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THE CONTRIBUTION OF OPEN ARCHIVES INITIATIVES AND INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
No full textOpen access refers to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature that are made available online to readers without access or restrictive barriers. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an in-depth look at one of the most immediate and cost-effective routes of providing open access to the literature, namely institutional self-archiving
Advantages of two new approaches for scientific e-publishing
No full textThis article tries to show the advantages of an alternative way for the publication of manuscripts, that is, the Metajournal. It is based on the following idea: authors of scientific journals can submit an abstract to this facility and editors and referees can routinely scan the Metajournal to find out good manuscripts. On the hand they can get in touch with the authors to publish the manuscript and on the other hand the author can freely choose the most adequate journal in which publish his or her research. As a result of this, a new role may appear in science, that is, the journal scanner or journal scout. However, The metajournal can also be used for those manuscripts that were rejected by journals. The editor of the journal that rejects a manuscript has the possibility to send it to The Metajournal, in this way it is available not only for editors and referees but for everybody
Participation in the Global Knowledge Commons - Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries and Publishers in Developing Countries
No full textDue to increasing Internet connectivity, developing countries are now getting access to scholarly and scientific publications and resources at a level that is unmatched historically. This is a significant development, particularly in areas of medical, agricultural, environmental sciences and development literature that are much needed if developing countries are to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Another significant development is the open access movement and the growing number of OAI compliant institutional repositories that promise to provide even greater access to resources that are otherwise inaccessible before. At the same time, these low cost technology and interoperability standards are providing great opportunities for libraries and publishers in developing countries to disseminate local research and knowledge. This presentation reviews these recent trends, discusses their significance for libraries in developing countries, and provides suggestions for researchers and information professionl in developing countries on how to actively participate in and contribute to the global knowledge commons
Reposit?riUM: implementing DSpace in Portuguese - lessons for the future and research pathways
No full textIn this paper we describe the implementation of the Minho University (UMinho) Institutional Repository (Reposit?riUM), Portugal. UMinho translated and has been using the first Portuguese version of DSpace, an Open Source software system developed in a partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hewlett-Packard (HP). The five phases established for the implementation plan are pointed out in this work (1. installation, translation, and configuration; 2. upload of thesis and dissertations; 3. establishment of pilot communities; 4. making the repository public, and 5. opening to the overall UMinho community), as well as, the reasons that led to the choice of the six pilot communities of different areas of knowledge (Information Systems; Polymers Engineering; Biological Engineering; Management, and one from the Humanities and another from the Social Sciences areas) to participate in this implementation period. In this paper we wish to share the lessons learnt, and the pathways for research, in particular for cross-cultural research, according to some questions and observations obtained during the first 10 months of experience. With this information as a background, some research pathways have been identified and are starting to be further developed in the context of MSc or PhD research at UMinho
From print to web to e-paper: the challenge of designing the e-newspaper
No full textThis paper presents future scenarios of use and design of the e-newspaper, i.e. the newspaper on epaper. These scenarios are based on experiences from prototyping e-newspaper interfaces and from a survey with newspaper designers and management. The findings show e.g. that the design from the printed edition and the functionality of the online newspaper were considered preferable attributes for the e-newspaper, and that mobility, interactivity, adjustment for special target groups and personalization were the most frequently suggested functionalities. Several issues regarding navigation, pagination, structure and overview were discussed during the prototyping, leading to layout suggestions for a one page 5.8 x 8.2 inches display with navigation both on the hardware and in the graphical user interface. Pagination was considered important as well as the ability to estimate the amount of content of the e-newspaper, and the possibility to return to the page from which an article was chosen to read. From the findings three future scenarios are proposed, for a) senior citizens in sparsely populated areas, b) business travelers, and c) young early adopters
DigitArq: creating and managing a digital archive
