This presentation has been presented at the Library Connect Congress, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province China, 2013, 17-19 june. The subject is how the university libraries can help to spread the digital identity of the university researchers

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The university library as a support for the
institutional research identity
Pelayo García-Fernández
Mª Luisa Álvarez-de-Toledo
2013, 17-19 june
Nanchang, Jiangxi Province
University of Oviedo. Central Library

2. The university library as a support for the institutional research identity – Table of Contents
The university library as a support for the institutional research identity.
1) The Spaniard universities.
2) The University of Oviedo and its regional
scope.
3) The University of Oviedo on Scopus.
4) Changes at the university library.
5) Changes in the transmission of
knowledge.
6) What are doing the librarians.
7) Scientific globalisation.
8) Scientific globalisation and identity.
9) Identity and web visibility 1.
10) Identity and web visibility 2 .
11) Researchers and authors. Who are they?
12) Identity means precision.
13) Identity accuracy can enhance
researchers’ analysis.
14) Identities, profiles and the Shanghai
Ranking.
15) An important task: reviewing the
profiles.
16) Scientific production – Identities.
17) An example: from Scopus to Repository.
18) Identifiying by data. Semantic web.
19) Metadata 1.
20) Metadata 2.
21) Identifiying and linking scientific data.
22) Researching identity and search engines. SEO.
23) Open Access: it helps spreading science.
24) ORCID 1.
25) ORCID 2.
26) The library task about “scientific identities”.
27) Spreading researchers identities: blogs.
28) Spreading researchers identities: Facebook.
29) Spreading researchers identities: Twitter.
30) Identity = Visibility.
Table of Contents

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The Spaniard universities.
They are mainly old, traditional institutions; very different from American universities.
Financed by
public funds.
Massive universities.
Not specialized.
They don´t have enough
business links.

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University of Oviedo. Regional Scope.
Decentralisation: 7 campus in 3 different towns.
25.000 students. 2.000 teachers.
Principality of Asturias 1 M. Inhabitants. Surface: 10,604 km²
Decentralisation: 14 library centres with a central coordination.

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The University of Oviedo at Scopus.

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The University Library has changed over time, but not its aims.
• From paper to electronic information. Rules and systems to communicate information.
• Librarians have always worked with data. Now data simply come from other
sources.
• Librarians have always worked producing standarised information. Now we just
have to implement new standards.
• Librarians have always worked organizing information for our community. Now we
simply arrange the information on a global network.

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The ways of transmitting knowledge have changed worldwide.
Siku Quanshu
Complete Library of the Four Treasuries

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What are the librarians doing?
Libraries need people with expertise and learning ability.
Updating and permanently training ourselves to work with new databases, standards,
tools 2.0, semantic web, scientific SEO…
Team work. Cooperation with other services. Participation online.
Helping students, faculty staff and researchers.
Helping the Research Office.
Promoting and spreading scientific papers.
Promoting our researchers.
We need to work about these aims on the web, in order to obtain global knowledge
about our university.

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Scientific globalization.
Which indicators can help researchers with their
national evaluations?
Librarians help to know all this.
Who are the best researchers and where are they
publishing? Impact factor, SJR, H-index.
Many people find the knowledge through
international databases: Scopus, Science
Direct, WOS.
From national and local publications on paper
to the need of publishing in international
electronic journals with global spread.
What are the best institutions and where are they
publishing? Impact factor, SJR, H-index. Rankings.
Important questions

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Scientific globalisation and scientific identity.
Nowadays, our researchers are having
problems to look for their identity on the
net: “Who am I?”
Our researchers need help with their
profiles: “What are my codes?”
The researcher's identity on databases is
made through profiles and IDs.
Some important librarian roles are:
Elaborating analysis and reports about the identification of authors and institutions,
solving problems, proposing solutions and making signing rules for the academic staff.
From national identity to global identity.

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Online visibility of our identity 1.
Example: an author profile on Scopus.

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Online visibility of our identity 2.
Example: an institution profile on Academic Search.

13. Another important librarian task is to write institutional reports so
they can be consulted by departments, research groups and
independent researchers with their scientific production data.
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Researchers and scientific authors. Who are they?
How is an author linked when their name is
not clear enough. Examples:
That is why researches aren't often able to find their
scientific papers and their profiles.
How does a scientific author's
name appear on databases?
Perhaps their name is not clear
enough.
Tian N.
Zhou ZY
Sung SG
Ding Y
Wang ZL

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Identity means precision.
We must identify and review author and institutions:
• Precisely and periodically.
• On a regular basis.
Ding Y

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Identity precision allows analysis improvement.
Scival analysis tools and Scopus profiles : Scival Strata and Scival Spotlight are
sometimes based on the researches or institutions profiles.
Ex: Scival Spotlight.
Rankings - Competencies.
Institutions.
Ex: Scival Strata.
Comparative analysis.
Researchers.

