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International visibility of local content
Workshop 3: Local content
INASP/ODI Symposium 2006
Pippa Smart
Head, Publishing Initiatives, INASP
psmart@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
• Ulrich’s 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 …
• Ulrich’s– 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
Region and country/economy
1988 1990 1995 2000 20032003 percent
of total
All countries 466,419 508,795 580,809 632,781 698,726 100.00%
Eastern Europe/former USSR
41,597 42,836 36,390 35,844 35,0675.02%
Other Asia (exc. Chin, S.Korea, Sing, Taiw)
10,116 10,566 11,355 12,294 15,7792.26%
Near East/North Africa 7,896 8,241 9,647 11,111 13,4651.93%
Central/South America 5,632 6,886 9,547 14,747 18,9332.71%
Sub-Saharan Africa 4,544 4,355 4,161 3,973 4,2190.60%
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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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1. What format does local content take?
2. What existing rewards and values are placed on this content creation? (how do you measure impact?)
3. How is the content captured and published?• Who owns the content?
– How is it disseminated locally and internationally?
4. What is the audience for this work – what potential audiences should be targeted?
5. What are you experiences?
6. What recommendations would you make for improving the influence of this content throughout the information chain, especially on policy makers?