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Open Round Table on
DEVELOPING COUNTRY ACCESS TO ON-LINE SCIENTIFIC
PUBLISHING: Sustainable Alternatives
4-5 October 2002, Trieste, Italy
The Programme for the Enhancement of
Research Information (PERI):
an integrated response to expressed needs
Carol Priestley
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
This presentation covers:
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INASP
 Background
 Overview of activities
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PERI
 Background/overview
 A 4-component programme
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Delivering Information
Disseminating Local Research
Enhancing ICT Skills
Strengthening Local Publishing
Features and Benefits
 General
INASP: background
 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications (INASP) is a programme of CDSI, ICSU
 INASP established in 1992
 a co-operative network of over 3000 partners
Aim: to improve world-wide access to information
and knowledge through a commitment to capacity
building in developing and transitional countries
INASP: overview of activities
Core Activities
 advisory and liaison services
 links & resources
 Access to Information
 INASP-Health Links
 publications
 INASP Newsletter
 handbooks
 manuals
INASP: overview of activities (cont’d)
Programme Activities
 INASP-Health
 INASP-Rural Development
 Library Support Initiatives
 support to professional associations
 access to information & knowledge for the public
 Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
 Delivering information
 Disseminating national and regional research
 Enhancing ICT Skills
 Strengthening local publishing
PERI: overview
Programme for the Enhancement of
Research Information
Aim:
to support capacity building in the research sector in
developing and transitional countries through
strengthening the production and dissemination of,
and access to, information & knowledge utilising new
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Key Words: Affordability, Sustainability, Capacity Building
PERI: A four component programme
i.
Delivering Information
facilitates the acquisition of international information and
knowledge
ii.
Disseminating National & Regional Research
strengthens and develops access to national and regional
journals as a medium for the dissemination of local
information and knowledge
iii.
Enhancing ICT Skills
provides awareness or training in the use and/or
evaluation of ICTs
iv.
Strengthening Local Publishing
enhances skills in the preparation, production and
management of journals
PERI Component 1:
Delivering Information
 acquisition of resources (2002-2006)
 current awareness resources
 on-line full-text journals
 document delivery
 negotiation with publishers:
 initially project by project, leading to institutional level,
leading to country-wide access licences
 90% -100% discount
 3-year licensing period from publishers
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beginning to move towards country collaborative purchase or
‘consortia’ building
Current Awareness Resources
Examples include:
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African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
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British Library - Inside Web - indexes the ToCs of 20,000+
research journals
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CAB International - CAB Abstracts, CAB HEALTH
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EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier,
Health Source Plus, ERIC, Medline
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SciELO journals (Latin American bio-medical journals)
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SilverPlatter abstracting & indexing databases:
 FRANCIS
 Pascal Biomed
 Pascal SciTech
 MEDLINE+
Full Text Journal Resources
Examples include:
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Academic Press - 300+ journals
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Blackwell Publishers - 600+ journals in Science, Technology,
Medicine, Social Sciences & Humanities
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The Cochrane Library – medicine and health databases and
reviews
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EBSCO Publishing 5,500+ journals in science, technology,
medicine, agriculture, social sciences and humanities + CD
ROMs; content from 200+ leading publishers
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The Royal Society
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Oxford University Press
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Gale
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other information providers joining through 2002/03 include
IoPP, Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, etc etc
Document Delivery Resources
Examples include:
 British Library Document Supply Centre – provides access
to articles from over 20,000 research journals and
100,000 conference proceedings
 SciELO – online journals from Latin America
 African Journals Online (AJOL)
In all cases, PERI has negotiated free or highly
discounted fees for hard copy articles
PERI Component 2:
Disseminating National & Regional Research
Aims and Objectives
 to enable the results of research undertaken and published to
become more widely known and accessible
 to raise awareness of scholarly publications both nationally
and internationally
 to strengthen the scholarly publishing sector by providing
income both through encouraging print and/or electronic
subscriptions and, in some regions, through the purchase of
single articles
 to assess the impact of using the Internet to promote
awareness and use of journals
Disseminating National & Regional Research (contd)
Examples: African Journals Online (AJOL); SciELO,
LATINDEX
AJOL
• provides a web presence for online Tables of Content and
Abstracts
• links to full text where electronic full text is available
• cross-title searching
• now includes over 100 journals in:
 agricultural sciences
 arts, culture and literature
 health and medicine
 science and technology
 social sciences
http://www.inasp.info/ajol/index.html
INASP has recently been invited to undertake feasibility surveys
for similar projects in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh; Armenia, Kazakhstan
& Ukraine
PERI Component 3:
Enhancing ICT Skills
Aim of this component:
To enhance awareness and training for researchers and
information staff
 ‘travelling’ training materials and ‘cascading’ methodology
 local facilitation and in-country delivery
 Africa, South East Asia, Central and South America, NIS
(former Soviet Union)
 library & research sectors focus on information access and
management related issues
Internet Training:
Workshop series
1. ‘Using the Internet’
2. ‘Electronic Journals and Electronic Resources
Library Management’
3. 'Web Page Design and Authoring, leading to
Network & Library Web Pages’
4. ‘ICT Troubleshooting for Librarians’
PERI Component 4:
Strengthening Local Publishing
Aim of this component:
To assist publishers to improve their publishing skills
 Publishing management workshops
 Online Journal Publishing Projects
 Study visits & ‘mentorships’ through partnership
e.g. African Crop Science Journal & Journal of Animal Sciences with CABI
Journal of Applied Science and Technology – Inst. of Civil Engineers
Journal of Science and Technology (Zambia) – IMechE
Journal of Social Development in Africa - RIAI
National Science & Technology Development Agency, Thailand - Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences
 Handbooks, manuals and resource packs
Challenges
Projects like PERI are beginning to make a real impact and
address many of the issues, but access is only the first step:
 Infrastructural development and enhancement – urgent need
for hardware, cabling and network infrastructure
 Training – real need for extensive, hands-on, high quality and
effective training
 Development of Programme:
- potential to develop country portals for ease of access to
multiple resources
- adoption of common statistical reporting (project COUNTER)
- continued in-country collaboration to ensure local
empowerment
- more resources at affordable prices
 ‘Consortia’ formation, where practical, for future sustainability
Thank you,
questions please…
Carol Priestley, Director, INASP
27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU
http://www.inasp.info Email [email protected]
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)