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

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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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GetInfo

Subject Clusters

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Access information

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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

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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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vascoda wants to provide

orientation in the face of multiple providers

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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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Interdisciplinary Search

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Interdisciplinary

results

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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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Thank you very much for your attention!