1. Open archives for Library and Information Science
E-LIS Team

2. 1. We are going to talk about...
Are our colleagues following open access movement?
Can we say that LIS have open access?
What is the situation at the moment in LIS?
Open archives in Library and Information Science
E-LIS
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Lund University (Sweden)

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2. Open archives in LIS (1)
@rchiveSIC
330 documents (66 unpublished/264 published or in press)
centred in France
french collaboration project between several research institution
Eprints software
mémSIC
60 documents (memories)
DLIST
117 documents (49 unpublished/68 published or in press)
Accept only documents in english
School of Information Resources and Library Science and Arizona Health Sciences Library (University of Arizona).
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2. Open archives in LIS (2)
Caltech Library System Papers and Publications
23 documents (published or in press)
part of the Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives) project (California Institute of Technology).
Eprints software
LDL Librarians' Digital Library
163 documents
Located in India at the Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute of Bangalore
Based on DSpace platform
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3. E-LIS
Open access archive for E-prints of Library and Information Science and related disciplines
Created in January 2003 by RcLIS infrastructure
Hosted by CILEA (Italy)
International effort without
language restrictions
geographical restrictions
At the moment
812 documents (164 unpublished/648 published or in press)
236 registered users
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3.1. Characteristics
Based in the voluntary work of people with different backgrounds
Managed by a international team made up of professionals from countries like: Spain, Italy, United States of America, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia…
Non-commercial orientation
Based in the spirit of the open source initiative in Computing
Built using the EPrints software (2.3.3 HOD version)
JITA classification schema
Also used by CNR Bologna Library EPrint server and CALTECH
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7. 3.2. Criteria for acceptance
Any scientific or technical document, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities...it means...
relevant to research in LIS fields
form of a finished document that is ready to enter into a process of communication.
papers in any language
preprints (pre-refereed journal paper), postprints (refereed journal paper), conference papers, book chapters, technical reports/ departmental working papers, and news paper and magazine articles.
Depositor should be the author/one of the authors of the deposited publication.
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3.3. Copyright
All work on E-LIS server remains the property of the author.
Submitting authors will be responsible of being sure the documents they archive haven't any restriction in their electronic distribution.
Deposit agreement :
For work being deposited by its own author
For work being deposited by someone other than its author:
We encourage giving open access where possible, but we do offer the possibility for the authors to restrict access.
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3.4. Visits per month
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3.5. Type of documents
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3.6. Growing
The data is based on the datestamp of records harvested from the repositories using Celestial
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12. 3.7. The present...The future... The metadata
Subject Open Archive (LIS)
Import metadata of Institutional Repositories
Import metadata from library and information science open archives
Crosswalks
Improving the quality of metadata
Are we librarians or what?
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13. 3.8. The present...the future... The documents
Published documents:
Exhaustive repository for peer-reviewed documents
Unpublished documents:
Editorial team by subject-specific referee...
Criteria of language?
Criteria of country?
LIS bibliography ...
For every country or subject or both of them?
What will be the consequences of each decision?
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4. The authors
The most complicated topic...
At the moment open journals (DOAJ)
”Special” authors in LIS
Most of them aren't researchers at universities = no access to institutional repositories
How can we spread open access in our institutions if we don´t have open access in own profession?
After 1 year...
252 users registered in E-LIS
Only 60 have deposited their documents
AGREEMENTS!!!!!!!
So... what is the future of open access in LIS like?
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10. Partners in E-LIS
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