No full textIn this paper we present the steps followed in a project called DigitArq that aimed at building a centralised repository for archival finding aids. At the O?Porto?s District Archive, finding aids existed in several different formats and media. Migration was used to convert all the finding aids into a single normalised format based on an international standard ? EAD/XML. After migration, archival management software was developed to maintain the collected information and assist archivists in the creation of new finding aids. Archival finding aids are described by hierarchical structures which can easily be described with XML but present interesting issues while using Relational Databases. The relational data model employed is described in detail
Brazilian Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation
No full textThe communication and information technologies allow the documentation centers, libraries and other information units providers the recording and dissemination of its information. These initiatives were employed in an autonomous manner. As a result, the final users found difficulties in the full access to these information sources. If on the one hand, these technologies facilitate to information providers the record and dissemination in digital format and on the World Wide Web, on the other hand, they also facilitate the development of patterns and protocols which allows the integration of databases. In this context, the Open Archives Initiative was implemented to establish patterns and ideals, which allow the integration of information databases. This initiative came to be initially with the purpose of presenting a new alternative in scientific communication. However, the established patterns may also be used as a tool for the integration of remote databases, reason by which the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology(IBICT) has been continuously researching and adapting them to the country needs concerning the integrated dissemination of Scientific and Technological Information. The first initiative of IBICT using these patterns was the development and implementation, in the country, of the Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (BDTD). This experience demonstrated the potential of these patterns and ideals created by the Open Archives Initiative, because, besides the established patterns having allowed the integration of different initiatives by the Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations already developed in the country, even the BDTD may be integrated to two similar international initiatives the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation (NDLTD) and the Universidad de Chile. This one implements another model of Digital Library, as Cyberthesis, developed by the Universit? Lumi?re, which also uses the Harvesting Protocol from the Open Archives Initiative
Scientific electronic publishing in Cuba: a challenge that turned into a win
No full textIn 1992 Cuba was in its worst financial and economical crisis, which made it impossible to provide all Cuban hospitals and clinics even with international specialty journals. As an alternative it was decided to explore the possibilities electronic publishing could provide to alleviate this tough situation. As a response Infomed was born (http://www.sld.cu). Infomed is the national telematic network of the Public Health System in Cuba, based on a human knowledge network for health improvement. Its mission is to promote the high quality health care, education, research, and management by using the best available technologies. Moreover, Infomed integrates the Cuban Public Health System with the global network of health information. The action plan was to set up an integrated network of accessible health information in Cuba, based on new information technologies; to interconnect the most important Cuban health institutions and to connect them with Internet; to develop added value services in public health; and to integrate the Cuban public health experiences and results with the global electronic networks
Portuguese e-government initiatives: villages, towns, cities and the constitutions
No full textTraditionally, the interaction between government agencies and citizens or companies was made in governmental buildings, where a public employee receives all the requests. This scenario is gradually changing and evolving because of the rapid growth of use of new communication technologies. Thanks to this, the government-citizens interaction has been moving to considerably closer to the citizen, and sometimes it takes place on his home or working place via his personal computer and the internet. This paper explains two initiative of the Portuguese government in shortenning the distance between the government and the citizens: allowing a fast access to information on parliamentary initiatives that concern the creating, changing or extinguishing villages, towns, cities, districts or other administrative areas, and enabling the consulting of the current Portuguese Constitution online, with the possibility to navigate within their reviews, enabling the consult of every article that is (or was) active at a given time. The focus of this paper is implementation issues on both initiatives, from the projects specifications until their delivery to the Portuguese Parliament
A PKP Open Conference System: how a portable, open source conference management system can help to run a conference
No full textThe ?Open Conference System?, OCS, is an open source, free, web publishing tool which helps in planning, organizing and managing a conference. It allowed us to experience the benefits of two important trends today: sharing knowledge and open source. ElPub2003 as well as this years? ElPub2004 have been managed through this software. OCS allows the creation of a conference web site, editing and disseminating calls for papers, submission of abstracts and full papers, manage the reviewing process, and help with the registration process. The use of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) standards of metadata makes possible the indexation and search of the conference papers, which are incorporated to a universal library of databases for scholarly and public use