E-LIS: an Eprints LIS Repository
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The document summarizes the E-prints LIS Repository, which is an open access archive and repository for Library and Information Science (LIS) materials. It is maintained by a team of editors from around the world and contains a variety of content types, including journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. The repository aims to promote open access and self-archiving of LIS works. It provides free archiving and access to help increase the visibility and impact of research in the LIS field. Users can search and access materials in the repository without needing to register.
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E-LIS: an Eprints LIS Repository
- 1. E-prints LIS Repository by Fatima Darries 11 th Annual LIASA Conference, Bloemfontein, 30 September 2009
- 2. Outline What Who – The Team How - Depositing submission What – database content Who are the users How to search
- 5. What is E-LIS Open access, international, archive and repository Free access and free archiving for all For LIS- In addition to traditional Library Science subjects, E-LIS also includes all technical and applied disciplines relating to the Librarianship and Information Science world
- 6. Why E-LIS Evolution of DoIS, Documents of Information Science, service providing access to articles and conference proceedings Promote Open Access and Self Archving Compliment traditional publishing Compliments Institutional Repositories Online availability Increased visibility of authors
- 7. Why E-LIS Online availability increase impact of your research Studies confirm increase in citation, see the OpCit Project’s “Effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies” http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
- 8. Who - team Imma Subirat, Chief Executive, Italy Antonela De Robbio, Admin Board, Italy Thomas Krichel, Admin Board, US Jose Manuel Barruero Cruz, Administrator, Spain
- 9. Who … team Administrative Board, the chair is Jose`e Co-ordinator of the country editor, Imma Subirat Technical board – responsible for service offered by E-LIS Thematic editors, chaired by Thomas Krichel Chief Executive Officer, Imma Subirat
- 10. Who … editors Country editors – 64 from 42 countries quality control of metadata Promote self-archiving Assist authors in the self-archiving process Volunteer No financial benefit Work cooperatively
- 11. Who – Team SA Jennifer De Beers – March 2004 Fatima Darries October 2005, co-editor 2007, primary editor Wynand van der Walt 2007 co-editor
- 12. Contents … submission E-LIS repository accepts any scientific or technical document Published or unpublished Librarianship, Information Science and Technology and related activities In any language
- 13. Contents Criteria for acceptance Documents should be relevant to research in LIS Fields and that they have the form of a finished document that is ready to be entered into a process of communication
- 14. Contents … Type Books Book chapters Preprints Journal articles Conference proceedings Conference papers Conference posters Presentations Working papers Newspaper/magazine articles Guides/manuals Tutorials Bibliographies Library Instructional material Datasets Syllabi
- 16. Content … Country Not enough SA content in the repository!
- 17. E-LIS – what others say Peter Jasco Review of E-LIS on Peter Jasco Shelf in 2007 available at http://www.galegroup.com/reference/peter/200705/e-lis.htm Compares E-LIS with other LIS Open Access resources, such as smaller DLIST repository and the larger EBSCO’s LISTA. Both E-LIS and DLIST contain documents not available in LISTA
- 18. E-LIS -what other say Strengths International, multilingual coverge JITA Classification Scheme, exceptional browsing functionality More than half of the content at the time was peer-reviewed.
- 19. E-LIS … in other places Rated as one of top 3 Subject Repositories according to the January 2008 Webometrics Ranking Industry trends: Subject repositories Top Ranking. http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.phpnews_id=217
- 20. Content … Subjects Most arguments regarding the building of digital libraries, tools and scope, electronic publishing items, techniques and methodologies from metadata description to preservation, archiving to copyright, have place into E-LIS
- 21. Who - users Only submitter have to register! Complete registration form Receive confirmation e-mail Respond to confirmation e-mail (i.e. confirm your registration) Once registered, sign on Go through submission workflow Country (metadata) Editor (approves / rejects / returns to author to modify) before/if submission is accepted into the archive Jennifer De Beer – http://eprints.rclis.org/4033/2/DeBeerJenniferWCHELIGwshop14Jun2005.pdf
- 24. Searching E-LIS Searching by
- 26. Staying up to date RSS feed in your aggregator Facebook Twitter
- 27. Fatima.Darries[at]up.ac.za, Darriesf[at]yahoo.com This presentation is available at