DLIST: Building an International Scholarly Communication Consortium for LIS Anita Sundaram Coleman, Ph.D. & Paul Bracke, M.L.S. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

School of Information Resources & Library Science & Arizona Health Sciences Library University of Arizona CALIBER Conference 2003

Goals  To serve as a repository for electronic resources in Library & Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT)  Two areas of special emphasis Information Literacy: Papers, Bibliographic Information Materials, Pathfinders, Tutorials Informetrics: Research publications and accompanying data sets

DLIST Nuts and Bolts  Eprints v.2.1. Developed at the University of Southampton  Principal Ideas Self-archiving Discipline Repository Interoperability

Advantages of depositing in DLIST Visibility and impact of deposited work increases. Barriers to access of materials in LIS and IT are lowered by making them freely available. A wide range of resources created by researchers and practitioners in LIS and IT are available. Global access to academic information is enabled. DLIST contents are accessible through the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

Who are we targeting?  Educators and Researchers in Library & Information Science and Information Technology can self-register and deposit their papers.  Practitioner partners can contribute ‘papers’, ‘bibliographies’, ‘pathfinders’, ‘help pages’, ‘guides’, ‘tutorials’ etc.

Materials Included in DLIST  Published papers  Data sets  Library Instruction and help materials  Pathfinders  Reports  Bibliographies

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Future Enhancements  Focus collection development on a ‘digital core’ collection for LIS.  Implement Citation Indexing  Implement GreenStone Digital Library full-text search.  Add subject editors to maintain quality and oversee deposits.  Long range goal: Separate collections within the archive.

Contact Information URL : Paul Bracke: +1 (520)

DLIST People Principle Investigator- Dr. Anita S. Coleman Project Manager- Paul Bracke Site Administrator- Subramaniam Karthik Logo Design - Lisa Waite Bunker European Liaisons- Maria Ines Cordeiro & Aida Slavic Partners- Dr. Mike Thelwall, Dr. Robert Williams Funding- Prop 301, ITCDI, University of Arizona

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