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James Hardiman Library Nuachtlitir na Leabharlainne James Hardiman Library Newsletter Issue 35, August 2009 INSIDE Our evolving Library catalogue Open for business ARAN update Focus on Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies The move to online Library newspaper holdings STM researchers – measuring success Improve your chances of funding Staff Publications Recent acquisitions Students have their say Connacht Tribune presentation to NUI, Galway. 1911 Census for Galway now online Mike Faherty hangs up his keys IReL: a key tool for research in Ireland Library Exhibitions JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY Our evolving Library catalogue How do we improve the Library catalogue? Can the Faceted search leverages the work of this and past Studies have demonstrated that users, including catalogue continue to add value in a rapidly changing generations of NUI Galway cataloguers. For many years academic researchers, generally only examine the first information landscape? As Librarians, we know we have our catalogers have performed the equivalent of page of a set of retrieved search results. Accordingly, the to respond to the rising expectations of our users, the sophisticated semantic tagging using subject headings ranking or order in which search results are displayed is increase in new kinds of digital resources and a nascent from a controlled vocabulary. It was a technology ahead crucially important. Google has shown how valuable a revolution in scholarly publishing. Such wholesale of its time, which delivers move value now than ever modern relevance ranking algorithm can be. This change demands a radical rethink on the facilities and before. Search for a term, and this descriptive metadata criterion was to the fore in selection of this new Library services the catalogue actually provides. Our ultimate from the set of retrieved records is ‘sliced and diced’, catalogue. We are striving for the seemingly magical aim must be the provision of the optimal launch-pad for ‘on-the-fly’. The resulting output gives users a powerful properties that the best modern retrieval algorithms NUI Galway's scholarly activity. insight into how the set is composed, allowing them to employ to "read the mind" of the user and present zero in on what we have that best matches what they exactly what they want. Enter e-Knowledge 2.0, NUI Galway's new Library want. catalogue based on the Primo system from Exlibris. These are just a selection of the many features of this In order to leverage the NUI Galway scholarly- powerful state-of-the-art system. We take our e-Knowledge 2.0 uses a whole panoply of recent community's input, and further assist retrieval precision responsibility of providing the launch-pad for NUI advances in search engine technology and brings them and augment bibliographic description, we now provide Galway's scholarly activity very seriously. We believe we to bear on our physical and virtual collections. In facilities for user contributed semantic tagging, and user have selected the best tool available to achieve this. You addition, as librarians, we have listened to users, who contributed book reviews. can judge for yourself by taking an e-Knowledge 2.0 have asked why they cannot search books and journals testdrive at http://ek.nuigalway.ie at the same time. We have selected a system A highly sophisticated Did-You-Mean facility is now incorporating the best elements of Web 2.0 to create a available. This suggests appropriate search terms when streamlined user experience. e-Knowledge 2.0 also zero hits are retrieved for a query. Utilising statistical Peter Corrigan, comes with many embedding options and facilities for natural-language-processing techniques and calculated Head of Library Systems exploiting web services. on our actual catalogue content, this locally computed, E [email protected] and continuously updated word model offers the most T 091 492497 EXT 2497 Some Highlights locally relevant suggestions to user input. This new catalogue is now a single point of discovery for all resources: books, electronic journals and databases, The new catalogue was designed to be embedded within Do you want to comment? Find this article on our including NUI Galway originated research papers. the University's virtual learning environment, HardiBlog - http://hardimanlibrary.blogspot.com/ Blackboard, and within the Library WWW site. JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY ARAN update- NUI Galway’s institutional repository Library staff have been working closely with scholarly communication from the University freely and centres to enable them to deposit their papers in individual researchers and research centres to make and easily accessible and discoverable. The Library is ARAN in order to meet commitments to funders. available journal articles and other scholarly also working closely with the Irish Universities communications on NUI Galway’s open access Association and staff from the six other Irish If you or your School/Centre would like to deposit institutional repository