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Aligning HKU’s Library Sponsored Institutional

Repository (Knowledge Hub) with the University’s Mission &

Vision

Tony Ferguson & David PalmerThe University of Hong Kong

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The HKU Scholars Hub/Institutional Repository

June 2009: 25,000+ items OA fulltext, including 17,012 thesis 4,125 journal

articles 2,165 conference

papers

Good, but we should be able to do a lot better! Scopus receives

3,000/yr from HKU

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But how to populate it even more?

Lacked sufficient carrots or sticks NO Mandate, no stick Some question the OA

Advantage’s value as a carrot

And getting authors to submit is already difficult:

“What is the author’s manuscript?” “Why use an Author’s Addendum?”

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Then, suddenly a Gift from Heaven !!

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Research Councils UK Pronouncement on the importance of Knowledge Transfer/Exchange

“Knowledge transfer describes how knowledge and ideas move between the knowledge source to the potential users of that knowledge. “

The [UK] Research Councils encourages knowledge transfer by supporting schemes and activities to transfer good ideas, research results and skills between, for example, universities and other research organisations, business, the third sector, public sector and/or the wider community.” http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/ktportal/default.htm

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That is the UK, but why is Knowledge Exchange so important in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong’s higher education sector continues to reflect its colonial past and so they are now emphasizing Knowledge Exchange/ Transfer.

Consequently, in Hong Kong our University Grants Council has HK$50million/yr to distribute to ENCOURAGE the 8 universities to do more in the way of Knowledge Exchange

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And so the U of HK has included Knowledge Transfer in its 3 main goals

1)Teaching & Learning,

2)Research, and

3)Knowledge Exchange (KE)

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HKU has decided it needs a Database of Visible Research

This Database should showcase the University’s contributions and include:

♦ Metrics from citation databases

♦ Listing of Research Output & Grants, etc.

♦ An expanded OA Strategy

That Database of Visible Research is HKU’s Scholar’s Hub

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We believe this need to demonstrate HKU’s contributions to Knowledge Transfer provides us with the sticks and carrots we need

Universitieswith fewer citations gets fewer grants

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But we need Metrics to demonstrate HKU’s Effectiveness: Harvesting metrics from Scopus

1,000 HKU researcher names

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More Metrics: Harvesting from ISI’s ResearcherID.Com Database

1,000 HKU researcher names

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More Metrics: We collect data from several local databases/silos

Name & Contact Details HKU Communications Directory

Picture & Biography Departmental web pages

Media Spokesmanship HKU Communications & Public Affairs Office

Metrics Scopus & RID

We harvest each of these from their own silos Visual Studio Excel XML Hub

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Roman & Chinese names

Title Variant Names Research Interests

Picture Contact Details Personal Page Biography

Collapse Button

Expand Button

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MouseOver on “R” produces popup

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Media Spokesmanship: We highlight the areas for which faculty members can be called upon to give advice, etc.

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We highlight how each faculty member compares with others and make it easy to access their writings:

Bibliometrics Deep Linking

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OA fulltext items in the Hub for this author

“” indicates there is an Researcher Page.

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Searching on names in the Hub

Hierarchy of Authority & Synonymy Authorized

headings Variant headings

Multi-script Synonymy Roman,

Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. (UTF-8)

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Finding ResearcherPages in the Hub

Search on RP details

Expand buttons to show lists of researchers with RP in each dept & faculty

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Getting faculty buy in: User Authentication in the Hub

HKU Single Sign-on (SSO / CAS)

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Staff mode; each researcher can login to change only his details

Each RP owner can, Edit Add Delete

Hide

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Researcher Buy-in

Hub provides what researchers want: Increased readership Increased offers of collaboration Advancement ammunition Recognition

The researcher has control over his own details

Same details shown for every HKU researcher Pride of Place; jockeying for position

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Prof. Tam, Paul K.H.

Dept of Surgery, Head

Pro-Vice Chancellor

(Research)

Hub appears first in Google, above even entries for Scientific Commons and Surgery Dept

Exam

ple

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One of Prof Tam’s articles in the Hub

Scopus: 3 citations

WoS: 3 citations

WoS: Co-citers list(Prof Tam in his paper, and others (co-citers) in their papers, have cited the same 3rd party papers)

GoogleScholar Search for Cited-by

Exam

ple

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Progress

University Admin requests each researcher to do, show and measure Knowledge Transfer

Researchers discover the many benefits of the Hub, and respond: Early days but.., 50% more responses and

faster, to our batch emailings

Can a real OA/IR mandate be far behind?

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Future Enhancements

Download statistics, cumulated by month, year, item, and researcher

Monthly emails to researchers on download statistics of his papers

RSS, email alerts & twitter on Hub additions

Hub ingestion of all HKU research output citations

Research Grant details

Postgraduate student supervision; links to their theses

HKU patents

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Terima Kasihспасибо

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감사합니다cảm ơn bạn

धन्यवा�दΣε ευχαριστώ

תודה 有り難うございます

Thank You

HKU Colleagues 　　　 港大同僚

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