new information services in germany: getinfo and vascoda 232nd acs-meeting, dr. irina sens, 09/06
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TIB Hannover – Some of the facts (1)
> German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) : specialises in all areas of technology and their related sciences, in particular architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics
> Founded in 1959
> Financed by the German Government (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and all „Laender“
> Member of the Leibniz Association = German non-university research organisation
> FTE: 160
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TIB Hannover – Some of the facts (2)
> 7.3 mio. items and 18,000 journal subscriptions
> Special collections : Grey Literature (conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards)
> Important document delivery supplier: round about 490,000 orders in 2005
> Running subject portals: Engineering, Physics and Chemistry
> DOI-Registration agency for scientific and technical primary data
> Target groups: Scientists in industry and in science
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Goals
> Single point of access for documents in sciences and technology regardless of physical form: important is only the quality and the need of
customers
> All documents are accessible for the customer
One-stop-shopping
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GetInfo-Portal
> Broad and innovative collaboration
Interconnectivity of Information Services TIB: Full Text Solutions Subject Information Centers
FIZ Technik: Engineering Databases FIZ CHEMIE: Chemistry Databases FIZ Karlsruhe: STN-Databases
sponsored by
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Seamless integration of > Information resources > Retrieval> Delivery mechanisms
Scientific and technical literature and information portal wherecontent and service converge to make resources readily accessible, openly available, useful, and usable.
GetInfo – the Vision
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Bibliographic and FactualDatabases
INSPECInfothermSTN-Index…
GetInfoFull Text Solution
Document Delivery
Pay-Per-View
Subscription
Reliability of ResourcesReputation of Information
Key-Websites
TIB-CatalogBooks, ThesesReportsConference
ProceedingsJournals
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Status - Search
Meta Search Engine
> Search free of charge> Short title presentation free of charge - defined by
Database Supplier– Short title information– Information about number of hits in the
database - STN> Full title presentation directed to the host - under
his conditions
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Status - Full Text Solution
Classical Document Delivery
> German Copyright Law (Germany, Austria,Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
> Licence Agreement between Publishers and TIBfor “rest of the world”
Electronic Content
> Pay-Per-View
> Handling of Subscriptions
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Future
> Enhanced Search Technology Search engine – whenever it’s possible Federated search Integrated ranking of results Web 2.0 features
> Increase Searchable Content Deep web All information types – text, numeric data, audio,
video, etc
> Expanding Digital Access Pay-Per-View – Licences
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From GetInfo to vascoda
> GetInfo is a subject portal for science and technology
> vascoda is a central access point for interdisciplinary searches and
> provides access to subject portals
Navigation system
sponsored by
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Institutions involved
More than forty German institutions are working together to offer users one single-point-of access for “Where can I find information to…?”= www.vascoda.de
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The Institutions
> Libraries (German National Libraries and special subjects collection Libraries )
> Information Centres (database producers and providers)
> Library Network Centers
approaches and interests need to be harmonized
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Subjects reached by vascoda so far
• Anglo-American Culture • Business and Economics• Chemistry (coming soon) • Contemporary Art • Dutch Culture • Engineering • Ethnology • Geo-Sciences • History • Ibero-America
• Law• Medicine • Middle East• Pharmacy • Physics • Politics and Peace • Psychology• Romanic Languages • Social Sciences • Veterinary Medicine
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Target User-Groups
• Higher education and academic research community
• Other people interested in high-quality information
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Use of Search Engine Technology
> At the moment vascoda is based on a meta-search> In the future search engine-technology will become
more and more important Improvements of service: performance, facetted search (refinement)
But: > Realization of Federated Search is necessary> Not one central index> Not one central search engine
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