Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:46:56 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan
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
