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1. Fundamentals of Open Access (OA) 2. E-LIS: Central Data Provider 3. METALIS: Central Services Provider 4. PLEIADI: National Services Provider I am going to talk about...

Fundamentals of Open Access: 

Fundamentals of Open Access OA literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review. The objective is the OA to peer-reviewed journal literature. How? Open-access journals Self-archiving.

First channel for Open Access: 

First channel for Open Access 1. OA journals – (Copyright Transfer Agreements) Creation of e-journal using OA tools: Open-source software /Support for OA e-publishing (alternative economic models) DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals http://www.doaj.org/ The SHERPA/ROMEO list site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Second channel for Open Access: 

Second channel for Open Access 2. Open Archives or repositories – (self-archiving) Data Providers (DP) There is open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives Institutional open archives: 548 (Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php) Central/subject/topic open archives: E-LIS, REPEC, arXiv… Service Providers (SP) (METALIS, PLEADI) Harvesters Services for cross searching

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Researchers can access the Post-Print if their university has a subscription to the Journal Refereed “Post-Print” Accepted, Certified, Published by Journal Impact cycle begins: Research is done Researchers write pre-refereeing “Pre-Print” Submitted to Journal Pre-Print reviewed by Peer Experts – “Peer-Review” Pre-Print revised by article’s Authors 12-18 Months by Tim Brody

E-LIS : Central Open Archive: 

E-LIS : Central Open Archive It was established in 2003 Based on the voluntary services of professionals in LIS coming from several countries (40 countries to date) It does not seek financial or commercial reward Aligned with the Open Access movement; sharing its philosophy, policies and tools. Based on Open Source (software) initiatives http://eprints.rclis.org/

Policies: 

Policies Formal control on metadata (Submission guidelines) Copyright metadata policies All works deposited in the E-LIS server remain the property of the author Authors who submit work are responsible for the documents they archive Deposit agreement Possibility to restrict access is also available Open submission policy Agreements with institutions and library associations in various countries

Organizational model: 

Organizational model E-LIS organisational structure is divided into three sections: Administrative section: strategic issues; policies and the impact on the LIS user community Editorial section: devoted to metadata quality Technical section: concentrated on software - its implementation, enhancement and development; addition of value-added functionality; and connection with other tools Each section has its own discussion list.

Editors: 

Editors Editors at National Level (languages) Control the quality of metadata; Promote self-archiving in their own countries; Contact with authors ; Assist authors in the self-archiving process Why at National Level? It is impossible to know the situation of OA in LIS in every country The reality is different and activities should be conducted accordingly Although the E-LIS interface is in English, contact with authors is more effective in their native language(s) 50 editors from 40 countries

Contents: 

Contents At the moment 3.010 documents Coming from: Africa (19) America (North and Central, 697) (South, 237) Asia (235) Europe (1830) Oceania (16) 62% of documents are refereed 2.469 post-prints 414 pre-prints 1.792 articles from 210 different journals 592 conference papers from 250 conferences 22 different types of documents 21 languages represented

Deposits: 

Deposits Submission on line (previous registration) Deposit by e-mail (E-LIS Staff) Not restrictions by country Not restrictions by language (English abstract) Contents accepted: any scientific or technical document, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities. The criteria for acceptance are: the documents have to be relevant to research in LIS fields they have the form of a finished document that is ready to be entered into a process of communication.

Some of the partners: 

Some of the partners

Technical issues: 

Technical issues EPrints Software version 2.3.7.1 (George) http://www.eprints.org/software/ EPrints complies with various different personalizations and configurations, Used by over 200 academic institutions worldwide Has exclusive pre-requisite open software and the public domain GNU Licence (Perl, Apache,MySql) The E-LIS server is hosted for free by the CILEA/AEPIC team (machines, technical services and backup) Full compatibility with OAI standards: Has adopted protocol OAI-PMH v. 2.0 Validated and registered within OAI

Additions to EPrints Software: 

Additions to EPrints Software More than 20 document types Metadata is configured on the basis of each document type Held in accordance with the harvesting dynamics based on the Dublin core Visible full metadata E-mail editor alert by country for documents in the buffer Full text document search Counter on home page (Perl script) Webalizer for statistics Different browsing views RSS feeds Reference linking

Recent developments: 

Recent developments Implementation of a browsing by country Expanding JITA (classification schema) to the second level Language search field Browsing by author/editor New layout New information organisation Service Provider for LIS (METALIS)

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Self-archiving information Tools About E-LIS Services Browsings Full text search Counter

Deposits / Visits: 

Deposits / Visits October 2005 135.861 visits 1.176.937 hits 4.500 visits per day

METALIS : Central Services Provider: 

METALIS : Central Services Provider Services Provider for LIS Done by Zeno Tajoli (AEPIC, CILEA) Part of the code is from scripts developed by Simeon Warner, Alessandro Tugnoli and UKOLN Services: Metadata crosswalks Simple and advanced search Setup OpenURL Resolver http://metalis.cilea.it/

METALIS : harvesting: 

METALIS : harvesting Data from: @rchiveSIC arXiv Caltech Library System Papers and Publications CNR Bologna Research Library CCSD theses-EN-ligne, France DLIST Documentation Research and Training Centre E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science memSIC

PLEIADI : National Services Provider: 

PLEIADI : National Services Provider PLEIADI, Portale per la Letteratura Elettronica Italiana Archivi e Depositi Istituzionali, objectives to improve access to the academic/content distributed in various open archives in Italy (data providers) to create a national platform for access to the various data providers through a unique interface delivery of value added services to the Italian academic and research community The services: a portal, harvesting, indexing & information retrieval, gateway Z.39.50, metadata crosswalks… http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/

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User Portal Receive data from users Provide Data to SP CILEA CASPUR document archiving metadata feeding Added-value metadata feeding document retrieval management management implementation development

Brief conclusion: 

Brief conclusion Technical level: Different ways (SP) to harvest metadata from (DP) Contents level: Stevan Harnad (ASOAF, 1st December 2005) self-archiving is a supplement, not a substitute of Scientific publication OA self-archiving is an “access” matter, not a publication matter Authors: they should be convinced Quality of metadata... Institutional level Critical issue: necessity of policies, strategies, guidelines to support OA