19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Poster, Open Communication
Design and implementation of a platform for electronic journals OAI-PMH compliant. An approach to Spanish e-journals
Reme Melero (rmelero@iata.csic.es), Editor of Food Science
and Technology International. IATA, CSIC, Spain
Jose Ramón Pérez-Agüera
(jose.aguera@ccinf.ucm.es), Dpt. Biblioteconomia
y Documentación, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain
Removing access barriers to scientific literature accelerates research, enriches
education and shares knowledge among different communities. This kind of free
and unrestricted online availability, called ‘open access’ is limited to small
portions of the journal literature. In addition, the Open Archive Initiative
(OAI) develops and promotes a low-barrier interoperability framework and associated
standards to enhance access to web material with the aim to facilitate dissemination
of content. Moreover, the possibility of accessing multiple repositories enables
the construction of new kinds of services that can better serve the needs of
the users. Based on these statements there has been created a platform of Spanish
scientific journals published electronically which includes a directory of free
or open access Spanish journals and the tools for searching and browsing within
them. The main aims of this project are the dissemination of knowledge, the
increase of the quality and visibility of the publications and favouring the
access to the Spanish scientific production. The journals included in the directory
are selected according to quality criteria based on the items defined for Latindex
Catalog (www.latindex.org).
To date, there about 40 scientific journals from different subjects which have
agreed to participate in the project. The platform of Spanish e-journals supports
a Service Provider based on the open source software ARC, developed by de