[LIS-Forum] _Proceedings of Major Open Access Conference Published_

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:46:56 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck at iastate.edu>

The proceedings of the ICSTI/INIST/INSERM Seminar on Open Access to
Scientific and Technical Information:State of the Art and Future held
January 23-24, 2003 at the French Ministry of Research, Carr des Sciences,
Paris, was recently published in a special issue of _Information Services
& Use_ (v 23 (n. 2-3) (ISSN 0167-5265)  (IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl
).

The issue includes the following major themes and notable papers:

**Open Access: What Does It Mean for STI Distribution**
o       Open Access: marginal or core phenomenon? a commercial publisher's
        view
(Pieter Bolman)

o       Open publishing: how publishers are reacting (Sally Morris)
        A brief overview of the OAI protocol and its potential impact
(Andy Powell)

**Open Access: Economic Models and Legal Implications**

o    Ingenta's economic and technical models for providing institutional
     OAarchives (Geoffrey Bilder)

       Open Access publishing (Jan Velterop)
o      Libraries and institutional infrastructure for Open Access services
        (Elmar Mittler)
o      The legal framework for access to STI (Thomas Dreier)

**Open Access: Challenges for the Scientific Community**

o       Mathematics and databases: Open Access (Laurent Guillop)
o       The Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (Daniel Charnay)
o       The research-impact cycle (Stevan Harnad)

**Open Access: Issues for Developing Countries**
o       Round Table: Open Access issues for developing countries  (Kay
        Raseroka, Barbara Kirsop, Jean-Jacques Pierrat, Georges Malamoud, Barbara Aronson,
        Manfred Spiesberger)

**Open Access: Projects and Initiatives**
o       Institutional repositories and Open Access: the future of
        scholarly communication (David Prosser)
o       The Budapest Initiative for Open Access (Jean-Claude Gudon)
o       FIGARO and Open Access to electronic information objects (Stefan
        Gradmann)
o       E-BioSci: Semantic networks of biological information (Les
        Grivell).

The issue also contains a lengthy review titled "Open Access to Scientific
and Technical Information: The State of the Art" prepared by Jack Franklin,
ASFRAbv, Edam,

The Netherlands (http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/en/etat_art.php),
transcripts of Questions & Answers sessions, welcome and closing
addresses, and a summary of discussions with commentary.

An OCLC record for the issue is available [OCLC # 53966590] thanks to my
Cataloging Colleagues at the ISU Library! I encourage all who own the
journal to analyze it for their local OPAC.

**Ironically, while the proceedings is a major contribution to the Open
Access literature and movement, it is *not* Open Access [:-( ]. However,
some authors have self-archived a version of their presentations [:-)]**
[Google Author/Title to see who has self-archived]

*** Perhaps, in the spirit of the Season, the publisher would make this
issue available as their Free (Electronic) Sample Issue - How About It IOS
Press? ***

IMHO This is an important collection that should be required reading in
the New Year for every librarian and those who wish they were {:->

Joy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
New Year Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011




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