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The course "The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine" was designed for library managers, librarians, reference librarians, subject specialists, publishers and other information professionals in the fields of science, technology, and medicine (STM). Advanced libraries were mainly addressed, without excluding the less technically advanced libraries.
Participants completed course with a knowledge of:
- the current changes in the information chain, possible roles and opportunities for science, technology and medical (STM) libraries;
- the strategies of other (commercial and scholarly) players on the market;
- the organisational and technical aspects of electronic self-publishing;
- different approaches to licensing and the forming of consortia;
- the experiences with integrating digital content in leading institutions.
The following subjects were dealt with during the course:
- changes in the information chain;
- new roles of publishers on the Internet;
- the library as the information gateway, the library as a publisher;
- licensing options;
- library consortia: success, realism and myth;
- electronic preprints: document servers and institutional repositories;
- reference linking;
- library case studies.
All lectures, workshops, and discussions were in English. Sharing of experiences among participants was essential and participants were expected to engage in high levels of interaction. The courses drew heavily on European and North American best practice.
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