The role of open metadata in enhancing research visibility through open access journals and repositories

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL

Institutional repository

OAI-PMH

web scraping

machine-readable

metadata

Open Access

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Other repositories �and aggregators

Repository

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Open access journal using a journal management system such as OJS or Janeway

OAI-PMH

Web scraping

Meta tags

Metadata delivery

Repositories

OTHER AGGREGATORS

Open access journal

Open access journal using a static website or a content management system (e.g. Wordpress)

web scraping

Also possible:

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Machine-readable metadata

(manually or semi-manually)

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Metadata delivery

(manually)

Open access journal

machine-readable

metadata

web scraping

Social networking sites for researchers

Open metadata

• Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
• Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA)
• Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
• Release the journal metadata under the CC0 licence (enable metadata exchange protocols and state the licence in journal policies)

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Social networking sites for researchers

• Not harvestable (not willing to provide data to aggregators and other infrastructures);
• Have embedded metadata that can be imported in reference managers (manually, one by one);
• Visible in Google and Google Scholar;
• The content is not curated (no quality control; the data is presented as provided by users – nobody checks or corrects it);
• No long-term preservation policy;
• Possible copyright issues.

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