Harvesting the Academic Landscape: Streamlining the Ingestion of Professional Scholarship Metadata into the Institutional Repository

Bull, Jonathan; Schultz, Teresa

doi:10.7710/2162-3309.2201

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“…The flawed semi-automated metadata collection techniques used by vendors and publishers could omit the core information of academic products (Flynn, 2013). For instance, Bull and Schultz (2018) revealed that the lack of ISSNs as standard metadata causes librarians to be unable to determine the status of access restrictions. Demetrescu et al (2018) investigated author names' accuracy status as reported in bibliographic records.…”

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A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

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Publications without authorship information have been indexed as anonymous in the Web of Science database over the years. However, discussions on this subject have not been sufficiently addressed in the scholarly literature. Since bibliometrics studies are widely used for bibliometricians, scientific disciplines, science policy, and management, missing significant data as authorship metadata characterizes a gray zone that directly impacts these three components, and by extension, for bibliometrics and scientometrics. With a data collection performed at Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), 1,420,842 documents under "anonymous" authorship from 1900 to 2021 were retrieved, which accounted for 1.5% of the total documents indexed in the WoSCC. The publication data such as yearly growth of research publications, document type, language, productive research areas, and other bibliometric indicators were analyzed. The findings showed that in absolute numbers, a considerable growth of anonymous publications between 1996 and 2009, and there was a downward trend after that. However, this increase has not been proportional to the growth in the total number of publications indexed in the WoSCC. Articles, editorial materials, and news items were the top three document types among the WoSCC-indexed publications as anonymous. This study also finds two main scenarios of indexing publications as anonymous. The first is associated with the historical context of scholarly communication and practices that persist. The second is characterized by indexing persistent problems. This study suggests minimizing the error in databases, enabling an error-free indexing system and accurate bibliometrics studies.

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A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

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“…This practice can lead to inconsistent RDM procedures, thus highlighting the importance of training in best practices. Faculty may also need training in introductory RDM skills, but they have additional needs for higher level training because they are usually the ones who set up the project initially and are responsible for data deposit and sharing (Shen, 2016;Bull & Schultz, 2018).…”

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Research Data Management needs assessment of Clemson University

Sheffield¹,

Burton

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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Research data management (RDM) encompasses a wide range of activities that include documenting and managing data during a research project, as well as sharing and preserving data after the research project is completed.  Academic libraries can offer a variety of services that support researchers during the research life cycle which vary among institutions.   The faculty, staff, and graduate students of Clemson University were surveyed by Clemson Libraries about their research data management (RDM) needs in the spring of 2021.  The survey was based on previous surveys from 2012 and 2016 to allow for comparison, but language was updated and additional questions added because the field of RDM has evolved.  Survey findings indicated researchers are overall more likely to back up and share their data, but the process of cleaning and preparing the data for sharing was an obstacle.  Few researchers reported including metadata when sharing, or consulting the library for help writing a Data Management Plan (DMP).  Researchers want RDM resources, and offering and effectively marketing those resources will enable libraries to both support researchers and encourage best practices. Understanding researcher needs and offering time-saving services and convenient training options makes following RDM best practices easier for researchers.  Communicating how RDM benefits researchers and integrating RDS into the research life cycle through partnerships is crucial for ensuring effective data management.

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“…Most faculty were unable to produce versions of their work (pre-prints) other than the publisher's PDF, which many publishers restrict from upload into a repository" (p. 9). Bull and Schultz (2018) focused on a process to semiautomate the collection of new works of research produced by faculty to help IR ingest sustainability and to hedge against what they considered stagnation and inability to capture an institution's scholarly content. They presented an example of a workflow designed to aid IRs and associated services to transition "from a pilot phase or a post-pilot stagnation phase to the use of a fully operational metadata archiving service" (Bull and Schultz, 2008, p. 2).…”

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Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories to Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots on Including Metadata-Only Records

Bjork

Cummings-Sauls

Otto

2019

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Institutional repository managers are continuously looking for new ways to demonstrate the value of their repositories. One way to do this is to create a more inclusive repository that provides reliable information about the research output produced by faculty affiliated with the institution. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM This article details two pilot projects that evaluated how their repositories could track faculty research output through the inclusion of metadata-only (no full-text) records. The purpose of each pilot project was to determine the feasibility and provide an assessment of the long-term impact on the repository’s mission statement, staffing, and collection development policies. NEXT STEPS This article shares the results of the pilot project and explores the impact for faculty and end users as well as the implications for repositories.

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Harvesting the Academic Landscape: Streamlining the Ingestion of Professional Scholarship Metadata into the Institutional Repository

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

A grey zone for bibliometrics: publications indexed in Web of Science as anonymous

Research Data Management needs assessment of Clemson University

Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories to Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots on Including Metadata-Only Records

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