Fortunately, IRANDOC will attend in the 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly with a poster presented by two of the research institute members, Nadia Haji-Azizi, manager of Scientific Communications Office and Sirous Alidousti, Assistant Professor. Here is the poster abstract:
JIST Open Access E-Prints Archive:
"Live" knowledge instead of obsolete documents by "E-prints"
Publication in refereed journals is essential for scholarly exchanges and also the faculty tenure and promotion process. Thanks to the advent of Internet and networked technologies, "E-prints" in the forms of pre-prints (pre-refereed papers) and post-prints (post refereed papers), are included in many journal websites. The status quo in Iran is that the average waiting time for publishing in journals is more than nine months, and therefore, by the time it is read, it is almost certainly obsolete in terms of frontier research. Nevertheless, none of the periodicals in Iran has had electronic version in full text of the accepted papers or those ready for publication by 2009.
Journal of Information Sciences and Technology (JIST), published by Iranian Research Institute for Information Science & Technology in both paper and electronic formats, provides recently free post-prints in "forthcoming papers" part in its Website. So, it is considered as the only journal which presents e-print archive, in this country.
The purpose of this poster is to illustrate how this initiative is implemented, and also its influence on changing a published paper role as "live" knowledge, capable of stimulating scientific debate at the time of publication, not as a document to be archived as a matter of record.
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