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IDCC19 Lightning Talk We can help you with that - overcoming the challenges of finding research outputs Michelle Zwagerman , Director of Operations, APO APO can help you Findings from the ARC LIEF Linked Semantic Platforms (LSP) project


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IDCC19 Lightning Talk We can help you with that

  • overcoming the challenges of finding research outputs

Michelle Zwagerman, Director of Operations, APO

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Findings from the ARC LIEF “Linked Semantic Platforms” (LSP) project which seeks to address researcher’s need to find research outputs.

Agenda: 1. What is APO 2. What is the data need 3. What is LSP

APO can help you

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30,000+ peer-reviewed journals and 3 million articles published each year

Trade and academic book publishing Academic journals

Still only around 30% open access…

Traditional publishing products

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Huge but unrecognised publishing industry (grey literature)

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Participants in policy & practice debate Gov Political parties Gov Depts. & Agencies Universities & Research Centres NGOs Charities Advocacy groups Lobbyists Advisors Think tanks Consultants & research cos Industry bodies & advisors Media

Use research & analysis Produce research & analysis Commission research & analysis Disseminate research & analysis

“Governments cannot make policy effectively without the involvement of non-state actors”(Maddison & Denniss 2013p. 90).

Many players in the policy ecosystem

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Source: Mailchimp subscribers March 2018

Established in 2002 by social science researchers to collect the increasing amount

  • f grey literature

produced by Gov, NGOs, University research centres, think tanks, consultants and more...

apo.org.au About APO

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  • 38,000 resources
  • 5,000 organisations
  • 26,000 authors

Sending newsletters to over 16,000 subscribers and the websites receives over 1 million page views p.a

Currently APO contains

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  • Dissemination of their own research data
  • Connecting the research data to the publication
  • Browse other’s research data
  • Finding the experts to assist with interpreting the data

But what more do researchers need?

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  • New and extended policy research

collections

  • Connections across existing

research infrastructure projects using FAST, DOIs and other standards

  • New tools and infrastructure for

discovery and analysis

Linked Semantic Platforms (LSP) 2018–19

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  • Dissemination of Datasets
  • Cataloguing by topic
  • Semantic searching
  • Linking data with publications

We are building the tools

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