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The interest in the field of agriculture responds to a need recognized by all international organizations, being its maximum exponent the Zero Hunger goal, within the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030. It is necessary to seek the best methodologies and strategies to improve research in this area. The goal of this study is to investigate useful methodologies to determine compliance with the FAIR principles in the field of agriculture, taking as a reference two resources: Data Citation Index (DCI) and F-UJI tool, developed by the FAIRsFAIR team.

The main directions of digitalization of the system of continuing education in the line of production and operational search of information and bibliographic resources of scientific and educational topics are considered.

Introduction The centralization process of the Document Supplies Services (DSS) started in 2008. During the process a restructuring of the tasks performed by the staff was made. This centralization allowed the library staff to diversify their work and invest this time in other projects that were being starting (training plan, social networks, Infosalut.com, etc.). Objective The objective of this centralization was to democratize and centralize the access and most relevant information management at a single point available both on the Bibliosalut webpage and the linksource tools on the different databases. Method We decided to use the management system GTBib-SOD, a form to requests documents was integrated in a linkresolver and different procedure were created to manage the different tasks related with de DSS, to divide the work and establishing different timetables to attend this service, thanks to that the library staff were not all their journey dedicated to this service. Results Request time during 2018 was of 1.05 days for users request documents, and 0,06 for libraries request documents. Thanks to a satisfaction survey in 2015, we know that this service is greatly appreciated by the users, since the score obtained was 8.81. The number of requests was raising constantly until 2016, then started to decrease significantly in 2017. Conclusion The timetable made to manage the DSS allowed the staff not to work all the time on this service, and dedicate more time to other tasks. During 2018, the response time during 1.39 days for positive response to the users; and 0.08 days for other libraries. We think that this proves that, thanks to good time management, it is possible to coordinate this service correctly, and in this way, diversify tasks of the virtual library staff.

Presentation at OAI 10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications. Session on the Future of Repositories University of Geneva, 21-23 June 2017 http://indico.cern.ch/e/oai10 Video of presentation: https://bit.ly/2xsk7Bt

It explores the science of information, from the point of view of its establishment as a disciplinary field. its components and features are analyzed from the organizational, systemic and methodological-functional perspectives. archive, library and museum, each with their type as systems and subsystems characterized documentary information. the forces operating in the environment of these pieces of information from the perspective of different authors and approaches are detailed. the documentary information system as instituting disciplinary field core is set. It studies how this system works in each of the members of the field disciplines. different graphics seeking to be teaching tools for understanding the topic discussed are provided. A number of conclusions are generated.

This is a cooperation project whereby the group of eHealth library members of Rebisalud (eHealth Libraries Network – http://www.rebisalud.org) have developed a core set of quality indicators to measure and evaluate the services provided by the newly implemented eHealth libraries in Spain. This core set will help us to understand objectively the functioning of the different services provided by the libraries, as well as to facilitate the comparison of our libraries to learn from each other in order to improve our services. The norm ISO 11620 (Library performance indicators) was revised. First, we developed a classification scale to screen the indicators focusing on virtual libraries; three independent reviewers rated each indicator with that scale. Second, they calculated independently to assess their feasibility. Third, a core of 17 indicators was selected. Finally a consensus was reached among the leaders of the eHealth libraries members of Rebisalud. Results: With the classification scale only 20% of ISO’s indicators were selected, with most indicators related to non-virtuality like physical facilities being excluded. We found important problems with definitions or concepts, as well as problems with the terms used among our libraries. As a result of the whole process 20 indicators were defined. They are classified in terms of: structure (human and economic resources, electronic collection), process (use of resources, access) and results (efficiency, user satisfaction). Each indicator is described by name, code, definition, aim, method, interpretation, and information source. The cooperation has been very productive, and will allow us to make a continuous exercise of benchmarking among the eHealth libraries of Rebisalud. However, more work has to be done because we still need to construct a user satisfaction questionnaire.

Technology, needs and preferences of users are helping to drive change in libraries of all kinds. The new concept of research library of the future involves a change which is taking a stance sometimes challenging and controversial. Libraries are changing, reimagining spaces, defining its mission and expand its services to remain relevant in the future. The academic and research library is fast becoming a multifaceted facility designed to support a wide and varied range of research and learning for both students and researchers. This paper analyzes the main trends of future scientific library such as management and linking large sets of data, services through digital devices, changing the opening of higher education, competence based learning, altmetrics and digital humanities; which will affect the transformation of space, collections and the tasks performed by professionals more oriented learning support than traditional tasks.

