About E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Science

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

Thomas Krichel in a recent response to Stevan Harnad, brought up 
the disciplinary repositories arXiv, RePEc, and E-LIS.  Thomas 
Krichel is the creator of RePEc and involved in E-LIS.

For the benefit of list subscribers who may not be familiar with 
E- LIS, following is a brief explanation:

E-LIS
http://eprints.rclis.org/

E-LIS is the world's largest open access archive for library and 
information studies.  E-LIS presently includes over 7,500 
fulltext documents, and is among the world's rapidly-growing open 
access initiatives.

E-LIS is a global community, with volunteer editors from over 40 
countries and support for 22 languages.  The largest numbers of 
documents are in english or spanish; each document includes an 
english abstract.  More than half the documents in E-LIS are 
peer- reviewed, and others, such as theses, have gone through 
alternative but stringent quality control processes.

Please visit E-LIS for your LIS searching needs

Authors, please consider depositing your articles in E-LIS. 
Advantages of self-archiving in this way, besides the obvious OA 
impact advantage, include:

A permanent URL for your article
Example - A non-US non-UK Perspective on OA
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006721/

A URL for your works as author
Example - Heather Morrison's E-LIS
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Morrison,_Heather.html

Statistics for article views and downloads for your article.

For more information about E-LIS, please see my article, E-LIS: 
the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies.  The 
Charleston Advisor Volume 9, Number 1, July 2007 , pp. 56-61(6) 
http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/ 
chadv/2007/00000009/00000001/art00019

Disclosure:  I am a member of the E-LIS Governance Team.

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, 
and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic 
Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com