Tony Ferguson & David Palmer The University of Hong Kong

1. Aligning HKU’s Library Sponsored Institutional Repository (Knowledge Hub) with the University’s Mission & Vision Tony Ferguson & David Palmer The University of Hong Kong ad

2. The HKU Scholars Hub/Institutional Repository • June 2009: 25,000+ items OA fulltext, including • 17,012 thesis • 4,125 journal articles • 2,165 conference papers • Good, but we should be able to do a lot better! • Scopus receives 3,000/yr from HKU

3. But how to populate it even more? • Lacked sufficient carrotsorsticks • NO Mandate, no stick • Some question the OA Advantage’s value as a carrot • And getting authors to submit is already difficult: • “What is the author’s manuscript?” • “Why use an Author’s Addendum?”

4. Then, suddenly a Gift from Heaven !!

5. Research Councils UK Pronouncement on the importance of Knowledge Transfer/Exchange • “Knowledge transfer describes how knowledge and ideas move between the knowledge source to the potential users of that knowledge. “ • The [UK] Research Councils encourages knowledge transfer by supporting schemes and activities to transfer good ideas, research results and skills between, for example, universities and other research organisations, business, the third sector, public sector and/or the wider community.” http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/ktportal/default.htm

6. That is the UK, but why is Knowledge Exchange so important in Hong Kong? • Hong Kong’s higher education sector continues to reflect its colonial past and so they are now emphasizing Knowledge Exchange/ Transfer. • Consequently, in Hong Kong our University Grants Council has HK$50million/yr to distribute to ENCOURAGE the 8 universities to do more in the way of Knowledge Exchange

7. And so the U of HK has included Knowledge Transfer in its 3 main goals • Teaching & Learning, • Research, and • Knowledge Exchange (KE)

8. HKU has decided it needs a Database of Visible Research This Database should showcase the University’s contributions and include: • Metrics from citation databases • Listing of Research Output & Grants, etc. • An expanded OA Strategy That Database of Visible Research is HKU’s Scholar’s Hub

9. We believe this need to demonstrate HKU’s contributions to Knowledge Transfer provides us with the sticks and carrots we need Universities with fewer citations gets fewer grants

10. But we need Metrics to demonstrate HKU’s Effectiveness: Harvesting metrics from Scopus • 1,000 HKU researcher names

11. More Metrics: Harvesting from ISI’s ResearcherID.Com Database • 1,000 HKU researcher names

12. More Metrics: We collect data from several local databases/silos • Name & Contact Details • HKU Communications Directory • Picture & Biography • Departmental web pages • Media Spokesmanship • HKU Communications & Public Affairs Office • Metrics • Scopus & RID • We harvest each of these from their own silosVisual Studio  Excel  XML  Hub

13. Roman & Chinese names • Title • Variant Names • Research Interests • Picture • Contact Details • Personal Page • Biography • Collapse Button • Expand Button

14. MouseOver on “R” produces popup

15. Media Spokesmanship: We highlight the areas for which faculty members can be called upon to give advice, etc.

16. We highlight how each faculty member compares with others and make it easy to access their writings: • Bibliometrics • Deep Linking

17. OA fulltext items in the Hub for this author • “d” indicates there is an Researcher Page.

18. Searching on names in the Hub • Hierarchy of Authority & Synonymy • Authorized headings • Variant headings • Multi-script Synonymy • Roman, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. (UTF-8)

19. Finding ResearcherPages in the Hub • Search on RP details • Expand buttons to show lists of researchers with RP in each dept & faculty

20. Getting faculty buy in: User Authentication in the Hub • HKU Single Sign-on (SSO / CAS)

21. Staff mode; each researcher can login to change only his details • Each RP owner can, • Edit • Add • Delete • Hide

22. Researcher Buy-in • Hub provides what researchers want: • Increased readership • Increased offers of collaboration • Advancement ammunition • Recognition • The researcher has control over his own details • Same details shown for every HKU researcher • Pride of Place; jockeying for position

23. Example • Prof. Tam, Paul K.H. • Dept of Surgery, Head • Pro-Vice Chancellor • (Research) • Hub appears first in Google, above even entries for Scientific Commons and Surgery Dept

24. One of Prof Tam’s articles in the Hub • Scopus: 3 citations • WoS: 3 citations • WoS: Co-citers list(Prof Tam in his paper, and others (co-citers) in their papers, have cited the same 3rd party papers) • GoogleScholar Search for Cited-by Example

25. Progress • University Admin requests each researcher to do, show and measure Knowledge Transfer • Researchers discover the many benefits of the Hub, and respond: • Early days but.., 50% more responses and faster, to our batch emailings • Can a real OA/IR mandate be far behind?

26. Future Enhancements • Download statistics, cumulated by month, year, item, and researcher • Monthly emails to researchers on download statistics of his papers • RSS, email alerts & twitter on Hub additions • Hub ingestion of all HKU research output citations • Research Grant details • Postgraduate student supervision; links to their theses • HKU patents

27. HKU Colleagues 港大同僚 Terima Kasihспасибоشكرا لك謝謝您감사합니다cảm ơn bạnधन्यवादΣε ευχαριστώ תודה有り難うございますThank You da

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