ARAN. universities in the setting up of a national portal to material in ARAN, either as an individual researcher Irish research. The national portal, which will be or as a group, please contact: While the project is still in its early stages and is yet to launched early in 2010, will harvest metadata from be formally launched, papers from a wide range of individual universities’ institutional repositories and Institutional Repository Librarian disciplines are already being made available on will link to full-text papers in those repositories. Fergus Fahey ARAN. Browsing ARAN by discipline, a user can E [email protected] access research outputs from a range of fields Increasingly, funders are demanding that scholarly T 091 495961 EXT 5961 including engineering, biomedical science, communications related to research they fund be information technology, social science, business and made available through open access. The national http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie English literature. portal will include a feature which enables a user to ARAN is already showcasing the range and quality of browse by funder. The Library has already begun research carried out in NUI Galway and makes working closely with a number of research institutes Top 5 most popular items in ARAN for June 2009 # AUTHORS TITLE UNIT SUBMITTER VIEWS 1 Fitzgibbon, Joan; Morrison, John J.; Modulation of human uterine smooth muscle NCBES Smith, Terry J. 60 Smith, Terry J.; O'Brien, Margaret; cell collagen contractility by thrombin, Y-27632, TNF alpha and indomethacin 2 Dayong Gao, Madden, Michael G. Arrhythmia identification from ECG signals School of Information Technology Michael G. Madden 59 Schukat,Michael; Chambers; Des with a neural network classifier based on Lyons, Gerard a Bayesian framework 2 Allyn Fives Human flourishing: the grounds of moral judgment School of Political Science & Sociology Allyn Fives 59 4 Munroe, Daniel T.; Multi-class and Single-class classification School of Information Technology Michael G. Madden 57 Madden, Michael G. approaches to vehicle model recognition from images 5 Devlin, Sarah; Leader, Geraldine; Comparison of behavioral intervention and School of Psychology Geraldine Leader 55 Healy, Olive sensory-integration therapy in the treatment of self-injurious behavior. JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY The move to online The need for efficiency requires us to make the best We have also analysed our current journal possible use of space, financial resources and staff subscriptions and are moving as many as we can to an resources. The Library questions the purchase, online-only basis. Consultation on the titles in processing and storage of print journals which are question will take place over the coming months. also available and well-used online, and whose long- Already, significant financial savings have been term online access is guaranteed. identified through this move, by the cancellation of print journals whose online equivalent is available to Following extensive consultation, the Library has us for free via IReL. discarded extensive print back-runs of journals, where those journals are available securely and permanently online via JSTOR. Since the Library is at full capacity, Monica Crump, the space that has been freed up allows us to continue Head of Bibliographic Services to add newly published material to our collection and E [email protected] potentially add study spaces. T 091 493765 EXT 3765 STM researchers – measuring success Whether you are preparing a funding proposal, ■ Keep abreast of the evolving models and metrics You can maximize your paper’s Google Page Rank by writing your annual report, or showcasing your and how you can use them to your best advantage. depositing your papers into ARAN (Access to discipline strengths to inform local or international ■ Using key citation indices to extract bibliometric Research at NUI Galway), the University’s benchmarking, the Library can support you and your data to support strategic, discipline and individual institutional repository. team in getting the most from the metrics to benchmarking activities. demonstrate your performance in a number of ways. For more on ARAN see page 3 See also the Library’s tailored workshop series for We can provide one-to-one and group advocacy PhDs, Post Docs and research staff and associates: To find out more, contact: specific to your discipline in a number of ways: http://tinyurl.com/nlev8c Rosarie Coughlan, Research Support Librarian ■ Best practice in interpreting, applying and We can work with you and your team to identify (Science, Technology and Medicine) exploiting citation metrics to evaluate your customised research performance profiles specific to E [email protected] research and others. your discipline and school. T 091 495697 EXT 5697 JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY Staff Publications Students have their say A Staff Publications display stand is located to the In March this year, the Library launched a survey of There was interest in training in the use of left of the foyer in the James Hardiman Library.