Scholarly communication at the dawn of e-science: vision and projects in the field of high-energy physics

Presenter Information

Salvatore Mele, CERN
Jens Vigen, CERN

Location

Forney Hall (FRNY) B124

Session Number

Session 03

Start Date

21-6-2010 3:30 PM

End Date

21-6-2010 4:30 PM

Description

e-Science bears great promises for mankind, and effective e-Infrastructures (a.k.a. cyberinfrastructures) will be necessary to enable this vision.

e-Science also brings opportunities and challenges for the world of scholarly communication: it amplifies the needs of scientists for fast, effective, unrestricted communication of ideas and scientific results, through Open Access; it enables automation of librarianship intelligence, providing new services to the scientific community for the discovery of information; it calls on libraries and information professionals to fill new roles, as evolving actors in the scholarly communication chain.

The field of High-Energy Physics (HEP) has pioneered infrastructures for scholarly communication, with half a century of tradition in Open Access and pre-print dissemination and two decades of experiences in repositories. Scholarly communication in HEP is now moving fast in the e-Science era. This contribution will discuss three main axes of evolution: the INSPIRE project, the SCOAP3 initiative, data preservation in the field.

The INSPIRE project, jointly executed by the four leading laboratories in the field, in the US and Europe, has a unique role in the daily workflow of HEP scientists. It is the successor of the SPIRES platform, and in synergy with arXiv.org and leading publishers in the field is building a next-generation platform for scientific information in HEP. New repository services have been designed and will be presented: discovery of related information, author disambiguation, impact assessment, automated key-wording. These are based on a unique, curated, corpus of 750’000 records, among which 500’000 Open Access full-text documents

The SCOAP3 initiative aims to convert to Open Access the entire volume of the peer-reviewed literature of the field, therefore enabling e-Science applications on this corpus of information. It bears an additional e-Science dimension through its global approach to a new vision of scholarly communication, where libraries worldwide federate to enable a more efficient and economic action at the interface of peer-review, repositories and Open Access.

Data preservation in HEP is in its infancy, and faces enormous challenges. The first findings of DPHEP, the international study group in Digital Preservation for HEP will be presented, focusing on the roles of dedicated “archivists” for the field and the opportunities for specialized repositories/libraries.

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Scholarly communication at the dawn of e-science: vision and projects in the field of high-energy physics

Forney Hall (FRNY) B124

e-Science bears great promises for mankind, and effective e-Infrastructures (a.k.a. cyberinfrastructures) will be necessary to enable this vision.

e-Science also brings opportunities and challenges for the world of scholarly communication: it amplifies the needs of scientists for fast, effective, unrestricted communication of ideas and scientific results, through Open Access; it enables automation of librarianship intelligence, providing new services to the scientific community for the discovery of information; it calls on libraries and information professionals to fill new roles, as evolving actors in the scholarly communication chain.

The field of High-Energy Physics (HEP) has pioneered infrastructures for scholarly communication, with half a century of tradition in Open Access and pre-print dissemination and two decades of experiences in repositories. Scholarly communication in HEP is now moving fast in the e-Science era. This contribution will discuss three main axes of evolution: the INSPIRE project, the SCOAP3 initiative, data preservation in the field.

The INSPIRE project, jointly executed by the four leading laboratories in the field, in the US and Europe, has a unique role in the daily workflow of HEP scientists. It is the successor of the SPIRES platform, and in synergy with arXiv.org and leading publishers in the field is building a next-generation platform for scientific information in HEP. New repository services have been designed and will be presented: discovery of related information, author disambiguation, impact assessment, automated key-wording. These are based on a unique, curated, corpus of 750’000 records, among which 500’000 Open Access full-text documents

The SCOAP3 initiative aims to convert to Open Access the entire volume of the peer-reviewed literature of the field, therefore enabling e-Science applications on this corpus of information. It bears an additional e-Science dimension through its global approach to a new vision of scholarly communication, where libraries worldwide federate to enable a more efficient and economic action at the interface of peer-review, repositories and Open Access.

Data preservation in HEP is in its infancy, and faces enormous challenges. The first findings of DPHEP, the international study group in Digital Preservation for HEP will be presented, focusing on the roles of dedicated “archivists” for the field and the opportunities for specialized repositories/libraries.