Transcript OPEN ACCESS IN CONFLICT WITH COPYRIGHT AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS

OPEN ACCESS IN CONFLICT WITH
COPYRIGHT AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS
By Dr. Ta Ba Hung
Director, NACESTI, Vietnam
2nd International IFLA Presidential Meeting
Berlin, 21-22 Feb 2008
Main Content
• NACESTI and Open Access in Vietnam
• Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing
S&T Information for Socio-economic
Development in Rural and Mountainous
Areas
• VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online
NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam
+ NACESTI – National Centre for Scientific
and Technological Information
+ Largest public library & Information centre
for Science and Technology in VN
+ Target users: Policy makers, researchers,
educators, students, entrepreneurs,
population in rural areas
+ NACESTI belongs to MOST
NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam
+ Digital Content development:
Generation & Development of national databases:
1. Vietnam S&T Literature : Journal articles,
proceedings
2. Completed R&D reports
3. Vietnam Market of Technologies
4. Digital Library on S&T for rural development
5. OPAC, Union Catalog for serials
Most of these database are available on public
Internet
NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam
+ Development of VISTA (Vietnam Information for S&T
Advance) –a leading portal on S&T Information on S&T :
http://www.vista.gov.vn
+ Development of VINAREN (Vietnam Research &
Education Network) – an advanced information network
for research and education community in the country
http://www.vinaren.gov.vn – TEIN2 and APAN member
+ Publishing 10+ bulletins and journals (print and eversion)
+ Development Vietnam Library Consortium on e-resources
(40 members, national license for 15,000 e-journals
(EBSCO databases) and license for 175 e-journals of
Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing S&T
Information for Socio-economic Development in
Rural and Mountainous Areas
• It aims to make meaningful contribution to eradication of poverty
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and improving quality of human life in rural and mountainous areas
by timely providing and intensively using relevant , reliable digital
information and knowledge
Digital content : Digital Library on S&T for rural development (on
CD-ROMs or on portable hardisc (300-500 GB) that contains:
50,000+ full text documents (PDF)
400 digitized technical movies tittles
Database on experts and consultancy organizations
ICT facility: PC, VCD/DVD player, TV set, Dial-up/ADSL Internet
connection
Commune Web page (hosted on http://www.stp.gov.vn )
This model has been implemented in more than 200 communes in
34/64 provinces in the country.
VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online
• Project VJOL was initiated in June 2006 and officially
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launched in September 2007 with support of INASP
It aims to promote the awareness & use of Vietnampublished journals in all disciplines by providing access
to tables of contents, abstracts and full text on the public
Internet.
VJOL uses the Open Journal System created by the
Public Knowledge Project (University of British Columbia
in Canada). This is an open source and allows the
journal content listed on VJOL to be indexed through
Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to
research. It harvests the metadata for each journal
article, making this work readily available to global
audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among
the worldwide research community
VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online
• VJOL provides participating journals the opportunity to
take control of the area within the VJOL: to load, edit
and to update their own journal information.
• VJOL provides information on each participating journal:
aims and scope, contact details and general information,
Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all
articles published within these journals. Many full text
articles are also available.
• All the material on VJOL is free to view, search and
browse, however copyright of all content is retained by
the journals or authors – each journal will need to give
permission for any use or re-use of the content that fails
outside Fair Use.
VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online
• As of the January 2008, VJOL has:
- 15 journals (6 joined in 2006 & 9 joined in 2007)
- 47 Tables of Contents listing 499 articles, 330 of the articles are
available in full text (PDF)
- There have been 2,935 people with 3,246 visits to VJOL website
(from Nov 2007 to Jan 2008) (Google Analytics); the visitors to
VJOL came from 82 countries/territories, 29,890 full text articles for
VJOL journals have been downloaded from Aug 2006 to Dec 2007.
- This is a great success of VJOL project at the very starting step!
- At present, VJOL website is hosted in Canada (http://www.vjol.info )
VJOL will be hosted and maintained in Vietnam by NACESTI during
2008.
Conclusion
- Vietnam has been lately involved in realization of
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
Vietnam has to encourage developing digital
content, especially Vietnamese content for free
access on public Internet
NACESTI has actively taken part in facilitating
Open access to national and international
science knowledge and cultural heritage.
Thank you !