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Tuesday, 16th May 2006

Promoting the Implementation of Open Access: Set of Papers from Upcoming IFLA Conference Now Available

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Archives--United States
Source: NARA
Speech Transcript: "NARA: A Look to the Future"
Remarks by Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 21, 2006.
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Library Organizations
Open Access
Source: IFLA
Papers from the 2006 World Library and Information Congress/IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Annual Conference which is scheduled to take place in Seoul, Korea, in August are beginning to appear on the conference web site. ResourceShelf will provide you with direct links to them on a regular basis. We'll begin with this set of papers that look at open access from a session titled: Promoting the Implementation of Open Access. All papers are PDF files.

+ Open Access Scholarly Databases - a bird's eye view of the landscape
by Peter Jacso. Btw, congrats to ResourceShelf friend (and Open Access News editor, Peter Suber) on the citation.
+ "dCollection": The National Network of University-Based Repository in Korea
by Hyekyong Hwang and Heeyoon Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Korea)
+ The Open Access movement in the Korean R&D environment
by Hyekyong Hwang and Heeyoon Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Korea)
+ Open Access and institutional repositories - a developing country perspective: a case study of India
by S.B. Ghosh And Anup Kumar Das (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India)
+ Open Access--Philosophy, Policy and Practice: a Comparative Study
by Xuemao Wang and Chang Su (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), USA) and Wei Liu (Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China)
+ Comparing three Chinese reprint systems
by Yi Liu and Yi Gao (Science and Technology Library of Guangdong, Guangzhou, China)
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Literature--Lists & Ranking
Source: New York Times Book Review
What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?
"Early this year, the Book Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors, and other literary sages, asking them to please identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years." [Read A. O. Scott's essay. See a list of the judges.]"

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