[LINK] IFIP Digital Library

[Roger Clarke]

At 17:37 +1000 13/8/08, Tom Worthington wrote:
>The ACS is setting up a Digital Library for the International
>Federation for Information Processing ...

Congrats Tom(s)!!

1.  I had dire experiences in 1988 and 1991 with the large, slow and
     non-responsive for-profit publishers that IFIP had locked itself
     into

2.  It's excellent that they've (finally) disentangled themselves and
     moved towards open content

3.  For ACS to lead, and ANU to support, is a great advert to the
     world at large

[Declarations:  I've been a promoter of OJS, and am involved in both 
the ACS and ANU;  but not only did I contribute nothing to this 
initiative, I didn't even know it was happening]


At 17:37 +1000 13/8/08, Tom Worthington wrote:
>The ACS is setting up a Digital Library for the International
>Federation for Information Processing to publish ICT conference
>papers (with technical assistance from the ANU). Please try out the
>interfaces and let me know what you think: <http://dl.ifip.org/>
>
>So far there are only a few conferences available. For old
>conferences, the archive has only an abstract for each paper and a
>link to the commercial publisher. For some new conferences the full
>text of the paper is provided (with an Open Access licence).
>
>* LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)  has been enabled for the
>librarians who may wish to test they can archive it via the LOCKSS
>Publisher Manifest: http://dl.ifip.org/iojs/index.php/ifip/gateway/lockss
>
>* OAI (Open Archives Initiative)  has been enabled for those with
>compatible archives to try, via the OAI-PMH Interface:
>http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/index/oai
>
>The IFIP Digital Library uses the Open Journal Systems (OJS) open
>source publishing system:
><http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs>. This was used in preference to Open
>Conference Systems (OCS) <http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs>, as at the time
>OJS was more mature software.  Also OCS provides conference
>management facilities not needed by IFIP and OJS was better for
>handling multiple conference volumes.
>
>
>
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