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Identity, profiles and Shanghai Ranking.
Essential scientific indicators.
Highly cited researchers
1) Creating Researcher IDs at
Thomson Reuters for our highly
cited authors.
2) Searching and attributing their
publications on WOS.
What we must do from the Library:

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An important task: reviewing profiles.
Why Scopus in the first
place?
It is the most widely
used and known
database.
We are performing
some sessions about
digital identity for the
research staff.
We are writing some
recommendations
about signing and
affiliations.

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Scientific production is important for identity.
All the Spaniard
universities must write, on
a yearly basis, an official
report about their
researching activities. To
carry it out, the input data
about research papers is
necessary.
As visibility online is a very
important matter, we have
decided to load all the data
on our Institutional
Repository, an open
standard electronic online
archive.
Reseach Report
The Library
Search for Data
Institutional
Repository
Researchers
Reviewing
Adding
Institutional
Repository

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An example: from Scopus to Repository.
1. Collect publications with an "institutional affiliation" (University of Oviedo)
on bibliographic databases. Not only on Scopus, but also on the Science
Web, Medline, IEEE, Wiley and Spaniard databases.
2. Import Bulk Data of publications, including DOI.
3. Store, review, delete any duplicate and standardise all kind of data: Titles of
journals, authors, years, etc.
4. Convert data into metadata for DSpace Repository.
5. Uploade these data to Repository by an automatic process.
6. Standardise names, titles of journals and other data.
Process

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Identifying with data. Semantic web.
Metadata for Institutional Repository: Dublin Core Metadata; RDF
Authors' metadata: It is essential that authors are perfectly identified.
The role of libraries: Elaborating and creating metadata.
Current trend:
Open and linked data.
Linking authors' identifications on ScopusID to other identifications:
ORCID; Researcher ID; VIAF.
VIAF
Virtual International
Authorities File

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The result of metadata 1.
The role of libraries:
Elaborating and creating metadata.
Publications titles Authors‘ namesDates

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The result of metadata 2.
The role of libraries:
Elaborating and creating metadata.
Link to original papers by DOI

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Identifying and linking scientific documents online.
The importance of linking original published documents.
Not all the articles will be available to
be read with their full content online
for free.
The importance of DOI for unidentified documents.
Precisely linked authors and documents.
Authors codes.
But, at least, authors and publications data
will be displayed online in an open and
standardized way.

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The researching identity oriented to the results of search engines.
Institutions also need an identity.
It is necessary to have a personal identity for each researcher.
It is necessary to spread and
promote it online.
This identity requires being reviewed, standardized and linked.
The institutional identity influences the authors identity, and viceversa.
Authors and institutions and departments are linked online.
Identity belongs to the team and to each member of that team

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Open Access helps spread researcher identity.
Open Access facilitates online visibility
Open Access is currently used in a large amount of scientific journals.
The Open Access changes the way of
financing the journals.
http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-options
Institutions shall promote and
finance Open Access.
The University library is constantly working
and informing about all
the issues related to Open Access.

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Identity, profiles and ORCID 1.
• ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and
maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent
method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.
• ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research
sectors, and national boundaries and in its cooperation with other
identifier systems.
• ORCID works with the research community to identify opportunities for
integrating ORCID identifiers in key workflows, such as research
profile maintenance, manuscript submissions, grant applications, and
patent applications.
Distinguishing your research activities from
those of others with similar name

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Identity, profiles and ORCID 2.
• The University of Oviedo is an institutional member of ORCID+ Early Adopter.
• We make the ORCID for our academic researchers by an institutional way.
• Bulk loading data, for which it was necessary an API; our API for ORCID
is made by GrandIR.

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Library works about identities.
In project: Linking with curriculum vitae.
Reviewing Scopus
profiles
Early adopter ORCID.
Making ORCIDs for its
researchers
Making and reviewing
Researcher IDs
(Thomson –Reuters)
Linking IDs with ORCID
Linking with the
Institutional Repository
Library

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Spreading the research identity: blogs.
Examples from the blog,
the library and the
research identity.
Diffusion of authors,
works and images.
Detailed explanations
and incorporation of
audiovisuals.
Tags, links, descriptio
ns.

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Spreading the research identity: Facebook
The library keeps in touch
with other spreading
channels. It is just another
way of promotion, in addition
to the official one.
Facebook spreads
the information
better than a blog.

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Spreading the research identity: Twitter.
Brief notes about
the researcher’s
activity in our
university.
Links to the
researchers
works online.
This resource is
currently
spreading quickly

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Identity = Visibility.
The university library has this goal.
Sharing, 2.0. SEO
Semantic Web
Spreading university research
Having the profiles control
Collecting research works
Institutional
identity

33. The university library as a support for the institutional research identity – THE END
The university library as a support for the
institutional research identity.
Pelayo García-Fernández
Mª-Luisa Álvarez-de-Toledo
2013, 17-19 junio
Nanchang, Jiangxi Province
Thanks for you attention.