BICTEL/e%20:%20a%20multi-institutional%20repository%20project%20in%20French-speaking%20Belgium

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BICTEL/e a multi-institutional repository
project in French-speaking Belgium

• Charles-Henri Nyns
• Université catholique de Louvain
• ltnyns_at_sceb.ucl.ac.begt

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• Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Communauté
  française de Belgique, a.s.b.l. (BICfB)
• Created in 2000 on behalf of the Conference of
  Rectors
• Funded by the Communauté française and the
  universities
• Mission  stimulate the collaboration
  especially as regarding the common acquisition of
  electronic resources and the development and
  adoption of common tools 

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BICfB common acquisitions

• Pros
• More resources (bibliographies, electronic
  journals)
• Better prices
• Enhanced access
• Better licenses

• Cons
• Consolidation of market power
• No way back ?
• Big players evict smaller ones (inelastic market)

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BICTEL/e a multi institutional repository
project
Subject based service
Belgian Harvester ?
Harvester CfB
University A
University B
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
OAI
OAI
e-prints
e-prints
ETD
ETD
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EPrints vs ETD ? EPrints and ETD !

• Pros
• NDLTD and OAI compatible
• Respect of specificities
• sort by Department
• identification of jury members
• confidentiality issues

• Cons
• 2 systems
• Lack of subject classification with ETD

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Theses a special kind of publications

• Specifities
• Mostly hardly distributed
• Original subjects
• Studies that go deep into a subject
• Time intensive
• More than peer-reviewed

• Why hardly distributed ?
• To specialised
• Not written to be read
• Risk for publishers
• Traditional publication needs rewriting and
  adaptation

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How to promote institutional repositories ?

• Start with interested people
• Show that it works, that it s used
• Double posting enhances visibility
• Better solution for archiving and security issues
  
• Lots of publishers accept archives
• Talk to the people

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• Contact
• ltdardenne_at_sceb.ucl.ac.begt
• ltnyns_at_sceb.ucl.ac.begt
• BICTEL/e project
• lthttp//edoc.bib.ucl.ac.begt (prototype)