HEP Libraries Webzine
Issue 9 / March 2004

Editorial Issue 9

Welcome to Issue 9 of HEP Libraries Webzine, after a long cold winter here. This time we have some contributions from the Antipodes (might help to warm us up).

Cathrine Harboe-Ree and Andrew Treloar of Monash University propose to connect the dots down under with an integrated approach to institutional digital content management for research, teaching, and learning.

Marian Hanley of the National Library of Australia talks about the practical aspects of the PADI Safekeeping project.

MacKenzie Smith of MIT Libraries focuses on the implementation of DSpace at MIT for the archiving of e-prints and other artefacts of scholarly communication, and making these available to the public. She shows how the use of DSpace at MIT Libraries supports the goals of SPARC and the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Back in Europe, Gerhard Beier and Theresa Valden of the Max Planck Society introduce us to their E-Doc Server Project. MPS is also committed to open access as documented in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Michael Jost and Hans J. Becker, also in Germany, describe the wide range of services provided by the EULER project in the discipline of Mathematics. The EULER Consortium provides a real virtual library for mathematics with up-to-date technological solutions, well accepted by the users.

Since our last Issue, there has been much activity also around Geneva with the World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/ and the Role of Science in the Information Society Conference at CERN http://rsis.web.cern.ch/rsis/. Just last month CERN also hosted the third OAI Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the benefits of OAI http://oai3.web.cern.ch/oai3/.

CERN itself has a new electronic publication policy including the submission of e-prints to the relevant e-archives and also the use of low-cost, easily accessible electronic journals. In selection boards for positions at CERN, the same a priori relevance that is attributed to refereed articles in traditional journals should be given to refereed articles in electronic journals. CERN should encourage the implementation of similar policies in the scientific community at large. http://library.cern.ch/cern_publications/cern_publication_policy.html

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