The United Kingdom Serials Group held a one-day workshop on 21st November 1996. The audience of 170 people came from a wide range of mainly UK-based backgrounds, namely electronic journal (e-journal) research, publishers, e-journal service providers, academics, and public library and university librarians.
The morning session consisted of views of e-journals from university, industrial and end-user perspectives. The first of these concentrated on how the Pilkington Library at Loughborough University made access available to freely available Internet-based journals, as well as commercially published journals. The end- user perspective explained some of the advantages: e.g., navigation, information immediacy, global distribution, searching, and disadvantages: e.g., reliance on networks, credibility of electronically based information over print-based journals.
The afternoon session consisted of a demonstration of two products offering access to a range of e-journals, namely, Blackwells Electronic Journal Navigator and the BIDS Journal Online service. This was followed by a wrap-up open forum, where people could discuss those e-journal issues of concern.
Though the day did not result in any solutions, many of the problems with e-journal production, access, charging mechanisms and formats were aired. Key issues that were repeated through the day were:
As part of its Digitial Library Initiative, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) has decided to organize a series of conferences on research and advanced technology for digital libraries. These conferences are partially funded by the Training, Mobility and Resources (TMR) programme of the European Union. The aim is to give researchers from universities, research centres, industry and government the opportunity to meet once a year to discuss evolving research issues and applications. The intention is to provide a European forum in which to identify key problems, and to propose and encourage specific, high-priority research themes.
The first Conference will be held in Pisa in early September 1997. For up-to-date information, see: http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/.
34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data
Processing: Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources March 2-4, 1997 |
http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc/index.html. |
ASIS 1997 Annual Meeting: Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers, and Maintainers | http://www.asis.org/annual-97/ASIS97.htm |
Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project | http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/ |
Brain Atlas Datasets (Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School) |
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Buildings, books, and bytes | http://www.benton.org/Kellogg/ |
Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual
Property Harvard University |
http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/econ.html. |
First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries | http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL |
National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) | http://www.nhse.org/ |
Second Annual Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Symposium Monterey, California February 24-26, 1997 |
http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml97. |
Solaris | http://www.info.unicaen.fr/bnum/jelec/Solaris/" |
SouthEast Asia images and Texts project (SEAiT) | http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/" |
World Intellectual Property Organization | |
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