Supporting organizations

Responsible Partners

RCLIS, Research in Computing, Library and Information Science is a project to build a database of current and past documents in computing, librarianship, information science and technology, and related application activities. It's aim is to extend and update DoIS (Documents in Information Science). RCLIS is inspired by the open source software movement and it is based on volunteer power. It will serve as a test bed for digital library research. It will initially be released using the public metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), using the Academic Metadata Format (AMF). Other delivery mechanisms and metadata formats may be added as time permits. RCLIS offers support to the movement for free online scholarship (FOS). We will primarily seek to document resources that are freely available online.

DoIS, Documents in Information Science is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in the area of Library and Information Scienc. DoIS is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in Information Science. DoIS is a volunteer effort to create a free bibliographic resource of scientific texts specializing in Information Science. DoIS uses RCLIS data. Italian DoIS-WG working group is collaborating with DoIS and RCLIS to create an international open access archive: E-LIS EPrints in Library and Information Science.

CILEA, Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione Automatica, Italy, is a non-profit organization pooling nine Italian Universities. Its service is related to the field of library automation, which is provided in co-operation with the most significant projects at both national and European level. For some years CILEA has developed a project called CILEA Digital Library to make available to the academic community electronic journals and on-line databases from the most important scientific publishers in the world. Data are locally mirrored on powerful, multiprocessors servers with huge disk areas, now storing more than 4 TeraBytes. During 2003 CILEA started to operate the AEPIC project and is now able to provide innovative solutions for electronic publishing and digital libraries at very competitive costs and timetable, employing open-source and OAI-PMH compliant software. AEPIC coordinates and participates to several national and international projects. One of AEPIC's achievements is PLEIADI, a portal for Italian Open Archives, built in collaboration with CASPUR. AEPIC also organizes courses and events related to OA technologies and promotion, such as the Messina Declaration, an event that witnessed the support of more than 30 Italian universities to Open Access.

Further supporting organizations

This project has been partially funded in 2002 by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Government of Spain.

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). The Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) is a dynamic, innovative public institution, dedicated to research and teaching that keeps strong bonds with the social environment in which its activities are performed and simultaneously maintains an important presence abroad.

AIDA - Associazione Italiana per la Documentazione Avanzata [Italian Association for Advanced Documentation] - was founded in Rome in 1983 as a non-profit body to contribute to the definition, knowledge, and development of documentation and information science as a cultural area, and to strengthen the profession of Italian "documentalist" (information specialist) as a highly specialised activity. AIDA is member of ECIA (European Council of Information Associations) and accepts its ethical code of I&D professionals, Ethical Principles for Information and Documentation Professionals, and the ECIA Statement on Intellectual Property and Copyright. As well as other European associations, AIDA is an associated partner of  the DECIDoc/CERTIDoc projects, with the aim to develop a European certification of information professionals' competencies. AIDA regurarly holds the "Sessione italiana"[Italian Session] at the London  IOLIM dating from its formation, by bi-lateral contacts with similar Italian and European associations. AIDA publishes the international quarterlyon information sciences "AIDAinformazioni",both in print and electronically, and the free electronic newsletter"AIDAlampi" as well as occasional publications including manuals, monographs, and proceedings of national conferences,seminars, and workshops.

EXIT, Directory of Experts in Information Handling is a tool open to all Spanish-speaking information professionals working in the area of librarianship, documentation, and archives, that facilitates exchanges with other experts working in the same fields. EXIT is a free not-for-profit service, funded by the directory's own managers. Some of the advanced characteristics of this directory:

•  mechanisms that protect against the capture of e-mail addresses by robots
•  standardization of organizational names
•  insertion (optional) of pdf files with members' CVs (of special interest to persons without personal web pages)
•  automatic linking to works deposited by the experts in the E-LIS repository
•  possibility of editing the search equations of Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo and MSN in order to optimize them for each person
•  obtaining a measurement of popularity in each URL on the experts' records, including a TouchGraphics-Google map
•  automatic real-time checking of all addresses included in the records
•  immediate conversion of the records into XML, RDF and vCard formats

Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom). Formed in Summer 1999, the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde brings together long-standing research interests in the digital information area previously spread across two University departments. Managed jointly by the University's Directorate of Information Strategy and Department of Computer and Information Sciences, CDLR seeks to combine theory with practice in innovative ways with the aim of being a centre of excellence on digital libraries issues ranging from information policy and information retrieval to document storage technologies and standards.

BUBL, University of Strathclyde, information Service that offers information retrieval of Internet resources for the United Kingdom higher education community, and a specialist service to librarians and information professionals.

CNIC, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (Cuba). The National Center for Scientific Research is an institution of the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, dedicated to the scientific research with high development of natural, biomedical, and technological sciences. The Department of Scientific Information has vast experience in the creation of services based on bibliometric studies, and other information services with high added-value for academics and researchers.

Biblios, Information Science Electronic Magazine, is a professional publication about Information Science. It is published quarterly in electronic format, offering its contents in plaintext, free of charge by Internet. Our objective is to offer information that allows information specialists to be properly updated on subjects of interest. The contents of Biblios includes professional studies and research on archives, communication and information technologies, documentation, knowledge management, librarianship, and other subjects related to IS. This publication is possible thanks to support of many specialists from Latin America and Spain that quarterly send their articles.

ADHI, Asociación Hispana de Documentalistas en Internet is a non-profit organization, recognized by "Ministerio del Interior" of Spanish government, with a presence in several Spanish speaking countries. It's goal is to emphasize the valuable work of Documentalists and other multidisciplinary related professionals (Librarians, Information scientists) who use the Internet as a work tool through a PC or any multimedia technology (Web mobile, WAP, GPRS, UMTS,Digital TV, etc.)

AVEI (Spain). Associació Valenciana d'Especialistes en Informació

IBICT (Brazil). The Brazilian Institute on Science and Technology - IBICT, one of the research units of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, celebrating 50 years of existence, has embraced the important mission of being the national center for Research, Scientific Interchange, Education, Training, and improvement of Scientific staff, with the objective of contributing to the advancement of Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation at the national level.

AAB (Spain). The Andalusian Librarians Association is a professional organization founded in 1981 as an indepent professional association. Our objetive is to represent and defend andalusian librarians interests. Main activities: Publications as AAB Bulletin (Quarterly journal), articles and news related to librarian job or conference papers, librarian directory, courses for librarians, biannual conference and workshops. AAB is member of FESABID and IFLA.

SEDIC (Spain). The Spanish Society of Documentation and Scientific Information.

Polish Librarian Association (Poland) was created in 1917 to build up the prestige and professional profile of the librarians. Indeed, thanks to organization and coordinated work the community raised its position. The Union of Librarians, our predecessor, by acceding in 1927 to the International Federation of Library Associations IFLA, founded at that time in Edinburgh, won the status of IFLA founding members. Numerous representatives of Polish librarians participated in the work of the specialized IFLA agencies. Now PLA has about 8300 members, taken part all kinds of libraries in Poland. It is not an exclusive organization. We have branches in every regional voivodeship. They are generally based in major libraries, mainly of the public type, although in recent years PLA branches have been set up in a number of academic libraries. In the PLA organizational structure the expert teams appointed to tackle the librarians current and future needs are of great significance. The work of these teams' serves the purpose of solving specific problems related to the library theory and practice. The results of their work are expert appraisals, which help in solving important issues of different branches of librarianship, developing and programming knowledge, are conductive to occupational practice. One of the most important is Commission on Electronic Publications, which creates EBIB - electronic service and journal and realized some international projects concerning Internet.

Turkish Librarians’ Association (TLA) was formed in November 19th, 1949 to encourage the professional collaboration among Turkish librarians, to raise awareness throughout the country of librarianship as a profession. The center of the Association is located in Ankara. Its pioneer was Adnan Ötüken and 16 of the 35 founders were the librarians from the National Library. While the association was active in Ankara during the first years, with a modification in the main regulation, it expanded its activities to the cities and districts by opening several branches all over the country. TLA aims to contribute sociated development by developing the services of libraries, archives, and information and documentation centers. For this purpose, it

•  makes scientific studies and publishes materials for the areas mentioned above,
•  strives to protect members benefits, as a civil society organization,
•  strains to provide solidarity and harmony among members,
•  determines the rules of professional ethics and assures obeying such rules,
•  provides opportunities for its members  to develop and/or improve relationship between national and international institutions,
•  supports its individual and/or institutional members in solving their problems.

TLA also publishes Journal of Turkish Librarianship, which is quarterly, peer reviewed journal since 1952. Since it started having article abstract in English in 1993, E-LIS will cover its issues after this date.

Coordinamento Nazionale Biblioteche Architettura (CNBA) aims to enhance cooperation between libraries, archives and documentation centers inarchitecture in Italy, both public and private ones, mainly by: promoting or supporting projectsrelated to increase information tools in architecture; organizing seminars in these subjects;supporting international relationships with similar foreign associations. CNBA moreover publishesa series of conference proceedings, named Quaderni del CNBA.

Üniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphanecileri Derneği-ÜNAK (University and Research Librarians Association-UNAK) was formed in 1991 to work for modern perception and role of librarianship in university and research libraries, documentation and information centers, and private libraries. ÜNAK aims to analyse the issues of these information centers related to rapidly changing technology; to make comparisons between Turkey and the other countries on these issues and their solutions; to determine problems of library staff and find solutions; to work actively in implementing new technologies. ÜNAK is the publisher of Bilgi Dünyası (Information World), a peer reviewed OA journal since 2000, published twice a year. Bilgi Dünyası’s articles are also covered in E-LIS.