[LIS-Forum] A talk by Imma Subirats of FAO on E-LIS (fwd)

[Francis Jayakanth]

Imma Subirats Coll, an information management specialist at the Food and 
Agriculture Organization, FAO of the United Nations, http://www.fao.org/, 
Coordinator of E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: 
http://eprints.rclis.org/ will share her experiences in managing the E-LIS, 
world's largest open access archive for LIS. You are invited for the talk.

Date: Saturday, 24 Feruary, 2007

Time: 11 AM

Vanue: NCSI Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore

For more details about the speaker, please visit:
http://openlib.org/home/subirats/

[Abstract]

E-LIS is an open access archive for library and information science.
With over 5,100 documents as of February 2007, E-LIS is the world's
largest archive for LIS.  Over half the documents in E-LIS are
peer-reviewed.  E-LIS is particularly strong in English and Spanish
language documents, but supports over 22 languages.  With this
multilingual support and a global team of volunteer editors, E-LIS has
significant diversity in content, an advantage over traditional,
english-based LIS resources.  Not surprising, this tool designed by
and for librarians features robust and user-friendly search options.
Lack of phrase searching, and pointing to a cross-archiving searching
tool no longer supported when much better options are available, are
identified as areas for improvement.

[References]

Bassi, Maria Cristina and Subirats Coll, Imma and De Robbio, Antonella
and Krichel, Thomas (2005) E-LIS : E-prints in Library and Information
Science. In Proceedings 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, Oslo
(Norway). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004497/

De Beer, Jennifer A. (2005) Expanding (y)our field with E-LIS. In
Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (WCHELIG)
Winter Workshop: Getting published Cape Town (South Africa).
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004033/

De Robbio, Antonella and Subirats Coll, Imma (2005) E-LIS : an
international open archive towards building open digital libraries.
High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (11/2005).
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004476/

Medeiros, Norm (2004) A repository of our own: the E-LIS e-prints
archive. OCLC Systems & Services 20 (2): pp.58-60.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001655/

Arencibia Jorge, Ricardo and Santillán Aldana, Julio and Subirats
Coll, Imma (2005) Iniciativas de acceso abierto en Ciencias de la
Información y Documentación : evolución y perspectivas de E-LIS.
Revista Española de Documentación Científica 28(2):pp. 221-232.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004475/
Subirats Coll, Imma and Barrueco Cruz, José Manuel (2004) Un archivo
abierto en ciencias de la documentación e información. El Profesional
de la Información 13(5):pp. 346-352.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002472/


  - Francis

NCSI, IISc
Bangalore