[Year 12 SofDev] ACS IFIP Digital Library

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> From:   Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au>
> Date:   Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:37:40 +1000 
>
> Subject:   IFIP Digital Library 
 

> The ACS is setting up a Digital Library for the International 
 Federation for Information Processing to publish ICT conference 
papers (with technical assistance from the ANU). Please try out the 
interfaces and let me know what you think: <http://dl.ifip.org/>

So far there are only a few conferences available. For old conferences
the archive has only an abstract for each paper and a link to the
commercial publisher. 

For some new conferences the full text of the paper is provided (with an
Open Access licence).

* LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)  has been enabled for the 
librarians who may wish to test they can archive it via the LOCKSS 
Publisher Manifest: http://dl.ifip.org/iojs/index.php/ifip/gateway/lockss

* OAI (Open Archives Initiative)  has been enabled for those with 
compatible archives to try, via the OAI-PMH Interface: 

  http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/index/oai


The IFIP Digital Library uses the Open Journal Systems (OJS) open 
source publishing system: <http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs>. 

This was used in preference to Open  Conference Systems (OCS) 
<http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs>, as at the time OJS was more mature software.  

Also OCS provides conference management facilities not needed by IFI
and OJS was better for handling multiple conference volumes.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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Cheers Tom/ACS
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institite of Teaching