Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications: An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online & Other Resources. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Aim, Scope & Challenges of Research Museums: An Exchange between the Smithsonian Institution & Leibniz Association. Washington, DC. 30 October 2017.

1. Smithsonian Libraries in Service of
Scholarly Communications
An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online
& Other Resources
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Libraries
Leibniz Association | Smithsonian Exchange
30 October 2017 | Washington, DC

2. OVERVIEW In 2018, Smithsonian
Libraries will mark ten
years of providing direct
support to scholarly
communications for the
Smithsonian.

3. Over the past ten years,
Smithsonian Libraries
have moved from
providing direct support
for the scholarship of the
Institution to an active
role of managing the
tracking, metrics, and
analysis of published
research output.
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In 2008, Smithsonian
Libraries launched
Smithsonian Research
Online (SRO), a
metadata repository that
captured bibliographic
data of publications in a
searchable and
repurposable database.

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SRO was soon
supplemented with a
content repository, using
the DSpace platform, to
capture and store full-
text publications within
the bounds of copyright.

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SRO tracks scholarly
and related research
output across the
Institution with data from
all museums and
research institutes.

7. STATISTICS
Currently, there are nearly 83,000
citations in SRO. Over the past four years,
there are around 2,200-2,700 citations
added each year. As would be expected,
the majority of publications are from the
sciences. The Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, National Museum of Natural
History, and the Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute being the usual leaders
in terms of output.

8. SMITHSONIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
WHAT WE HAVE IN RESEARCH ONLINE
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Thousands
Growth of annual number of publications by Smithsonian authors in Research Online (from 1843-2016)
OVER 80K PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1843

9. SCIENCE
HISTORY &
CULTURE
ART
OTHER
What
Smithsonian
Publishes
Nearly 83,000 total publications since 1846
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10. Smithsonian
Research
Areas
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Institutional
Repository
The SRO repository
holds about 25,000
publications and related
items.
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12. WHITE HOUSE DIRECTIVE
In 2013, the Smithsonian voluntarily
complied with the White House
Directive on Public Access to
Federally Funded Research and
Data.

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In August 2015, the Institution released
the Plan for Increased Public Access to
Results of Federally Funded Research. In
conjunction with the Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press, the
Smithsonian Libraries manages
compliance with the Directive via
participation in the publisher lead
CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open
Research of the United States) and the
Association of Research Libraries SHARE
program.

14. SERVICES AND SCHOLARLY
METRICS
Smithsonian Libraries Scholarly
Communications support evaluation
of the Smithsonian research output.

15. Key services and uses of SRO
include:
Professional Accomplishment
Evaluation Committee (PAEC)
Impact metrics around funded post-
doc, e.g. the Peter Buck Fellowship
Program

16. BIBLIOMETRICS AT THE SMITHSONIAN
REPORTING EXAMPLES
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Impact of Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Smithsonian Libraries uses data from SRO to
generate on-demand and annual reports for
museum, research institute, and central
administrators.

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Additionally, SRO
provides a central
data source for
tracking published
scholarly output that
is repurposable on
museum,
department, and
individual research
web-pages.

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Many of the reports are
standard impact analysis,
but for the past few years,
Altmetrics have been
employed to provide an
additional lens into the
impact of research.

19. GLOBALLY UNIQUE
IDENTIFIERS
Smithsonian Libraries also serves as
the distributor of unique identifiers for
the Institution.

20. GLOBALLY UNIQUE
IDENTIFIERS

21. SMITHSONIAN PROFILES
The research ecosystem is much larger than just
publications. To capture this larger ecosystem,
Smithsonian Libraries collaborated with Deputy
Under Secretary for Collections and
Interdisciplinary Support (DUSCIS), the Office of
Fellowships and Internships, and Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press ...

22. SMITHSONIAN PROFILES
to build a researcher profile system that would
serve as an expert locator and scholarly
activities management system. Built on the VIVO
open source platform, Smithsonian Profiles is
currently available internally and will launch
externally later in 2017.

23. RESEARCH DATA
MANAGEMENT
Smithsonian Libraries have been
leading the pan-Smithsonian Data
Management Working Group since
early 2013.

24. The Working Group had
wide participation from
both SIL staff and from
important partners
including the Office of
the Chief Information
Officer (OCIO),
Smithsonian Archives,
and the National
Museum of Natural
History.
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25. Research institutes and academic
institutions have increasingly turned
towards their libraries to assist with
the creation and staffing of RDM
programs. The many years of
successful work by Smithsonian
Libraries staff in establishing the SRO
program to capture scholarly
publications, made SIL the obvious
choice to lead the project.
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26. Earlier this month, with financial support
from the Deputy Under Secretary for
Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
(DUSCIS), Smithsonian Libraries launched
the Smithsonian Research Data Prototype
Project (SRDPP) which will last
approximately six months. The SRDPP will
provide recommendations for next steps in
creating a robust Research Data
Management program for the Institution's
researchers.

27. IN CLOSING ...
Scholarly communication has taken on new complexities
in the networked environment. With 21 libraries in
Smithsonian museums and research institutes,
Smithsonian Libraries is uniquely poised to serve as a
hub for scholarly communications management for the
complex distribute research activities of the Smithsonian.

28. Anacostia Community Museum Library
National Air and Space Museum Library
National Museum of African American History & Culture Library
National Museum of American History Library
National Postal Museum Library
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Research Annex
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian
History and Culture
Smithsonian American Art / Portrait Gallery Library
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library
Freer and Sackler Galleries Library
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library
Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
Art and Design
Botany and Horticulture Library
John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology
Museum Support Center Library
National Museum of Natural History Library
National Zoological Park Library
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library
Earl Tupper Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sciences
Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
Special Collections
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Smithsonian Libraries

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Scott Miller
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Smithsonian Staff
for assistance in
this presentation
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You!