Integrating Trusted Science Technology Research

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Introducing
Integrating Trusted Science Technology Research
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Who is collaborating?3 million articles 150
years of scholarship

• Society publishers
• Acoustical Society of America
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Institute of Aeronautics and
  Astronautics (AIAA)
• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• AVS
• ECS
• IEEE
• Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  (SIAM)
• SPIE
• 50 million worldwide patents
• USPTO
• Japan Patent Office

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What is scitopia.org?

• Free federated vertical search portal to
  digital libraries of 15 leading worldwide science
  and technology societies
• Open to the general public, but designed for
  researchers
• Full text available via publishers digital
  products no new subscriptions to purchase
• Focused on the fields of technology, including
  engineering, physics, mathematics and computer
  science

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Not just another search engine

• scitopia.org gets researchers to the good stuff
• faster
• Powerful, focused aggregation eliminates
  internet noise for serious researchers
• Access to the highest quality scientific research
  available on the web today
• The most direct route to the very latest research
  
• no lag time from web crawling and indexing

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Content researchers needImportance of sci-tech
literature to patent process is growing

• USPTO patents up 27 over prior year
• Sci-tech references up 59 over prior year
• Based on top 25 patenting organizations USPTO
  patents in 2005 - 2006

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Content researchers need Patent citations from
top 25 companies to top 20 publishers including
scitopia.org partners DOE
Patents cite scitopia.org publishers content 6x
as often as the closest competitor
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User conducts a search from scitopia.org Home
Partners digital library access to full-text
document determined by individual partner.
User accesses full-text based on subscription
rights with that partner. Abstract records will
be visible from within scitopia.org.
Search results are shown in tabbed format clearly
indicating results from partners, patent offices
and DOE.
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Designed by researchers for researchers

• Search topics scan each digital collection
  provides effectively organized results
• New generation content process -- no screen
  scraping
• XML gateways ensure data integrity, relevant
  results
• Normalized search fields ensure consistent,
  comprehensive data retrieval
• Author and author affiliation searching, with
  standardized syntax for cross-publisher search
• Full record search uses publisher indexing and
  other metadata

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Getting from february to june

• Strong commitment from partners working together
• On technical side to enable connectors
• On business side to enable feature definition and
  pr
• Strong drive to do this now or never
• Marketplace is ripe for societies to take a stand
• Aggressive project planning
• They said it was nuts!
• Agreement in February,
• Tech and design partner signed on in March,
• Mad development in April and May,
• Beta release in June!

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Presented during a launch luncheon, scitopia.org
attracted well over 100 librarians at the Special
Libraries Association conference held on 3 June
2007 in Denver, CO. Standing room only!
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Partners shared in the presentation.
Representatives from AIP, IEEE and ASME
introduced scitopia.org to the audience.
Abe Lederman heads up Deep Web Technologies, the
technical partner that enables this federated
search.
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Scitopia.org gets good buzz

• Official launch on 16 October
• Coverage in the library press since launch
• 120 blogs
• Information Today, eContent, Online, American
  Libraries, Library Journal, Academic Newswire,
  Advanced Technology/Libraries, Outsell,
  Information World Review, Photonics,
  KnowledgeSpeak and forbes.com
• Librarians see scitopia.org as providing a unique
  service
• Competition to Google and other commercial paid
  services
• Need additional features to be really effective,
  however
• Reviewers acknowledge
• Breadth of coverage among 15 society partners
• Elimination of internet noise
• Timeliness and currency of results

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Press has been positive

• Scitopia.org - Locate a Scientific Document
• For such queries, you're going to need a more
  professional, accurate, and genre-specific search
  tool like Scitopia. Scitopia is a search engine
  for scientific documents that pulls results from
  fifteen different scientific organizations ...
• KillerStartups.com - all - http//www.killerstartu
  ps.com
• Scientific Research Made Easy with Scitopia
• Scitopia is a science student's dream. The
  service partners with over societies like the
  American Institute of Physics, the Acoustical
  Society of America, the Institute of Electrical
  and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the
  Electrochemical Society for journal articles and
  scientific papers. Scitopia is enrolling more
  scientific societies and organizations and is
  hoping to expand its database of resources.
• Appscout (PC Magazine) at http//www.appscout.com/
  
• http//blog.lexprog.com
• Barbara Quints Blog at Information Today
• http//newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?Artic
  leId39927
• Well, they must be doing something right. Both
  Dana Roth (Its going to be a great product.
  Just needs a little more fine tuning.) and Joe
  Murphy (A great start, but much improvement is
  still needed....However, the people with Scitopia
  seem to be aware of and responsive to these
  problems.) offer measured but sincere
  compliments. And the same issue of The Charleston
  Advisor that carried Murphys review also
  announced that Scitopia had won a Best Effort
  from Charlestons 7th Annual Readers Choice
  Awards.

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Using online tools to measure buzz on
scitopia.org among bloggers.
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Usage is low, but growing
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Using online tools to measure activity
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Measuring scitopia.org as a driver of traffic to
our own digital libraries
Goal is for scitopia.org to drive within top 10
by end of 2008
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Continuing the experiment into 2008

• All partners committed through 2008
• Promote, promote, promote
• Adding new features
• Adding a scitopia.org widget
• Toolbar for user browsers
• Drive usage and traffic
• Add new partners
• Decisions to make
• Continuation into 2009
• Organizational structure partners to decide how
  to develop the program further

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For more information

• b.lange_at_ieee.org
• 1 732 562 5390