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Bringing scholarly communication in kicking and screaming into the Internet age

Bringing scholarly communication in kicking and screaming into the Internet age. Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel. Structure of this talk. Digital libraries for scholarly communication why what which The example of RePEc Digital libraries for Basque Studies.

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Bringing scholarly communication in kicking and screaming into the Internet age

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  1. Bringing scholarly communication in kicking and screaming into the Internet age Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

  2. Structure of this talk • Digital libraries for scholarly communication • why • what • which • The example of RePEc • Digital libraries for Basque Studies

  3. Digital Libraries (DL) • Organised collections of digital contents • Often accessible over the Internet • Allow synchronous access to data by any number of users • Of interest to scholars because they allow them to exchange information • provide an alternative to commercial publication

  4. DL may avoid the Faustian Bargain • Scholars produce work for free. • Scholars review for free. • Scholars buy back their own work from the publishers. • Academics pay twice!

  5. Some disciplines have organised DLs • arXiv.org • NCSTRL • CCSB • RePEc

  6. arXiv.org • Founded by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 • based at Los Alamos National Laboratory • completely centralised collection • many mirrors of the archive • over 120,000 papers

  7. NCSTRL • Stands for Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library • uses a software that implements a distributed protocol called Dienst • has about 10,000 papers online • shares a common set called CORR

  8. Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies • Uses BibTeX bibliographies snarfed of the Internet • Extensive efforts to remove duplicate records • gives access to over 30,000 documents • lacks a coherent structure

  9. ReP Ec • Decentralised • Contributors only use standard protocols • Is not limited to document but aims to describe the whole discipline

  10. RePEcprinciple • Many archives • archives offer metadata about digital objects (mainly working papers) • One database • The data from all archives forms one single logical database despite the fact that it is held on different servers. • Many services • users can access the data through many interfaces. • providers of archives offer their data to all interfaces at the same time. This provides for an optimal distribution.

  11. WoPEc EconWPA DEGREE S-WoPEc NBER CEPR US Fed in Print IMF OECD MIT University of Surrey CO PAH RePEc is based on 130+ archives

  12. …to form one dataset... • over 80,000 items in over 1,000 series, contains working paper, published paper, software, personal and institutional data • largest distributed free source about online scientific publications, over 23,000 electronic papers

  13. BibEc and WoPEc Decomate Z39.50 service NEP: New Economics Papers Inomics IDEAS RuPEc EDIRC HoPEc RePEc is used in many services

  14. … describes documents Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Title: Dynamic Aspect of Growth and Fiscal Policy Author-Name: Thomas Krichel Author-Person: RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel Author-Email: T.Krichel@surrey.ac.uk Author-Name: Paul Levine Author-Email: P.Levine@surrey.ac.uk Author-WorkPlace-Name: University of Surrey Classification-JEL: C61; E21; E23; E62; O41 File-URL: ftp://www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/ pub/RePEc/sur/surrec/surrec9601.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Creation-Date: 199603 Revision-Date: 199711 Handle: RePEc:sur:surrec:9601

  15. … describes persons (HoPEc) Template-Type: ReDIF-Person 1.0 Name-Full: KRICHEL, THOMAS Name-First: THOMAS Name-Last: KRICHEL Postal: 1 Martyr Court 10 Martyr Road Guildford GU1 4LF England Email: t.krichel@surrey.ac.uk Homepage: http://gretel.econ.surrey.ac.uk Workplace-Institution: RePEc:edi:desuruk Author-Paper: RePEc:sur:surrec:9801 Author-Paper: RePEc:sur:surrec:9601 Author-Paper: RePEc:rpc:rdfdoc:concepts Author-Paper: RePEc:rpc:rdfdoc:ReDIF Handle: RePEc:per:1965-06-05:THOMAS_KRICHEL

  16. … describes institutions (EDIRC) Template-Type: ReDIF-Institution 1.0 Primary-Name: University of Surrey Primary-Location: Guildford Secondary-Name: Department of Economics Secondary-Phone: (01483) 259380 Secondary-Email: economics@surrey.ac.uk Secondary-Fax: (01483) 259548 Secondary-Postal: Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH Secondary-Homepage: http://www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/ Handle: RePEc:edi:desuruk

  17. The RePEc vision • It is a collaborative effort of community wide-knowledge sharing by discpline champions and librarians. The relational features allow to share the burden of cataloguing and reduce the cost of keeping the collection up-to-date. • Once a critical mass of data and user services is reached outsiders face strong incentives to contribute. • RePEc promotes free exchange of data between academics. • It fights the appropriation of scientific material through the “Faustian Bargain” of academics and publishers.

  18. Digital Library for Basque Studies? • Building large corpus of free Basque texts • look at project Gutenberg • publish research papers online and keep a central index • Set up a relational database that links the primary texts in the corpus to research material that is written about them

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