[LINK] ACS Digital Library

[Tom Worthington]

The ACS Digital Library is now on-line, using the Open Journal 
System, under a Creative Commons licence for Open Access to all 
papers. I would welcome comments, corrections and suggestions 
<http://dl.acs.org.au/>.

The addresses of each publication are:

* Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS): 
<http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis>
* Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT): 
<http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/jrpit>
* Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology 
(CRPIT): <http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/crpit>

So far there is not much there. The intention is to let the Editor, 
Craig McDonald, shake out the bugs in setting up AJIS. For the moment 
CRPIT and JRPIT entries just refer readers to the existing web site. 
Apart from AJIS, the current production process, rather than the one 
built into the OJS system, will be used.

When we have AJIS working we will cut other journals over to the OJS 
system and load back issues.

I am still waiting for DOIs to be issued for ACS. When they arrive we 
will see how the go for AJIS. In theory the system should allocate a 
DOI to each article (only refereed ones, not editorials or book 
reviews) and then make it available via OAI. But I suspect more work 
will be needed to get it to work.

For the philosophy behind the way I have configured the system see my 
ANU talk <http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/qpublishing.shtml>. 
See if you can spot where the advertising business model has been 
implemented on the new ACS site. My academic colleagues are nervous 
about advertising, so we are starting small, but I think the 
advertising revenue will cover all journal costs within a year.

One question I have is how to include metadata about the authors of 
articles, so that we can fulfill Evan Arthur's wishlist for DEST and 
have all the papers searchable by institution: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/dm/masticate.html#capture>.

ps: In November 1996 I attended a meeting in the UK with other 
leaders of the world's IT professional bodies, to sort out our 
publishing <http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/epubs/>. I thought 
this might take a few months to do. More than ten years later, I am 
still working it out.  ;-)



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