Importing record using DOIs Catherine Jones & Robert Darby eScience Centre, Science & Technology Facilities Council STFC ePubs - summary Science and Technology Facilities Council one of the7 research councils in the UK ePubs live since 2004 http://epubs.stfc.ac.uk/http://epubs.stfc.ac.uk/ Scientific and technical outputs of the 2 main Labs Never intended to be a full text only repository Uses in-house software Currently has 30,761 metadata records & 2,521 digital objects (8%) UKCoRR 27th January 2012 DOI input mechanism ePubs has always added DOI to recording using input metadata DOI import introduced in 2010 following user requests UKCoRR 27th January 2012 Process UKCoRR 27th January 2012 User Feedback Great to be able to add records using a DOI BUT Would like to do more than one DOI at a time Do we need to check the information returned? Cant the STFC organisational stuff be automatic? UKCoRR 27th January 2012 Our plans Looking at user profile information for STFC- related information Investigating multiple DOI entry Rethinking the input checking process UKCoRR 27th January 2012 Supporting Particle Physicists Large collaborations Automated vs. manual processes UKCoRR 27th January 2012 Thanks for listening Contact details:UKCoRR 27th January 2012