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ETH E-Collection - an Innovative Publication Platform for Scientists

Karlovy Vary, elpub 2002

Ursula Jutzi

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ETH Library

Functions - main library of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of

Technology) - Swiss national centre for scientific and technical

information

Collection- 5.6 million items- 6000 journals (over 5200 online full-text) - 130 multidisciplinary, bibliographic databases

- over 700 e-books

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ETH World: Functions

provide a virtual campus for ETH Zurich

augment the present physical locations with a virtual space

support the activities of the ETH community

create a universal virtual communication and cooperation platform

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ETH E-Collection: Aims

provide a platform for documents published outside traditional publishing houses (grey literature)

make publications easily available on the Internet

store electronic documents of the ETH Zurich centrally and catalogue them according to international standards

easily-searchable modern research instrument

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Milestones

October 2000: project initiation with doctoral theses of the ETH Zurich

September 2001: first hundred full-text documents online (not doctoral theses)

January 2002: official start of the ETH E-Collection with new Web design

Summer 2002: intranet solution on new platform upload server

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Acquisition: Policy

no central policy for deposition of electronic documents with the library

doctoral students must present the library with print copies – provision of an electronic version is optional

library will digitise printed documents

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Acquisition: PR Activities

telephone marketing

posters, flyers

ETH World luncheon

quarterly mailings

specialised press

presentations

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Technical Implementation

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Technical Framework

Hardware

- Dell PowerEdge 4600

- 2 Intel XEON Processor 1.8 GHz

- 2 GB RAM

- RAID 5 Disk Array 420 GB

Software

- Windows 2k

- Apache 2

- Perl

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Documents

Documents in the ETH E-CollectionOverall: 3173 full-text documents (14.10.2002)

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Dissertations (overall)

Dissertations (external)

Reports

Diploma theses

Habilitations

Series papers

Conference papers

Journals

Teaching materials

Semester assignments

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NEBIS Catalogue (User View)

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NEBIS Catalogue (MARC-Format)

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Extract Perl Program

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Usage: Analysis

Not counted

- search-engine accesses are not counted

- IP addresses with more then 5000 accesses are not counted

Counted with limitations

- GET-requests with result-code 2xx and 3xx

- requests with similar parameters (type, number, name, part) from the same IP-address are counted as two accesses if there is a time gap of more than 1200 sec (= 20 min) between requests

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Usage

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Usage

Electronic DissertationsPDF documents accessed: October 2000 - August 2002

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Future: Cooperation with OAI

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International Networking

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ETH E-Collectionhttp://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/

Contactmailto:e-collection@library.ethz.ch

Authormailto:jutzi@library.ethz.ch