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What’s new at CSA
Vicki Soto, Aquatic Sciences Supervisor
[email protected] Emerson, Vice President,
CSA Illumina
• New Usage System – various reports to evaluate and manage your CSA Illumina account
• COS Funding Opportunities – database of funding opportunities (grants, fellowships, prizes, etc.)
• Community of Scholars – directory of more than 1 million researchers in over 200 disciplines and 8 countries
CSA Illumina: Full-text linking
Sample publishers include:• ASM Journals• Bioline International• Elsevier Science Direct (3 packages)• JSTOR (2 packages)• IEEE (4 packages)• Soil Science Society of America• Wiley (15 packages)
ASFA: ASFA Partnership
There are now 59 ASFA Partners
• 4 UN Co-sponsoring partners
• 10 International partners
• 44 National partners
• 1 Publishing partnerFull directory http://www.fao.org/fi/asfa/partners.asp
ASFA: ASFA Partnership
New ASFA Partners:• INAHINA – Instituto Nacional de
Hidrografia e Navegaçao, Mozambique• Living Aquatic Resources Research
Center (LARReC), Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC), Thailand
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), Canada
Serial Sources: New Titles
• Marine Biology Research• International Journal of Recirculating
Aquaculture• Ocean Science• Marine Drugs• Ships and Offshore Structures• Estuaries and Coasts• International Journal of Oceans and
Oceanography
Retroactive Indexing Projects:
• Kenya: 4,000 records • Belgium: 10,000 records dealing
with the North Sea• Russia: 310 records of Barents and
Norwegian Seas literature 1938-1971 translated from Russian
• Russia: 700 records of Caspian Sea literature 1779-1970 (complete)
ASFA Database: Recent References
Process to include recent, but un-indexed records into the ASFA database.
Records will be identified as indexing in progress.
Include all titles, not just select serial sources.
CSA Discovery Guides
• Hydrothermal Vent Communities (C. Scearce)• Ice Core Proxy Methods for Tracking Climate Change (C.
Readinger)• Tsunamis and the International Response: Economic,
Social and Environmental Dimensions (B. Fertig, T. Foster, I. Nicholas)
Upcoming• The Venice Lagoon• Mercury in Fish
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/discoveryguides-main.php
CSA’s “Deep-Indexing” Project
-an Index to Figures and Tables
in published research
Researchers are data-
hungry
Identifying data – within context – not easy
Why a Figures & Tables Index?
• Figures and tables represent the distilled essence of research – the closest thing to the raw datasets
• These objects are not currently indexed directly
• They are often hidden in the overall context of the article
• If we can make these objects visible by indexing each table & figure, we would provide an extremely valuable research tool to focus literature searches
Table 1. Depth, physico-chemical and sedimentological variables.
Title of Article: “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and changes in the trophic structure of polychaete assemblages in sediments of Todos os Santos Bay, Northeastern, Brazil”
Why are these data invisible to traditional searches?
1. A search for “copper and toxicity” will retrieve many articles in which these variables weren’t actually studied.
2. Data presented in articles are not necessarily the focus of the research:
• literature searches can be focused with greatly increased accuracy
• allows researchers to draw connections between disparate subjects, identifying avenues of new research rather than simply providing answers
• a side benefit… the index facilitates the collection of figures and tables that could be used in reports and presentations, a bonus for teachers and undergraduates
Finding data is great, but the overall value of a Tables & Figures Index includes:
What will indexing involve?1. Categorization• What “type” of object is represented... a map, a graph?
2. Addition of Descriptors• What are the dependent and independent variables?• What are the units?• What are subject, taxonomic, geographic terms?• Is there statistical information?
…Figure – Graph – 3D Surface PlotFigure – Graph – Histogram/Bar ChartFigure – Illustration – Gene/Protein – Maps & SequencesFigure – Illustration – Molecular StructureFigure – Map – Bathymetric MapFigure – Map – Topographic MapFigure – Photograph – Satellite Image…
What is the status of the Tables & Figures Index?
• >1,000,000 indexed tables and figures
• >1,000 journals monitored (and rising quickly)
• 10-yr backfile for many serials (and expanding back)
• Focus on publisher agreements (e.g. AAAS, AFS, ASM, AMS, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, etc.)
• Modifications to CSA Illumina to incorporate the index
Article-level Search Results will include “pinkies”
Abstract Records will include “thumbnails”
Tables & Figures can be searched directly
Full display of tables/images in “Object Record”
Object-level indexing and identification of predictive relationships
Object-specific Attribution:
"Overwhelmingly, respondents said the ability to
search for specific types of objects would make a
difference in their search and discovery processes…
... save time
... work more efficiently
... aid in presentations
... find more relevant results."
Tenopir, C., & Sandusky, R.J. (2006). The Value of CSA Deep Indexing for Researchers - Draft Final Report
The researcher response so far…