Hello colleagues, This article by Leo waaijers has been published earlier in First Monday vol 10. no. 12, December 2005. Full paper is available at the following link. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/waaijers/index.html Thanks, Manjunath _____________________________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104. Udupi Dist. Karnataka State, India Phone: 91-0820-2573551(off) 2575161(Res). manjunath@mail.tapmi.org; manju_tapmi@yahoo.com _____________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Manager Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:57 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] From Peter Suber's blog Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:40:31 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun@mssrf.res.in> As libraries incorporate OA, they become libratories Leo Waaijers, From Libraries to 'Libratories', Liber Quarterly, 16, 1 (2006). Only this abstract is free online, at least so far. While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the internet and the WWW, now is the age in which the big search engines and institutional repositories are gaining a firm footing. This heralds a new era in both the evolution of scholarly communication and its agencies themselves, i.e. the libraries. Until now libraries and publishers have developed a digital variant of existing processes and products, i.e. catalogues posted on the Web, scanned copies of articles, e-mail notification about acquisitions or expired lending periods, or traditional journals in a digital jacket. However, the new OAI repositories and services based upon them have given rise to entirely new processes and products, libraries transforming themselves into partners in setting up virtual learning environments, building an institution's digital showcase, maintaining academics' personal websites, designing refereed portals and - further into the future - taking part in organising virtual research environments or collaboratories. Libraries are set to metamorphose into 'libratories', an imaginary word to express their combined functions of library, repository and collaboratory. In such environments scholarly communication will be liberated from its current copyright bridle while its coverage will be both broader - including primary data, audiovisuals and dynamic models - and deeper, with cross-disciplinary analyses of methodologies and applications of instruments. Universities will make it compulsory to store in their institutional repositories the results of research conducted within their walls for purposes of academic reporting, review committees, and other modes of clarification and explanation. Big search engines will provide access to this profusion of information and organise its mass customisation. PS: The same issue of LQ contains a report by Raf Dekeyser on The LIBER Workshops on the "Open Archives Initiative" at CERN, Geneva. But it doesn't even have a free abstract online, or not so far. Arun _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum