Connecting Africa: under construction. Titia van der Werf Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, NL. Dakar 1-2 September 2004

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1 Connecting Africa: under construction Titia van der Werf Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, NL Dakar 1-2 September

2 PROJECT DARC Distributed Africana Repositories Community Funding: SURF Foundation 1 st Tender 2003: nd Tender 2004: Partners: Afrika-Studiecentrum University of Amsterdam University of Groningen University of Leiden University of Wageningen 2

3 African Studies Community Portal Focus: Aim: Research in the Netherlands Strengthen African Studies in the Netherlands: more unity and visibility on the web Improve access to Dutch research material via the Internet Foster exchanges and co-operation in Dutch research and higher education 3

4 Approach: By developing jointly a service to the benefit of all participants Based on existing building blocs Database of Africanists in the Netherlands Netherlands African Studies Association Embedded in national infrastructures DARE (Digital Academic Repositories) NOD (Dutch Research Database) 4

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7 IMPLEMENTATION MODEL DARE Connecting Africa H DAREnet Search H Subject Gateway H IR IR IR IR IR IR IR ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG ORG 7

8 IMPLEMENTATION MODEL DARE Universitydepartment Dutch Research Database Input module IR University Library DARC Harvester DARC Harvester Connecting-Africa African Studies Portal 8

9 : DARC Pilot Connecting-Africa 350 researchers in the Netherlands 110 university units and research schools 75 digitised publications of the ASC 9

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20 Phase 1: DARC Pilot Findings Deposit scientific output: researchers are not convinced DARE: organisational structure is not yet in place at all universities Service Connecting-Africa: ownership? Technical solutions not yet running smoothly everywhere 20

21 Phase 1: DARC Pilot Questions: Wat type of materials? Publications: articles, books, reviews Presentations, discussion papers Pre-prints Primary source material: digital copies of archival material, photographs, interviews, films Newspaper articles, TV and radio recordings Sources for teaching material 21

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24 Phase 1: DARC Pilot Questions: Open Access vs restricted access Rights: who is the copyright-holder? Respect commercial interests of publishers Stimulate the scientific debate: disseminate interim research results through pre-prints, working papers, etc. Protect intellectual property: communicate scientific results as an end-result through official publication Accessibility of research output for colleague scientists (in Africa!) 24

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27 Phase 1: DARC Pilot Policy ASC Publication commission ASC Research Reports Less than 5 years old: downloadable after payment; 5 years and older: freely accessible online ASC Working Papers Freely accessible online with permission of the author. ASC Occasional Publications Depends on title; publication commission decides on per case basis. 27

28 Phase 2: DARC-2 Aim: Service to contain African Studies material from 25% of Dutch Africanists Partners: Approach: Afrika-Studiecentrum University of Wageningen University of Leiden University of Amsterdam University of Groningen Royal Academy of Sciences Proceed with implementation model Involve Africanists with the deposit of research material Re-use material for African Research Masters Programme. 28

29 Long-term preservation and access to scientific output The National Library of the Netherlands participates in DARE committed to LTP of Dutch publications works together with IBM for technological solutions all university repositories to deposit content to the national library 29

30 Future of Connecting Africa cover African Studies in the Netherlands harvest other OAI repositories containing African Studies material encourage colleagues in Europe to deposit material in OAI compliant repositories encourage African colleague research institutions to set up OAI compliant repositories GO GLOBAL 30

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33 GO GLOBAL through cooperation in a NICHE area: African Studies! 33

ENHANCED PUBLICATIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

ENHANCED PUBLICATIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC PETRA PEJŠOVÁ, HANA VYČÍTALOVÁ petra.pejsova@techlib.cz, hana.vycitalova@techlib.cz The National Library of Technology, Czech Republic Abstract The aim of this