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    Electronic journal registering and access in an academic library
    CROTHERS, STEPHEN ; Prabu, Margaret ; SULLIVAN, SHIRLEY (ALIA, 2001-11)
    The authors review the processes and problems inherent in providing online access to journal subscriptions where online access is supplied as part of the print subscription. Examples are used to demonstrate the difficulties and suggestions for improvement outlined.
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    OAI compliant institutional repositories and the role of library staff
    Horwood, L ; Sullivan, S ; Young, E ; Garner, J (Emerald, 2004-05-01)
    The role of librarians in the development and promotion of institutional repositories is discussed. It is presented as a continuation of their existing functions of acquiring, organising and making readily available the resources needed by academic staff and students. Library staff are collaborating with IT staff and academics to disseminate scholarly material and learning objects emanating from their institutions. The Open Archives Initiative and its Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, which provide the technical structure to support the repositories and enable their interoperability for searching purposes, are discussed. The benefits to institutions and their staffs are also reported. The skills needed by library staff are outlined, as well as the pitfalls and problems they may face in persuading academic staff of the virtues of institutional repositories.
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    The place of eprints in scholarly information delivery
    Garner, J ; Horwood, L ; Sullivan, S (Emerald, 2001-08-01)
    The continuing high costs of scholarly information provision have encouraged the proliferation of eprint servers. We have seen the establishment of the Chemistry Preprint Server, PhilSci Archive and ClinMed, to mention just three examples. Both the well‐established and the evolving eprint repositories offer hope that academic libraries can continue to provide access to required scholarly information at reasonable cost. The paper describes the advantages of eprint servers and possible obstacles to their acceptance.
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    Efforts to formalise international collaboration in scholarly information infrastructure
    Cramond, Stephen (Emerald, 1999)
    This article describes recent attempts to formalise relationships between the university sector in Australia, and equivalent bodies in the UK and the USA, in the development of information infrastructure through the creation of international liaison positions. The article provides a historical overview for collaborative activity of this kind, and gives an organisational perspective on the current developments. It describes the process by which potential issues for international collaboration were selected, discusses the opportunities for collaboration in each - library purchasing consortia, subject-based information gateways, mirroring of databases, authentication systems, and the scholarly communications crisis - and reports on progress with those issues. The strengths and weaknesses of this formal, nation-to-nation approach are also discussed.