Dear Collegues,
I would like to inform you that the preliminary english version of the
DINI certificate for document and publication services is available via
the DINI Webserver:
http://www.dini.de/documents/DINI_certificate_eng_2006-10-12_draft.pdf
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Installing and institutionalising document and publication repositories
at universities creates the opportunity to archive scholarly
publications that were produced at the respective universities and to
offer them to a worldwide audience. This new service offered by
libraries and computing centres as infrastructure facilities helps
disseminate the idea of electronic publishing as a new tool for academic
work. DINI, the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (German
Initiative for Network Information), supports this to reach a higher
level of scientific and scholarly communication both nationally and
internationally.
To reach this goal it is necessary to create a network of Document and
Publication Services. The ‘DINI-Certificate Document and Publication
Services’ includes current international developments, describes how
Document and Publication Services support the open-access publication of
scholarly documents, and shows how as Institutional Repositories they
can position themselves in their respective institutions, especially
with regard to supporting scholars and scientists to make pre and post
prints of their documents available that have already been published by
publishing houses – free of time or space constraints.
The DINI-Certificate 2007 aims for the following:
• Provide a detailed description of the requirements of certified
Document and Publication Services
• Position Document and Publication Services as an Institutional Repository
• Highlight development directions in the areas of developing services
and of information exchange
• Offer a visible reference to both users and providers to certify the
adherence to defined standards and recommendations by the respective
Document and Publication Services
By issuing this certificate, DINI offers a quality control for Document
and Publication Services.
A set of mandatory minimum requirements of a service and its provider
must be attained, prior to the award of the DINI Certificate. Fulfilling
these requirements is essential in order to allow modern scholarly
communication. At the same time, DINI makes recommendations with regard
to foreseeable developments that might become future requirements.
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Please distribute this information in your communities!
Best Whishes for Christmas and New Year!
Susanne Dobratz.
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Susanne Dobratz
Head Electronic Publishing Group
University Library & Computer and Media Services
Humboldt-University Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin, Germany
Visiting address: http://www.hu-berlin.de/~dobratz/
Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum email: [log in to unmask]
Rudower Chaussee 26 phone: +49+30+2093-7070
12489 Berlin fax: +49+30+2093-2959
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