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CINF 86

CINF 86. A History of Cooperation between Canadian university chemistry departments, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and publisher: Archiving the Canadian Journal of Chemistry, issues 1951 through 1997.

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CINF 86

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  1. CINF 86

  2. A History of Cooperation between Canadian university chemistry departments, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and publisher: Archiving the Canadian Journal of Chemistry, issues 1951 through 1997

  3. Lai Im Lancaster & Brian Maurice Lynch Department of Chemistry St. Francis Xavier [StFX] University Physical Sciences ComplexAntigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Canada

  4. NOTEThis presentation and all others in this symposium will be made available at the CINF Web site as mp3 audio files and pdf or ppt files as appropriate,generating a virtual symposium for chemists unable to attend.

  5. Physical Sciences Complex[opened September 2004]

  6. The illustration in the previous slide is relevant to our paper: in June 2003 we arrived at the idea that a project of electronic archiving of our national chemistry journal [the Canadian Journal of Chemistry] would be appropriate recognition of the building’s opening in 2004.

  7. This proposal was endorsed by our university administration, andalso by a vote of support from the executive of our regional [Atlantic] section of the Canadian Society for Chemistry.

  8. In August 2003 we were able to get endorsement by the Council of Canadian University Chemistry Chairs [representing over 60 universities]at their annual meeting.

  9. About that time, the ACS announced the availability of their complete journal archive, and the RSC announced that their archive would be completed by early 2004.

  10. Comparisons:American Chemical Society (ACS) Archive: 3 million pages.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Archive: 1.2 million pages.Both archives are accessible free of cost to all Canadian universities through CRKN [Canada Research Knowledge Network].Chemical Abstracts Service has 30 million articles [academic searches at 90% discount off commercial rate [i.e. ~ $0.20 US/file]].All are Web accessible and searchable.

  11. “National” journals fromsmall countries have found it more difficult to competeover the last 50 yearsas illustrated by the following figure:

  12. The CSC has around 7,000 members, compared to the ACS total of 160,000.Our financial resources are about 2 % those of the ACS.

  13. Aside from our department winning a major lottery,some drastic action would be needed to achieve the archivingobjective!

  14. The initial reaction from the Director-General of journal publishing at NRC Press in November 2003 was almost totally negative - • archiving was not a high priority and would probably not be considered for approximately four years [late 2007] • tests on an NRC journal with high graphics content [Canadian Geotechnical Journal] were labor-intensive and gave mediocre results • “unskilled” personnel such as summer undergraduate students could not be expected to produce archive files of adequate standard • Therefore, “thanks but no thanks” for official sponsorship, but you are welcome to go ahead with an experimental attempt to archive the 1997 volume......

  15. In January 2004, a newly appointed acting Director-General contacted us with a completely different response, seeking our offer as “a solution, not a problem” and asking our library to supply some volumes of CJC for their in-house evaluation of archiving processes.

  16. In the interim, we short-circuited archival scanning by using the services of a private company to generate JPEG files directly from scanning of purchased microfiche of Volume 75 for CJC. These are directly printable to PDF image-only files, in turn convertible into “exact image” files by a standard process built in to Adobe Acrobat Professional Software versions 6 or later.

  17. We next turned to the possible automation of the metadata [aka abstract data] accompanying the fulltext content of the CJC volume. For 1997, there were approximately 220 papers; the CA abstracts could be captured in cbib mode to give a typical display as follows:

  18. An example of “automated” metadatafrom CAS bibliography on 1967 CJC paper

  19. Apparent Problems • CJC currently publishes approximately half the pages per annual volume of the peak year [1969, 4825 pages]. • [repeating previous slide for emphasis]

  20. Effects • For 1994, CJC articles were 13.5% of the total of published Chemistry papers with Canadian affiliations; • For 2004, CJC articles were 9.1 % of this total

  21. Effects • Total of papers abstracted by CA identified by publishing nation as “Canadian” decreased by 7.5 % from 1994 to 2004 • Total of papers abstracted by CA and identified by publishing nation as “Australian” increased by 33 % from 1994 to 2004

  22. It is standard practice to provide free access to abstracts of electronic issues, and to charge for access to the fulltext articles The Australian Journal of Chemistry [AJC] supplies author e-mail addresses with the abstract, inviting e-mail requests for reprints without requiring purchase of the paper

  23. AJC Abstract [note e-mail address]

  24. Another Example: CMAJ

  25. CJC Example 1

  26. CJC Example 2

  27. CJC Example 3

  28. NRC decided that the “automated metadata” approach was inconsistent with their requirement that the electronic archives be absolutely identical in format with the electronic issues from 1998-current, and with financial assistance furnished at our urging by CCUCC and CSC, together with supply of hard copies from academic libraries, developed a complete pdf image file set in April 2006. Initially, the fulltext files were not searchable but automatic OCR converted these by June 2006. One cautionary note: Google indexing of the archive content is not consistent!!

  29. The St FX Contribution • Although we were disappointed in that we did not secure a contract for the complete archiving, we have been able to generate a departmental archive repository of over 600 chemical publications. Our initiative and pressure accelerated the archiving of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry by about two years.

  30. An Explanation • My usual co-author is unable to attend this meeting; she is working hard supervising another workshop [see picture at right]

  31. Assessment of Impact of Older Papers-Citation Persistence • 7 of 11 of my frequently cited papers since 1955 appeared in Can. J. Chem.

  32. Some heavily cited CJC papers from Google Scholar • There are approximately 12,000 entries of about 20,000 papersfrom 1951 through 1997 [[60 % are cited]

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