Electronic information sources III

The objective of this text is to acquaint you with other sources, in addition to electronic library indexes and scientific databases, that is with digital libraries, repositories and subject gateways, and to explain what Open Access is and how you can use it.

 

Module objective:

• to acquaint you with freely accessible scientific sources

• to explain what digitization means

• to explain what a digital library is

• to present digitization projects

• to present the initiative of an open access to scientific information - Open Access

• to explain the concept of subject information gateways and present some of the gateways

• to show other possibilities of searching for scientific information on the Internet

 

 

Time expenditure

The expected time expenditure of the module as far as study is concerned: 1.5 hours. The expected time expenditure for working out an assignment: 1 hour.

 

Keywords:

digitization, digital library, subject information gateway, Open Access, repository, subject-specific repository, open journal

 

Study material

Recommended bibliography

DivX In Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. St. Petersburg (Florida): Wikipedia Foundation, [cit. 2010-04-11+. Dostupné z WWW: .

ENRICH PROJECT: european networking resources and information concerning cultural heritage [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Eprints [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-04-11+. Open Access Glossary. Dostupné z WWW: .

The European Library [online]. c2005 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Europeana: think culture [online]. Version 1.0. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29]. Dostupné z WWW: .

FFV1 In Wikipedia : the free encyclopedia [online]. St. Petersburg (Florida) : Wikipedia Foundation, [cit. 2010-04-11+. Dostupné z WWW: .

FLAC [online]. (c)2000, 2009 [cit. 2010-04-11+. Dostupné z WWW: .

The fundamentals of Manuscriptorium [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

International Children's Digital Library: A Library for the World's Children [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

International Children's Digital Library: A Library for the World's Children: Mission [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

JPEG In Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. St. Petersburg (Florida) : Wikipedia Foundation, [cit. 2010-04-11+. Dostupné z WWW: ..

Licence Creative Commons [online]. c2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Manuscriptorium: Building Virtual Research Environment for the Sphere of Historical Resources [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Max-Planck_Geselshaft [online]. 2019, 2009 [cit. 2010-04-11]. Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities . Dostupné z WWW: .

Open access journal In Wikipedia : the free encyclopedia [online]. St. Petersburg (Florida) : Wikipedia Foundation, [cit. 2010-04-11+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Open Archives Initiative A [online]. 2010 [cit. 2010-03-29+. Dostupné z WWW: .

Project Gutenberg [online]. 2009, was last modified on 29 November 2009 [cit. 2010-03-29]. Dostupné z WWW: .

 

Homework

• In the DOAJ directory, find three titles of freely accessible journals from the field you are studying.

• Go through the mentioned registries and try to find almost one digital repository from your study field. 

• Go through the mentioned gateways and try to find almost three documents from the fiel you are studying. 

• Find several titles (almost 3) from The European Library or Europeana.eu from the fiel you are studying. 

 

Send your homework to e-mail till 30. 11. 2014!