This paper entitled "Survey Document Supply Service (SOD) by 2014 Bibliosalut evaluation system GTBib-SOD" explains the experience of using the evaluation system GTBib-SOD provides for a survey of automated users . To do this, the need for this study in the Virtual Library of Health Sciences of the Balearic Islands, who participated in the project, which were the targets and where regulation is based is justified. The study continues to show in detail the details of the work, focusing on the technology used, the advantages of using an automated system to manage the survey and proposals for improvement. All this in parallel with the presentation of the results from the survey in terms of Virtual Library.

Introduction The aim of this work is to analyse the technical development performed in SCIENTIA, digital repository of the Ministry of Health. SCIENTIA project arises from the will of the Ministry of Health to provide open, free and permanent access to scientific knowledge generated by the different entities of the Catalan Public Health Administration, with the aim of increasing the visibility, impact and recognition of the research that is being conducted. Material and methods The operating characteristics of SCIENTIA have been defined: a) Context: community and audience, content typology, general conditions for the acceptance of documents and intellectual property; b) User policy: roles and access levels; c) Flows and processes: documental channel and preservation policies; d) Software technical characteristics and requirements, functionalities of content and collection management system, technical administration and services for users. To make the repository interoperable and to exchange data with other data collection and exploitation system of scientific output, metadata schemes based on the reference Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Dublin Core’s metadata standards, DRIVER guidelines, Creative Common licenses and a permanent URL were applied. Results With the development and implementation of SCIENTIA, we have obtained a tool that allows: to create and share knowledge, collect and preserve scientific output, increase the public value of participating institutions, and to maximize the visibility and the impact of scientific output. Conclusions The digital revolution has changed the way of disseminating scientific information. Access to scientific output is basic for research, innovation and scientific heritage preservation. To have a tool that promotes an open, free and permanent access and enables scientific knowledge to be disseminated, shared and preserved over time is basic.

OBJECTIVE: To identify the scientific journals asked by users, not available in Spanish libraries. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed article applications processed during the years 2012 and 2013 (a period of important budget cuts in many libraries) by the interlending services of four hospitals of the Spanish region Castilla-La Mancha, two of them university hospitals. We identified those article that could not be served through national interlibrary loan, excluding from the sample those that were not served for the following reasons: Erroneous citation or not enough data, user cancellations because of cost or journal being binded at the time of request. RESULTS: Out of a total of 19.159 requests received from our users, we identified 1.033 requests that could not be served, corresponding to 665 journal titles. Problems encountered include: • Old references not covered by current collections • References in rare languages ​​(Chinese, Japanese ...), Only a small core of journals had a certain demand level (there were only 2 with with more that 10 requests). Among them, some titles have been identified that have been rejected by some library and obtained otherwise, usually using the lists of searches. CONCLUSIONS • We believe that the method could be extended to other libraries and would serve to identify certain gaps in our collections that could be solved cooperatively. • Given the dispersion of the titles requested, it could be more advantageous to purchase articles on demand than to subscribe to journals, but we do not have administrative mechanisms that assure us a speedy purchase. • Further updating of collective catalogs is required. • We detected some degree of "variation in practice" that influences the results. • Some requests indicated that users need some training.

After a decade of development and strengthening of different regional and institutional initiatives about open access to scientific communication (institutional, thematic and / or gray literature), attributed to scientific knowledge as a common good is a battle that is still far from won. Faced with an context encouraging, publishing oligopoly is reconfigured with new strategies and business models. On the other hand, the movement "opennes" continues to advance in the world at the same time that academic and political worlds continue intertwining: Open Access, Open Educational Resources, Open Data, Open Hardware and Open Government

This research makes a historical analysis of how the law has developed in science, technology and innovation and how librarianship perspective this development can be measured through the scientific literature, where thanks to the number of articles and citations generated the same can generate an impact indicator of public spending in this area, and so in this way to assess whether public policies are being assertive. Worth mentioning that in some areas these measurements can be criticized for being selective as they are just some magazines and certain characteristics that are integrated into these systems, but ultimately are the resources used by the Mexican government in order to have a state of art of producing its researchers, as these topics.

Following the death of the library director of the Astronomical Observatory of Cordoba, and the loss of his post, the two remaining librarians had to rethink solutions to the library problems. In this regard they chose a pragmatic approach, organized around three main interrelated themes: people, resources and institutionality, which enabled to re-define the course of the library, inserted it into the institutional project providing specific value and generating the necessary impact to ensure the future of the library next to the Astronomical Observatory of Cordoba.

