Hong Kong Scholars Hub
We interviewed David Palmer, Systems Librarian at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), to learn more about development of the Hong Kong Scholars Hub and the challenges this has highlighted.
The Hong Kong Scholars Hub provides simple, open access to the intellectual output of HKU, which publishes around 3,000 papers a year in scholarly peer reviewed journals. The Hub currently captures a small percentage of these because there is no deposit policy from HKU, and if the author agrees to placing his work online via the Hub, the publisher must also permit this.
Searching in Web of Science for Chinese names is a particular obstacle for HKU researchers, and converting names from Chinese characters into Roman text has been a formidable obstacle to research discovery: 20 researchers could have different Chinese script names, but when Romanized they all use the same form: "Chan, KW". David Palmer sought help from Thomson Reuters to tackle the problem, and HKU's subsequent rollout of ResearcherID for all HKU scholars was the first of its kind.
David's team has also implemented the Web of Science API so that articles in the Hub matching those in Web of Science will now display the citation counts from Web of Science. Future plans include bringing in more article and author level metrics from other databases, social network tagging by scientists and coverage of blogs written by scientists.
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