Making HKU Research Discoverable & Findable: The HKU Scholars Hub. Knowledge Exchange Conference, Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2011

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1 Title Making HKU Research Discoverable & Findable: The HKU Scholars Hub Author(s) Palmer, David Citation Knowledge Exchange Conference, Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2011 Issued Date 2011 URL Rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

2 MAKING HKU RESEARCH DISCOVERABLE & FINDABLE The HKU Scholars Hub David Palmer Knowledge Exchange Conference The University of Hong Kong

3 HKU KE OPERATIONAL PRIORITY: ONE by implementing a sustainable web-based expertise directory which draws upon research output, research grant records, contract research, media expertise and community service databases, we will facilitate inbound enquiries that seek to identify expertise

4 KEY INDICATORS: SOME Item count of HKU Theses in Open Access Item count of HKU research in Open Access Applications for patents Download counts of the above Number of staff for media contact Number of collaborative researches Number of contract researches Number of consultancies, and income thereby generated Number of invited public lectures, symposia, exhibitions, performances & honorary degree speeches Number of University staff invited to be mentors Number of positive media impact related to knowledge transfer coverage, including print, online and electronic media Number of appointments of external members to HKU Number of appointments of external members to HKU advisory boards

5 DISCOVERABLE, FINDABLE Visibility leads to increased, Downloads Readership Citations Invitations for collaborative & contract research, speaking engagements, consultations, postgraduate student supervision, etc. Greater impact

6 OPEN HKU 2005: Institutional Repository, The HKU Scholars Hub 2007: Soros Foundation sponsored, Promoting 21 st Century Scholarly Communication 2009: HKU Vice-Chancellor signs Berlin Declaration 2011: HKU Intellectual Property Rights: (c).. Staff shall procure that the University is granted the right to re-use the scholarly work (including any subsequent editions) for noncommercial purposes, including without limitation, posting the work on the University's institutional repository, the HKU Scholars Hub (the "Hub").

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9 Owner Database Data HKU Registry Communications Directory Name, , office, title -- ditto Research Output System (ROS) Publications data -- ditto -- ditto Awards, honours, prizes -- ditto Community Service DB Editorships, miscellaneous HKU Registry, Research Research Committee Grants Application System Grant, PI, Co-I, panel, keywords, funding, etc. HKU Graduate aeschool Postgraduate a supervision s Supervised students, s, DB thesis title, date, etc. Faculty, Department Staff profiles Research interests, pages picture, etc. HKU Communications & Public Affairs (CPAO) HKU Technology Transfer Office Media Contact Directory Expertise, languages spoken & written Patent data

10 EXTERNAL BIBLIOMETRICS Company Database Elsevier Scopus -- ditto BiomedExperts Thomson Reuters ResearcherID, Web of Science RePEc SSRN ACM Digital Library NIH Google Microsoft MathSciNet t PubMed Google Scholar MS Academic Search

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15 On any relevant search, entry for Hub usually comes at top of page

16 OTHER MEASURES OF VISIBILITY? Springer Open The University it of Hong Kong

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19 Springer s Report, November ) 2011 YTD total number of articles 2) 2011 YTD total average monthly article usage

20 HUB, DOWNLOADS OF SAME ARTICLES

21 THE HUB: A NEW KIND OF BEAST OA publications Yes, and

22 HKU KE S DATABASE OF VISIBLE RESEARCH Exchange hub to do, show & measure HKU KE Provides several key indicators on HKU KE Automated updates to departmental web sites

23 EXPERT FINDER Experts for media comment Area of Expertise, Languages spoken & written Collaborative & Contract Research Team building for grant applications Speaking engagements & opinion pieces Etc.

24 CURRENT RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM (CRIS) Decision support Policy making Assessing results Fund allocation Avoid duplications Etc. University Rankings Research Assessment Exercises Performance Appraisal

25 THE REPUTATION OF THE UNIVERSITY?

26 REPUTATION MANAGEMENT Institutional Personal Bibliometrics: Paper & Citation Count Peer Review

27 A WIN-WIN SOLUTION Libraries work to increase visibility & reputation All benefit The researchers The University The Libraries Measures of OA Measures of KE

28 HKU Colleagues 港大同僚 Thank You 謝謝您 Grazie спасибо شكرا لك 감사합니다 ध यव द Σε ευχαριστώ תודה 有り難うございます

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