The article made ​​public the achievements and the prospects of the State Scientific Pedagogical Library of Ukraine. Sukhomlinskiy as scientific and methodical center of a network of educational libraries MONMS NAPS of Ukraine and Ukraine according to research as it develops. Characterized prospects information and communication libraries interaction with regional libraries.

Paper which has by objective to present Intranet as a tool suitable for cooperation between the librarians who work at the Instituto Nacional de la Tecnología Agropecuaria's library

he National Documentation Center (EKT) has developed HELIOS (http://helios-eie.ekt.gr) - the institutional repository of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) aiming at collecting the scientific work of its associate researchers. DSpace has been used as the repository platform in the implementation of HELIOS. According to the repository literature (A DRIVER’s Guide to European Repositories, Amsterdam University Press, 2008), offering value-added services to researchers can be an important factor for repository take-up, able to significantly increase deposits through self-archiving. Therefore, in order to encourage the usage of HELIOS among the NHRF researchers, an application providing value-added services over the repository has been developed. In brief, this application harvests the digital repository's data and presents them outside the repository's framework, enabling citation management and configurable custom reporting, for example producing publication lists per researcher and institute, exactly in the format applied in the institute annual report. The application is in operation on top of the HELIOS DSpace-based repository; however it has been designed and implemented to depend only on information retrieved via OAI-PMH, so that it can work with any OAI-PMH compliant repository platform (DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, etc.)

The ICT progress and development are making easier the set up of virtual libraries, with the consequent great advantages for users, in terms of immediate access to huge amounts of library information online resources and services. Most of the Autonomous Spanish Regions are presently working in the establishment of virtual libraries with the aim of optimizing economic resources destined to subscribe bibliographic information sources, and offering qualified documentary services to Public Health System Professionals. The Social Politics, Health Ministry, as a health matter unifying institution, issued this Project to study the National Health System Virtual Library creation viability, in order to guarantee relevant scientific information access equity.

Brief it traveled through by the current databases that offer bibliometric indicators on the current status of Colombia in biomedical matter.

The main benefit of open archives is to optimize the visibility of research results. Universities & research institutes have been setting up OAI compliant repositories with this aim in mind. INRA, a French organization and also the largest agricultural research institute in Europe has set up such a repository in 2005. INRA needs to identify and track its production because it must evaluate individuals, the labs, the departments, etc. and also to produce strategic indicators about the trends of our research activity. These indicators help INRA to direct funding and access the most advanced projects. In 2005, INRA planned a 5-years project to create an Integrated Information System (IIS) that combines different internal applications in order to exchange data and create services for the INRA research community. Directories of INRA people, activities and research laboratories are available in the internet. ProdInra aims to give a large audience to INRA products. As it becomes an applicative tool of this Integrated Information System (IIS), it can also provide services to the agricultural international community based on data coming from the IIS. This communication will present the Integrated Information System as well as the different services provided.

In this paper we would like to present the second phase of a Network Collaborative Project between medical libraries belonging to different institutions, located in different geographical areas and with different aims, objectives and interests (some of them focusing on research and teaching and other on medical practice). The main goal of this project from its conception has been developing an open, flexible, adaptive medical library, promoted by the community of participants, with the ultimate aim of supporting higher education, research and clinical practice or care, as well as of serving as a tool for the professionals working at the libraries. The platform of choice for us is NETVIBES. To achieve greater integration and effectiveness of the services we have conducted a review of the platform and have integrated two tools that we believe will facilitate the discovery and dissemination of scientific information in our area of expertise. They are two of the social references manager with more projection: CiteUlike and Connotea As often happens in social web services, online references manager are becoming cost-effective solutions that are simple, and powerful to collect large sets of metadata resulting from scientific collaboration. These are isolated data on interest, important for every researcher, but at the collective level are an interesting solution for the discovery and evaluation of large-scale scientific content. Through social reference managers selected, Connotea and CiteUlike, the working group MILK (Medical Information Library & Knowledge) has articulated a far more effective cooperation of the participating libraries and provided a new channel to promote and facilitate the discovery of scientific information between our users.

Data interlibrary loan (ILL), after having access to a number of packages of electronic journals (through a purchase made by our consortium of health libraries), we wanted to analyze the change in the number of ILL requests. So, we make a comparative analysis of the requests we made and we receive from other Spanish regions. We compared data of the previous year before having the electronic subscriptions (2006) and data of the last available year (2008).

