PsyDok : electronic full-text archive for psychological documents

Herb, Ulrich (2006) PsyDok : electronic full-text archive for psychological documents. In Proceedings GL7 : Seventh International Conference on Grey Literature, Nancy (France).

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Abstract

The Saarland University and State Library (Saarlaendische Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek SULB) runs the Special Subject Collection Psychology which is part of an information system for the supra-regional literature supply in Germany. With the increasing opportunities for electronic information the following question emerged for the Special Subject Collection: how can a contribution to the availability and preservation of electronic documents particularly with regards to grey literature be made? Giving an answer SULB established the repository PsyDok in autumn 2002. PsyDok is one of the few subject-specific digital repositories in Germany. It is a registered data provider of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and certified by the German Initiative for Networkinformation (DINI), which developed a variety of standards digital repositories have to comply with to achieve this mark of quality. PsyDok offers many interfaces to disciplinary and multidisciplinary retrieval and information systems. The allocation of Uniform Resource Names (URN) guarantees persistent availability and citeability of the documents. Several services and mechanisms guarantee not only a maximum of visibility and a rapid and global scientific exchange and flow of information stored on PsyDok but also its long term availability and its scientific utilization. PsyDok fits the principles of "Open Access": Many different document types may be published, but PsyDok focuses particularly on diploma theses, dissertations, professorial dissertations and grey literature. Regarding aspects of visibility, information exchange and scientific utilization producers of scientific literature benefit from PsyDok.

Keywords:	Open Access, Grey Literature, Disciplinary Repository, Disciplinary Repositories, PsyDok, Digital Library, Special Subject Collection
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology. > LC. Internet, including WWW.
ID Code:	5420
Deposited By:	Herb, Ulrich
Deposited On:	02 February 2006
Alternative Locations:	http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2006/574/
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