<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Gerald Lawson, via the JISC-Repositories list. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Colleagues,<br>
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1. I presume that all repositories on this list have a library subscription to Web of Science (?), and hence have access to (some) real-time metadata from WoS webservices (<a href="http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/products/related/webservices/" target="_blank">http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/products/related/webservices/</a>)? Are many Institutional Repositories using this to pre-populate their repositories? How successful has this been? Are there EPrints or DSpace plugins to facilitate this?<br>
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2. Research Councils mandate that metadata on papers arising from our funding should be deposited in appropriate repositories. This includes funder and grantnumber information. Councils have not monitored compliance however - and many repositories do not have these fields - let alone have them fully populated. Since 2008 WoS has been 'mining' funder and grantnumber information from the acknowledgement sections of papers - but less than 30% of those providing a funder name also provide grantnumber - and without this is it difficult to match a multi-authored paper to a particular grantholder. Much editing/checking of this data is therefore needed. Would the following be workable - say from 1 Jan 2012 onwards?<br>
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a) Thompson Reuters are approached to include Funder and GrantNumber in their Web Services Lite package (they are currently only available in the premium version).<br>
b) IR packages provide plugins to facilitate access to the WoS/Scopus Web Services (Scopus will provide funder information 'from early 2012').<br>
c) Institutional Repositories are encouraged to use WoS/Scopus Web Services to complete any missing records AND to add Funder and GrantNumber fields.<br>
d) Research Councils ask grantholders to ensure that data in these two fields in their Institutional Repositories (or Thematic Repositories) are CORRECT.<br>
e) An appropriate repository aggregation services provides a faceted search of all [UK-based?] repositories and allows searches by both Funder (dc.contributor.sponsor) and GrantNumber (dc.identifier.grantnumber). The DC fields are the current EThOS standard (<a href="http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=47" target="_blank">http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=47</a>), but there is clearly a need to agree this with other standards agencies - e.g. Driver & Open-Aire. in the EU (what about the US?).<br>
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This is tentative proposal focused on the UK - but comments from anywhere on the feasibility/timescale would be welcome. For example the NSF/NIH Funding Dashboard (<a href="http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov/" target="_blank">http://rd-dashboard.nitrd.gov/</a>) makes heavy use of funder information from WoS - it would be interesting to know how mistakes/gaps in this can be corrected in the US?<br>
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Gerry Lawson, NERC Research Information Systems, 01793-444417 (o) 07740-068060 (m) <a href="mailto:gela@nerc.ac.uk">gela@nerc.ac.uk</a><br></div>