Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications

An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online

& Other ResourcesMartin R. Kalfatovic

Smithsonian Libraries

Leibniz Association | Smithsonian Exchange30 October 2017 | Washington, DC

OVERVIEW In 2018, Smithsonian

Libraries will mark ten

years of providing direct

support to scholarly

communications for the

Smithsonian.

Over the past ten years,

Smithsonian Libraries

have moved from

providing direct support

for the scholarship of the

Institution to an active

role of managing the

tracking, metrics, and

analysis of published

research output.

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In 2008, Smithsonian

Libraries launched

Smithsonian Research

Online (SRO), a

metadata repository that

captured bibliographic

data of publications in a

searchable and

repurposable database.

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SRO was soon

supplemented with a

content repository, using

the DSpace platform, to

capture and store full-

text publications within

the bounds of copyright.

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SRO tracks scholarly

and related research

output across the

Institution with data from

all museums and

research institutes.

STATISTICS

Currently, there are nearly 83,000

citations in SRO. Over the past four years,

there are around 2,200-2,700 citations

added each year. As would be expected,

the majority of publications are from the

sciences. The Smithsonian Astrophysical

Observatory, National Museum of Natural

History, and the Smithsonian Tropical

Research Institute being the usual leaders

in terms of output.

SMITHSONIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGWHAT WE HAVE IN RESEARCH ONLINE

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Growth of annual number of publications by Smithsonian authors in Research Online (from 1843-2016)

OVER 80K PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1843

SCIENCE

HISTORY &

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ART

OTHER

What Smithsonian Publishes

Nearly 83,000 total publications since 1846

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SmithsonianResearchAreas

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Institutional Repository

The SRO repository holds about 25,000 publications and related items.

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WHITE HOUSE DIRECTIVE

In 2013, the Smithsonian voluntarily

complied with the White House

Directive on Public Access to

Federally Funded Research and

Data.

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In August 2015, the Institution released

the Plan for Increased Public Access to

Results of Federally Funded Research. In

conjunction with the Smithsonian

Institution Scholarly Press, the

Smithsonian Libraries manages

compliance with the Directive via

participation in the publisher lead

CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open

Research of the United States) and the

Association of Research Libraries SHARE

program.

SERVICES AND SCHOLARLY METRICS

Smithsonian Libraries Scholarly

Communications support evaluation

of the Smithsonian research output.

Key services and uses of SRO

include:

Professional Accomplishment

Evaluation Committee (PAEC)

Impact metrics around funded post-

doc, e.g. the Peter Buck Fellowship

Program

BIBLIOMETRICS AT THE SMITHSONIANREPORTING EXAMPLES

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Impact of Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems

Smithsonian Libraries uses data from SRO to

generate on-demand and annual reports for

museum, research institute, and central

administrators.

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Additionally, SRO provides a central data source for tracking published scholarly output that is repurposable on museum, department, and individual research web-pages.

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Many of the reports are standard impact analysis, but for the past few years, Altmetrics have been employed to provide an additional lens into the impact of research.

GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS

Smithsonian Libraries also serves as

the distributor of unique identifiers for

the Institution.

GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS

SMITHSONIAN PROFILESThe research ecosystem is much larger than just

publications. To capture this larger ecosystem,

Smithsonian Libraries collaborated with Deputy

Under Secretary for Collections and

Interdisciplinary Support (DUSCIS), the Office of

Fellowships and Internships, and Smithsonian

Institution Scholarly Press ...

SMITHSONIAN PROFILESto build a researcher profile system that would

serve as an expert locator and scholarly

activities management system. Built on the VIVO

open source platform, Smithsonian Profiles is

currently available internally and will launch

externally later in 2017.

RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT

Smithsonian Libraries have been

leading the pan-Smithsonian Data

Management Working Group since

early 2013.

The Working Group had

wide participation from

both SIL staff and from

important partners

including the Office of

the Chief Information

Officer (OCIO),

Smithsonian Archives,

and the National

Museum of Natural

History.

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Research institutes and academic

institutions have increasingly turned

towards their libraries to assist with

the creation and staffing of RDM

programs. The many years of

successful work by Smithsonian

Libraries staff in establishing the SRO

program to capture scholarly

publications, made SIL the obvious

choice to lead the project.

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Earlier this month, with financial support

from the Deputy Under Secretary for

Collections and Interdisciplinary Support

(DUSCIS), Smithsonian Libraries launched

the Smithsonian Research Data Prototype

Project (SRDPP) which will last

approximately six months. The SRDPP will

provide recommendations for next steps in

creating a robust Research Data

Management program for the Institution's

researchers.

IN CLOSING ...Scholarly communication has taken on new complexities

in the networked environment. With 21 libraries in

Smithsonian museums and research institutes,

Smithsonian Libraries is uniquely poised to serve as a

hub for scholarly communications management for the

complex distribute research activities of the Smithsonian.

Anacostia Community Museum LibraryNational Air and Space Museum LibraryNational Museum of African American History & Culture LibraryNational Museum of American History LibraryNational Postal Museum LibrarySmithsonian Institution Libraries Research AnnexThe Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian

History and Culture

Smithsonian American Art / Portrait Gallery LibraryCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design LibraryFreer and Sackler Galleries LibraryHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden LibraryWarren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art

Art and Design

Botany and Horticulture LibraryJohn Wesley Powell Library of AnthropologyMuseum Support Center LibraryNational Museum of Natural History LibraryNational Zoological Park LibrarySmithsonian Environmental Research Center LibraryEarl Tupper Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Sciences

Dibner Library of the History of Science and TechnologyJoseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History

Special Collections

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Richard Naples

Scott Miller

Suzanne Pilsk

Thanks to these Smithsonian Staff

for assistance in this presentation

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