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ETH E-Collection - an Innovative Publication Platform for Scientists Karlovy Vary, elpub 2002

ETH E-Collection - an Innovative Publication Platform for Scientists Karlovy Vary, elpub 2002 Ursula Jutzi. ETH Library. Functions - main library of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Swiss national centre for scientific and technical information

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ETH E-Collection - an Innovative Publication Platform for Scientists Karlovy Vary, elpub 2002

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  1. ETH E-Collection - an Innovative Publication Platform for Scientists • Karlovy Vary, elpub 2002 • Ursula Jutzi

  2. ETH Library • Functions - main library of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Swiss national centre for scientific and technical information • Collection - 5.6 million items - 6000 journals (over 5200 online full-text) - 130 multidisciplinary, bibliographic databases - over 700 e-books

  3. ETH World: Functions • provide a virtual campus for ETH Zurich • augment the present physical locations with a virtual space • support the activities of the ETH community • create a universal virtual communication and cooperation platform

  4. ETH E-Collection: Aims • provide a platform for documents published outside traditional publishing houses (grey literature) • make publications easily available on the Internet • store electronic documents of the ETH Zurich centrally and catalogue them according to international standards • easily-searchable modern research instrument

  5. Milestones • October 2000: project initiation with doctoral theses of the ETH Zurich • September 2001: first hundred full-text documents online (not doctoral theses) • January 2002: official start of the ETH E-Collection with new Web design • Summer 2002: intranet solution on new platform upload server

  6. Acquisition: Policy • no central policy for deposition of electronic documents with the library • doctoral students must present the library with print copies – provision of an electronic version is optional • library will digitise printed documents

  7. Acquisition: PR Activities • telephone marketing • posters, flyers • ETH World luncheon • quarterly mailings • specialised press • presentations

  8. Technical Implementation

  9. Technical Framework • Hardware • - Dell PowerEdge 4600 • - 2 Intel XEON Processor 1.8 GHz • - 2 GB RAM • RAID 5 Disk Array 420 GB • Software • - Windows 2k • - Apache 2 • - Perl

  10. Documents

  11. NEBIS Catalogue (User View)

  12. NEBIS Catalogue (MARC-Format)

  13. Extract Perl Program

  14. Usage: Analysis • Not counted - search-engine accesses are not counted • IP addresses with more then 5000 accesses are not counted • Counted with limitations - GET-requests with result-code 2xx and 3xx - requests with similar parameters (type, number, name, part) from the same IP-address are counted as two accesses if there is a time gap of more than 1200 sec (= 20 min) between requests

  15. Usage

  16. Usage

  17. Future: Cooperation with OAI

  18. International Networking

  19. ETH E-Collectionhttp://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/Contactmailto:e-collection@library.ethz.chAuthormailto:jutzi@library.ethz.ch

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