full list: Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, Rockefeller U in NY, MIT, U of Mass
Med School, U of TX SW Med Center, WIS, NIH, U of CA San Fran, Stanford U, Icahn
School of Med at Mount Sinai

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 Weizmann Libraries
◦ Tiny (10 professional staff)
◦ Shrinking physical presence and staff
◦ Growing electronic and digital presence
 Weizmann Publications Database, created in 2010
◦ MySQL (2010-2012)
◦ Aleph (2012-2017)
◦ Pure (2018- )
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Who? … What? …

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 Started as collaboration with a few scientists
 No upper management support
 >Year implementation, concurrent with Alma
 Pure live since January 2018
 Today, ~ 60,000 records (not all active)
 Be grateful if you’re just starting
◦ Our biggest migration problems
 pre-existing data
 pre-existing commitments
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Weizmann Publications Database

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 Legacy integrations
◦ Scientist pages
 http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/Geiger/
◦ Weizmann publications search (home > search categories)
 http://www.weizmann.ac.il/pages/search/publications
 New integrations
◦ Primo (discovery platform) / (SB)
 Open access repository, by scientist request
◦ ORCID (auto-update scientist publications)
◦ Portal (internal use only)
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Where Do We See the Database?

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 Easier, but still labor-intensive
 Harvest automatic
◦ BUT approval mediated = approve each new article
 Open access now supported!
◦ new content may be harvested (eg, Arxiv)
 Many new features:
◦ Datasets
◦ Grants
◦ News items
◦ ORCID
 A lot more work for the Library
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How Does the Magic Happen? Pure!

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 Easier, but still labor-intensive
 Harvest automatic
◦ BUT approval mediated = approve each new article
 Dedup = manual
◦ The system suggests, but a human must touch each
 Researcher buy-in – still a problem after all these years
 Person identification
◦ Solution = ORCID (far from universal)
 Open Access identification
◦ Past pre- and post-print – need researcher to provide
◦ Old database, new function - links aren’t even always full text
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What are the Problems?
Remember,
we’re tiny!

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 Mostly reactive
◦ Cleanup – author names, missing abstracts, author list
◦ New sources (Arxiv, Scopus, …) answer researcher needs
 Building a fan-base
◦ Usually one-on-one, goal department- or lab-level
◦ Target deans, increase management support
 Ongoing development of new features
◦ HR integration
◦ Open access solution - OpenAire
◦ ORCID integration
 Ongoing learning about what the researchers need
◦ For example, FP7 vs H2020
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Selling the Service

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What’s in Your Future?

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Objectives and Use Cases
https://dev.elsevier.com/ir_cris_vivo.html

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 Reading
◦ Salo, D. (2013). How to Scuttle a Scholarly
Communication Initiative. Journal of Librarianship and
Scholarly Communication. Vol. 1(4), p. eP1075. DOI:
http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1075
 Don’t plan
 Be vague
 Fixate on a specific software solution
 And more…
 Questions
◦ Naomi.Conforti@weizmann.ac.il
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Recommendations

12. Thank You
Joan Kolarik
Chief Librarian
The Weizmann Institute of Science
joan.kolarik@weizmann.ac.il
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Haber Library
circa 1950
Weizmann Institute