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Improving staff and student library relations at Wageningen University Wouter Gerritsma, Information specialist Wageningen UR Library
Pre-amble
This powerpoint is available at:
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More information on the topics to be presented can be found at my blog:
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Introductions
Myself Information specialist plant sciences at
Wagenigen UR library Research evaluation Library 2.0
Information professional of the year 2007 Wowter.net was selected as Péter’s picks in
Online magazine Jul./Aug. 2009
Wordle tagcloud of my delicious account
Photo credits: 芒果人
Introducing Wageningen UR
My employer Agricultural college established in 1876
Agr. Research stations were spinned off Wageningen's attained the status of an
institute of higher education in 1918 Wageningen University and research stations
merged to form Wageningen UR in 1998 Wageningen University and Van Hall
Larenstein University of Applied Sciences merged in 2003
Size of Wageningen UR
Students Staff (FTE)
University 5617 2335
Research institutes 2801
Polytechnic 3791 388
9408 7016
Wageningen is an international University
EC countries 421
Other European countries 23
Africa 162
Asia 409
Americas 94
Total 1108
Life Sciences at Wageningen UR
Wageningen UR for quality of life Food and food production Living environment Health, lifestyle and livelihood
The library
Concentration to a single physical library Innovative team
And our users Information junkies
Who are our users?
Students Teachers Researchers External clients
Information literacy to reach out to students
Information literacy Integrated in discipline oriented courses
First year introductory course Third year refresher & deepening
MSc students optional Highly recommended for 'foreign' MSc students
Information literacy for PhD students
2 day course information literacy 1 day introduction ½ day EndNote course ½ day Consultation homework under guidance
of a subject librarian
Teachers
Not our primary target We liaise with selected
teachers for introductory courses “information literacy”
All teachers are researchers themselves
Researchers
They know their way to the digital library already
They are little aware of all the services the library offers
We have to find opportunities to engage them
Research evaluation is such an occasion
Research evaluation in the Netherlands
Based on a 6 year cycle Supervised by Quality Assurance Netherlands
Universities (QANU) Each 6 years external international peer review Each 3 years internal mid term review Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP)
http://www.knaw.nl/sep
SEP protocol
Quality Productivity Societal relevance Vitality and feasibility
What role does the library play?
Productivity of a group is extracted from databases maintained by library
Bibliometric analyses are input to assess the research quality Bibliometric analysis is not stipulated in the
(national) SEP! • In Wageningen included as additional requirement
Advanced bibliometric indicators are now standardly implemented on our repository
My article has been cited 22 times!
But was does it mean?
Image: www.rcac.net.au
How do we compare numbers?
Scientist Z. Math has a publication from 1998 with 17 citations
Scientist M. Biology has a publication from 2006 with 24 citations
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Dicke, M. Agrawal, A.A. Bruin, J. (2003) Plants talk, but are they deaf? Trends in Plant Science 8 (9):403 - 405.Times cited: 44 times
Trends in Plant Science (from journals menu ESI)Plant & Animal Science
Baseline data (from ESI)Article from 2003 in Plant & Animal Science:
Average: 8.56 citations top 10%: 20 citations, top 1%: 65 citations
Crown Indicator = 44 / 8.56 = 5.14
Other bibliometric indicators
Number or percentage of highly cited articles, i.e. top 10% or top 1% most cited articles
Number or percentage of uncited articles H-index (g-index etc…)
Balancing productivity and citedness
Differences with the CWTS approach (van Raan c.s.)
Normalization per publication type We can’t normalize per publication type
Self citations Much debated issue
Fixed citation windows Some times used in research
Representativeness
Results per Graduate SchoolRS N C Wavg CPP CI %T10 %T1 %NC Repr
Ceres 100 312 379 3.12 0.82 6% 1% 27% 26%
EPS 1500 26660 11413 17.77 2.34 38% 9% 5% 86%
MGS 496 2504 2033 5.05 1.23 15% 2% 26% 54%
PE&RC 1873 15972 11219 8.53 1.42 18% 2% 13% 79%
VLAG 1938 24582 16591 12.68 1.48 20% 3% 8% 92%
WIAS 1031 8254 6940 8.01 1.19 14% 1% 11% 93%
WIMEK 1256 13864 8970 11.04 1.55 21% 4% 8% 86%
Also available for any group at Wageningen UR
Why bibliometrics in the library
We maintained the metadata archive for publications from the university already
We have experience with developing, and maintaining large publication databases
We license bibliometric databases used in these analyses
We are experienced in searching notoriously illogical databases such as Web of Science
Win/win for the library
Improvement of our repository Many presentations on the bibliometric
approach Presentations on detailed analysis for
individual science groups Advice on bibliometrics to publication
strategy
Matching our Repository and WoS
WoS9577 articles & reviews
Repository 10933 p.r. articles
Missing in repository, 807 articles
Missing from WoS, 1159 articles
1161 peer reviewed articles not in WoS journals
Is this the only thing you do with the repository?
Research administration system
Repository
Project administration system
Univ. white pagesDept. pagesPers. pages
Peer review
New roles for libraries
Application based on our own content Enriched with data from third parties Remixed and added value To be used in other applications
Is it an example of a Web 2.0 application?
Conclusion
In the beginning our services concentrated on raking in the data, and calculating the advanced bibliometric indicators
Now the number crunching is largely automated, and we added value to our services by giving advice and consultations to many groups of researchers
For publication advice they come to the library!
