open access, deep web, and online collaboration in chinese studies: the foreast experience tao yang...
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Open Access, Deep Web, and Online Collaboration in Chinese Studies:
The FOREASt Experience
Tao Yang
Council on East Asian Libraries Annual Meeting
Philadelphia
March 25, 2010
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FOREASt Experience
A great irony…
• Tremendous growth of free and open access scholarly resources on the web– Open access journals
– Electronic theses and dissertations
– Disciplinary and institutional repositories
– Digital humanities & e-sciences
– Mass digitization
– Online government information
• But, can people find them?– Library websites or OPACs provide only selective coverage
– Google may not be able to retrieve many free web resources – the deep web problem
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FOREASt Experience
Deep Web: The Iceberg Analogy
Surface web:
Retrievable by general search engines
Deep web:
Not retrievable by general search engines
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A radical proposition…
• What if we build a virtual library – consisting entirely of free and open access resources
– selected and organized in the same way as commercial resources?
• Pros:– Can be used by librarians to conveniently choose most relevant
resources to populate their subject guides
– Can be readily incorporated as a distinctive collection to supplement local print collection and fee-based e-collection
– Can benefit users in all types of institutions, small and big
– Can be easily accessed by users anywhere, anytime, barrier-free
• Cons:– ???
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First-generation virtual libraries: Lessons learned• First-generation virtual libraries: starting to fade away
– East Asian WWW VL: Last updated Nov 11, 1999
– Portal to Asian Internet Resources: Last updated September 14, 2005
– Internet Guide for China Studies: Last updated June 22, 2009
• Lessons learned– Be very selective
– Be interactive
– Be collaborative
– Keep it small
– Be ready to adopt and migrate to new technologies
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FOREASt Experience
Project timeline
• 2005: Involved in internal discussions on what free resources to include on the library web site at Yale
• 2008: Started to talk about the idea with other East Asian librarians
• 2009-: Implementation– April: built http://foreast.wordpress.com
– June: public announcement to CEAL (100 resources)
– August: built http://www.foreast.org
• As of March 2010– 300 resources (journals and databases)
– 20,000 pageviews (comparable to major East Asian library websites)
– incorporated into 20 library and scholarly sites all over the world
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FOREASt Experience
SearchBrowse
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FOREASt Experience
Explore
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FOREASt Experience
Slide show
Resource list
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FOREASt Experience
Navigation Menu (same as
foreast.org)
Interactive features
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FOREASt Experience
Monthly Statistics: Pageviews
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FOREASt Experience
Geographical origins of FOREASt.org visitors
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FOREASt Experience
Use cases
• Librarians select resources from FOREASt to populate their own subject guides
• Librarians introduce FOREASt to their own users via web sites, database lists, and/or blogs
• Scholars incorporate FOREASt on their own web sites
• Librarians use FOREASt in their instruction sessions
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Final thought
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
--Proverb attributed to African origin