ICSTI Reports

New Frontiers for Scientific and Technical Information

Report of the ICSTI 2008 Public Conference held 11-12 June 2008 at the COEX International Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
Summary Report


Towards a Collaborative Strategy for the Use of e-Journals

Summary Report of the Meeting of Publishers and ICSTI National STI Centre Sub-Group held 19 January 2007 at The British Library, London, U.K., January 2007.
Summary Report


ICSTI-IUCr study on the long-term availability of the digital records of science

Study carried out by IUCr on behalf of ICSTI, May 2005.
Study


DIGITAL PRESERVATION AND PERMANENT ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION: The State of the Practice

In 1999, ICSTI and CENDI jointly sponsored a report on Digital Electronic Archiving: The State of the Art and Practice. Both decided to sponsor an update of this report (completed on February 2004) because they represent large repositories, publishers, and libraries of scientific and technical information.
To download the 2004 update click here. To download the initial 1999 report click here.


THE INFORMATION IMPERATIVE: A Framework for Measuring Impacts of STM Information Services and STM Organizations

What are the social and economic impacts of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information organizations and their services? How can these impacts be measured? This study identifies areas where STM information organizations provide value to society and offers a generic framework for measuring key socio-economic impacts. STM organizations will find useful guidelines for planning and carrying out their own impact assessments. Click here for more information on the study.

To download a copy of the study, click here.


IOS PRESS: The Proceedings of the 2003 ICSTI Conference on Open Access

Following up on some earlier discussion concerning last years Open Access issue of Information Services and Use, we are happy to inform you that they have made this issue 'open access'.
Go to http://www.iospress.nl/html/01675265.html and click on 'contents', you will see issue 23 Nos. 2-3 in bold face. Clicking on that will show the contents of the issue where you can browse the articles in full text.