Everybody present in IFLA is invited to visit my colleagues' poster in poster session, the exhibition floor No. 37 stand. I wrote about this poster before but I like to remind you again and encourage you don’t hesitate to visit the poster and IRANDOC delegated for information exchange and a friendly conversation. There you can receive an IRANDOC Catalogue and be familiar whit the first publication and the only one that has article in print part In Iran.
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.
