International visibility of local content

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International visibility of local content

• Workshop 3 Local content
• INASP/ODI Symposium 2006
• Pippa Smart
• Head, Publishing Initiatives, INASP
• psmart_at_inasp.info

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Research discovery

• Online
• Online indexes (e.g. Google, PubMed)
• Alerts, listServs, social bookmarking sites (e.g.
  Connotea, Furl)
• Word-of-mouth
• Library (main or faculty library)
• Personal subscriptions
• Other media
• Newspaper, magazines, radio, TV

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Trust

• Known journals / authors / institutions
• Peer reviewed
• Impact factor journals

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Journals listings

• Ulrichs is considered the definitive list of
  serial publications
• Over 180,000 active serials
• 43,500 refereed/academic titles
• Carol Tenopir, 2004, Library Journal
  www.libraryjournal.com

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Does this pick up every one

• Ulrichs
• Not all journals know about Ulrichs (e.g. only
  327 African-published titles)
• ISSN agency
• Not all journals have an ISSN
• Some journals have multiple ISSNs
• Many items with an ISSN are not journals
• 1123 publications from Sri Lanka truer number
  of journals published c.50

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Where else do people search

• ISI and ISSI
• Selected list of high quality journals impact
  factor
• Highly selective biased towards
  already-recognised titles
• 27 titles from sub-Saharan Africa

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Author representation in impact factor journals
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Regional research
Source UNESCO Institute for Statistics, December
2004
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Other trusted indexes

• Medline (PubMed)
• Number of titles
• Europe/USA/Australasia 6708 (90.55)
• Africa 30 (0.40)
• Asia 359 (4.85)
• China 209 (2.82)
• Central/South America 102 (1.38)
• High impact index

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Regional listings

• CLACSO
• Journals, books, grey literature
• Latindex
• Approx. 2000 journals
• SciELO
• 279 high quality journals
• AJOL
• approx. 250 peer reviewed African journals

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Local listings grey literature and published
research

• Library catalogues
• Paper, Intranet, online?
• Institutional and discipline repositories
• See Repository of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
  http//archives.eprints.org/
• Harvesters e.g. OAIster

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Finally

• Where is local content
• Can it be discovered
• (Can it be trusted)
• Can it be accessed
• How can it be made more influential?

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• What format does local content take?
• What existing rewards and values are placed on
  this content creation? (how do you measure
  impact?)
• How is the content captured and published?
• Who owns the content?
• How is it disseminated locally and
  internationally?
• What is the audience for this work what
  potential audiences should be targeted?
• What are you experiences?
• What recommendations would you make for improving
  the influence of this content throughout the
  information chain, especially on policy makers?