Search, access and impact: Web citation services

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Search, access and impact Web citation services

• Tim Brody
• Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
• University of Southampton

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Services for Open Access Literature
OAIster
Scirus
GoogleScholar
Search Engines Navigation Tools Analysis
Assessment
BMC
Citeseer
Citebase
Citation Analysis/Linking Services (Citebase /
Citeseer / OpenURL / DOI) Version Linking Services
OAI-PMH Transport
arXiv.org
EPrints
Self-Archived Full-texts (Pre/Post-prints) Open
Access Publishing
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Search
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Search
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Search
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Search
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Citebase Search
Xapian Search Indexer
Dublin Core Harvest Normalisation
OAI Metadata Repositories
Citation Database
www Interface
Metadata Database
CitationParsing
CitationLinking
Analysis Tools
Refer. Database
Full-textretrieval, conversion parsing
Repository Full-Texts
OAI Export
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Search Engine

• Xapian (free search API) boolean text search
  post-sorting
• Rank-by
• Boolean search score
• Citations (Paper, Author)
• Dates (Repository datestamps)
• Downloads UK arXiv only
• Hub/Authority (?Google PageRank?)

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www Interface

• Metadata display
• Getting UTF-8 right is tough
• Full-text links (limited PDF-linking)
• Navigation by author, citation, co-citation
• Citation/Download history
• Citebase Citations/Downloads

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Analysis Tools

• Papers over time/by field
• Citations over time (by field)
• Citation latency (read-write-cite latency)
• Usage (downloads) by country
• Correlation (predictiveness) between
  downloads/cites

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OAI Export

• Dublin Core Structured Citations
• DC-Cite
• OpenURLs
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Citebase Usage
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Perspective of a Service

• IRs serve an institutional need
• Services can be built on IRs to serve communitys
  needs
• Communities need
• Access to the primary literature full-text
• Means of discovery (is Google good enough?)
• Development of new services ideas competition
  at the point of use

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Content

• Citebase Search
• http//citebase.eprints.org/
• http//scholar.google.com/, http//www.citeseer.co
  m/, http//www.oaister.com/