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13 The Digital Library: An Integrated System for Scholarly Communication
13 The Digital Library: An Integrated System for Scholarly Communication
Pages 190-198
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Scientists are producing more and more information, e.g., the American Chemical Society is publishing 10 percent more pages each year, and many other publishers report annual increases of 10 to 20 percent. If this increase in the rate at which information is published continues, and that seems likely, university libraries will be unable to 190
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THE CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY As part of our planning for libraries and scholarly information at the University of California, we developed a shared vision of the library appropriate for the university: A World-class Research Library for the 21st Century Consisting of Complementary Paper and Digital Libraries Comprising a University-wide Knowledge Network With Services Delivered at the Point of Need. The digital component of this library has been named the California Digital Library (CDL)
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One of the first digital journal licenses we signed at UC was with the American Chemical Society. It is important to note that ACS has been willing to develop a model that is more beneficial to users than the models developed by many other publishers, particularly commercial ones.
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What we have seen in the physics community at Los Alamos, for example, is the establishment of a physics preprint server where not only the physics community, but also the mathematics community as well as others place articles prior to publication. Adding peer review to that preprint process would ensure technical merit, and it would not be necessary to go through the entire publication process.
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One is S PARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, originally developed by the Association of Research Libraries. It currently consists of more than 100 research libraries from around the country that have joined together for the following purposes: · To create a more competitive marketplace, · To reduce journal prices, · To ensure fair use of electronic materials, and · To apply new technologies to information creation and storage.
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I believe, and Lorrin might correct me, that even our license with the American Chemical Society only guarantees access for 5 years, and I am assuming that some of that literature is still important to you after it is 5 years old. Stanley Sandier, University of Delaware: I guess I am overwhelmed with the amount of information that is available and being generated, particularly the number of journal pages and such.
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Tom Edgar: I guess the gradient is what I am interested in; is it positive or negative in terms of the number of people it is going to take to provide the California Digital Library services compared to the number you have today? Richard Lucier: I think that what we have projected is that it is going to take probably an equal number of resources, but ones more focused on providing quality access to information than they currently are.
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We are going through a period now, I think, of trying to understand how our faculty and the research community will use the electronic versions, what they prefer about them. What we are seeing with things like Highwire Press, for example, is that the print version and the electronic version are getting further and further apart, and the electronic technology is being exploited to provide products that are much more beneficial to you than the paper might have been.
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Gintaris Reklaitis, Purdue University: One of the most important and underappreciated resources in the entire publications review process is the reviewers. Clearly as the publications process continues to expand, the demands on the reviewers will also.
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