Collaborative Tracking of IPY Publications for the IPY Publications Database

Presented to the SLA Meeting, Denver June 4, 2007

By Sharon Tahirkheli, Ross Goodwin, and Heather Lane

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IPY Publications Database

• International Polar Year 2007-2008– Projects are international and interdisciplinary– Observations March 2007 – March 2009– Research and publishing continue for years– At least 20,000 publications?

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IPY Publications Database

• Why Establish an IPY Bibliographic Database?– Useful to researchers, research managers, educators

and communicators– Allows interdisciplinary and geographic searching– Provides records for ongoing polar databases

• How to Fund an IPY Bibliographic Database?– Keep costs low– Find innovative solutions

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IPY Publications Database

• How to Identify all IPY Publications?– Difficulties

• Examining all literature is too expensive• Keeping in touch with all IPY researchers is too

expensive

– Solution• Use the IPY Data Policy

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IPY Publications Database• Creating a New Bibliographic Database

– Difficulties• A new stand-alone database is too expensive

• Existing databases have different record formats

– Solution• Share the workload and tag IPY records

• Copy the tagged IPY records from the Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) database

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IPY Publications Database

• The IPY Publications Database Network– Cold Regions Bibliography Project (CRBP)– Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Library– Arctic Science and Technology Information System

(ASTIS)– National Information Services Corporation (NISC)– Discovery and Access of Historic Literature of the

IPYs (DAHLI)

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IPY Publications Database

• The IPY Publications Database (IPYPD)– Is endorsed by the IPY Joint Committee– Is part of the IPY Data and Information Service

(IPYDIS) hosted by NSIDC

• The IPY Data Policy requests IPY researchers to report their publications to the IPYPD

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IPY Publications Database

• IPYPD Reporting Rules– Reporting rules available on IPYPD site– Links to reporting information available at

ASTIS, CRBP, and SPRI sites– Additional links available to researchers at

IPY sites

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IPY Publications Database

• IPYPD Reporting Rules – Define what an “IPY publication” is– Describe what information to provide and how

to send it (e.g., a DOI by e-mail)– Report to CRBP, SPRI and/or ASTIS

depending on the subject and geographic scope of the publication

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IPY Publications Database• Launched February 2007• For IPY 2007-2008 will contain primarily general,

outreach and education publications in early stages (83 records to date)

• Includes options to search Author, Year, Language, Audience, IPY and Publication Type

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IPY Publications Database

• IPYPD Records Contain– Citations– Abstracts– Subject and geographic indexing– Live links to full-text (DOIs or URLs)– Subject terms to indicate IPY research

publications and IPY EOC publications

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IPY Publications Database• IPYPD Records Will Appear In

– IPY Publications Database– Arctic & Antarctic Regions database– Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and

Technology– Antarctic Bibliography– SPRILIB database– ASTIS database

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IPY Publications Database• IPYPD Records Will Appear In (continued)

– CRBP IPY Alert List– Canadian IPY Publications Database– Other Regional and Subject Databases

• From ASTIS: Nunavut, Nunavik, Inuvialuit, Northern Contaminants, etc. databases

• From SPRI: SPRILIB Antarctica, Russian North, Ice and Snow, etc. databases

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IPY Publications Database• Funding Status -- Not Fully Funded

– Endorsement by the IPY Joint Committee does not provide funding

• CRBP – Much of the IPYPD work will be covered by current CRBP (NSF) funding (2005-2011)

• SPRI – SPRI Appeal • ASTIS – Canadian industry (Encana) • NISC – From ASTIS

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IPY Publications Database

• http://www.nisc.com/ipy