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The Dimension of Electronic Interlibrary Loan With…

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The Dimension of Electronic Interlibrary Loan :

« With the latest progression of information communication technologies, the document delivery system is constantly changing its trait day by day. This paper discusses the current practice of interlibrary loan and document delivery service by some leading libraries and information centers in various parts of the world. Moreover, it explores into newly developed resource-sharing tools that are becoming viable in execution of ILL services. Furthermore, the paper carefully examines how professionals engaged in rendering interlibrary loan services are becoming expert searchers day by day in providing instant and most valuable reference service through modern information and communication technologies. »

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/15720

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Measuring the Quality of Electronic Journals This…

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Measuring the Quality of Electronic Journals :

« This paper presents the methodology developed to create a system to evaluate academic electronic journals. This methodology was developed in two stages. In the first stage, a system to evaluate electronic journals was created. The criteria framework and the indicators for assessment for academic electronic journals were selected and defined. According to this framework, several questions were designed to measure each indicator and, as a result, an instrument to evaluate academic electronic journals was built. In the second stage, this instrument was validated by 16 editors of electronic journals of different countries and different areas of knowledge that were considered as judges to evaluate clarity, importance, relevance and coverage of each question, indicator and criteria. This instrument was distributed by e‑mail. The opinions given by the judges were processed and then used to help in the construction of a new instrument that is ready to be presented to the Mexican Council of Scientific Research in order to evaluate Mexican academic electronic journals. »

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/15699

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Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research…

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Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections :

« University libraries are under pressure to ensure that their strategies and services to support researchers are aligned with the parent organization’s research goals. Important to researchers are not only research information needs — which necessarily underpin their research — but also the discoverability and accessibility of their own research outputs. While libraries have a history of designing discovery systems, new research paradigms are presenting both challenges and opportunities for libraries to reconceptualise such systems within a broader context. This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed. »

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/wolski/05wolski.html

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Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation Assessing Current Practices…

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Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries :

« In spring 2010, authors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted a national survey on digital preservation of Institutional Repository (IR) materials among Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions. Examining the current practices of digital preservation of IR materials, the survey of 72 research libraries reveals the challenges and opportunities of implementing digital preservation for IRs in a complex environment with rapidly evolving technology, practices, and standards. Findings from this survey will inform libraries about the current state of digital preservation for IRs. »

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may11/yuanli/05yuanli.html

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Use made of open access journals by Indian…

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Use made of open access journals by Indian researchers to publish their findings :

« Most of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all seven Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, 10 BioMed Central (BMC) journals and Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports. Indian crystallographers have published more than 2,000 structure reports in Acta Crystallographica, second only to China in number of papers, but have a much better citations per paper average than USA, Britain, Germany and France, China and South Korea. India’s contribution to BMC and PLoS journals, on the other hand, is modest at best. We suggest that the better option for India is institutional self-archiving. »

URL : http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10may2011/1297.pdf

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The FAO Open Archive

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Since 1998, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been publishing its electronic publications in the FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR). The electronic publishing workflow is maintained by the Electronic Information Management System (EIMS). The EIMS-CDR holds more than 38 500 documents and is the gateway to FAO’s publications. The EIMS-CDR coexists with the FAODOC – the online catalogue for documents produced by FAO. FAODOC catalogues and indexes both electronic and printed documents while the EIMS-CDR manages full text documents and a minimal set of metadata. This paper discusses the merger of the EIMS-CDR and the FAODOC into a unique FAO Open Archive based on the integration of the electronic publishing and the bibliographic cataloguing requirements.

The FAO Open Archive will be the foundation for the collection, management, maintenance and timely dissemination of material published by FAO. To improve the effectiveness of the proposed repository, it is necessary to streamline the current electronic publishing workflow. The merger of the EIMS-CDR and the FAODOC will strengthen FAO’s role as a knowledge dissemination organization. Especially, as one of the principal tasks of the FAO is to efficiently collect and disseminate information regarding food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries and forestry.

URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/15652