IATUL Iberic Seminar: Porto, November 2004

The New Scholarly Communication & the UPC

Library

Roser Gómez & Anna Rovira

2001

http://www.tdx.cesca.es/index_tdx_an.html

2002

2003

Presentation of the Library Projects to Research Vice-Rector:

• The Theses and Dissertations Repository: TDX

• The Research Repository

Policy issues and technical solutions required

2003

Two days Workshop about Scholarly Communication :

III Workshop Rebiun sobre proyectos digitales

Budapest Open Access Initiative Spanish translationhttp://bibliotecnica.upc.es/rebiun/BOAI.pdf

2003

2004

Two Goals of our 2004 Strategic Plan refers to activities related to new Scholarly Communication:

• To promote Open Access to scientific communication, reasonable price subscriptions and copyright preservation.

• To populate IR, define policy issues and technical solutions for the UPC IR

2004

2004

• UPC libraries will host the permanent archiving of the electronic publication Structural Topology

• Archiving agreement with Université du Québec (Montréal)

2004

Directory of Open Access Journal is also included in Bibliotècnica

2004

Towards open access communication

Exhibition contents:•Electronic publication, Internet and Scholarly Communication•Authors •Universities and Research Results •University Libraries •Open access •Different strategic options

2004 and future

The UPC Research Repository:

• Conference papers

• Journal articles

• Resarch reports

• Open access UPC journals

Much for doing, But already some results!

Change is possible!