Information literacy (IL) has been under active discussion within Finnish academic libraries from the beginning of this millennium. In the Development Plan for Education and Research 2003-2008 The Ministry of Education emphasises the role of the university libraries in contributing to the development of teaching and studying methods, thus ensuring that graduates have good information literacy. Finnish universities have implemented several projects in order to create standards and teaching aids promoting information literacy education and learning. The first major project was “Standardising the management of information literacy 2001-2003” by the Undergraduate Library of the University of Helsinki, the aim of which was to translate the ARCL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. In this paper we present a national project coordinated by the University of Helsinki and funded by the Ministry of Education from 2004 to 2006, the primary aim of which was to enhance integration of information literacy into the academic curriculum. We will present the main results of the project, the current situation in information literacy education in the University of Helsinki and the future of it in Kumpula Science library.

This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles.

This project is taken from an electronic communication that the authors held with Mr. José Antonio González Treviño, Chancellor of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous Univeristy (UANL, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León), Mexico, to whom this project was presented on 8th May 2008. The project has the aim to become the First Institutional Repository in Open Access to all Scientific and Professional Research at Nuevo Leon Autonomous University, Mexico (RIAAI-UANL) in all the university disciplines included Librarianship, Library Science, Information Science and other Documental Information Sciences.

In the last five years the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library underwent a major staff shortage that resulted in the slowing-down of some services and the abandonment of other vital activities like regular weeding of the reference collection. Many print indexes and abstracts (e.g., Science Citation Index and Chemical Abstracts) were canceled in favor of electronic access but the old print volumes remained in reference. The reference collection occupies a prime location in the library. This space could be repurposed. The challenge we face is where to house this large volume count. This paper will provide information on best practices in weeding print reference collections. The tips were gathered from a review of literature on collection management at other academic, public and special libraries.

This paper present the information services for research through a "knowledge portal" whose objective is the production, integration and knowledge management (Firestone 2000). This model is presented as a tool fundamental for the production of new knowledge in the formal investigation.

Preprints and published material are not the only output from high energy physics research that should be archived for future generations. Data are frequently not stored long-term and yet examples have arisen where such storage has been proved necessary. There are also lost possibilities for training, and indeed the records of science for future generations are diminished by the absence. Lessons learned from previous attempts and from other fields for which experimental data are successfully stored, can be used to build a storage paradigm for the future. Data from particle physics experiments are highly complex but a collaborative effort from IT staff, librarians, and physicists can perhaps have success. Issues requiring consideration include: who will have the right to access the data; how will access rights be managed; what level of data should be stored; for what length of time should the data be stored, and what additional information associated with the data must be collected. Technical problems associated with the storage and future use of analysis software must also be tackled.

Some features about the Polytechnic University of Valencia Library (Spain) project, PoliformaT integrated with the Polibuscador experience are described, from the point of view of the European higher education

Some features of the DARE Program (2003-2006), Digital Academic Repositories in the Netherlands, are described, regarding to the European higher education.

The experience and expectations of the PoliformaT project of the Polytechnic University of Valencia Library (Spain) using Sakai integrated with the Polibuscador are described, regarding to the European higher education.

Some features and statistical data about institutional repositories, academic and digital libraries in Spain including their usage, are described regarding to the European higher education.

This paper describes a course-centered approach to the evaluation of academic library collection for instructional program reviews. The method is based on the assessment of collection supporting individual courses by comparing the materials available directly to the library clientele in a bibliographic database with the items demanded by a course. It hilights the metadata XML application to representing the instructional programs in all it's aspects, joined with the XSLT uses, to obtain an automatic collection evaluation preparing reports to asses in a dinamic way the needs of each course in a shortest time. The technique provides a smarter and practical tool for further selection of resources. Beyond, other technologies associated to the XML metadata can make easy the collection planning,for example, accessing the results of the non existing materials right on an on-line bookstore, like Amazon.com, obtaining this way specific datas about the items needed to be acquired.

The creation of a Physical Union Catalogue constitutes a big technical challenge and simultaneously a challenge for the qualitative upgrade of the services provided by the Hellenic Academic Libraries. The qualitative upgrade consists of the unification of the existing electronic catalogues and the creation of an Interlibrary Lending System for the members of Hellenic Academic Libraries Network. The inhomogeneity of the information systems that we meet in the field of the Hellenic Academic Libraries constituted the most difficult issue in the implementation of Physical Union Catalogue. Nevertheless, the coordinated efforts of the Central Team of the Union Catalogue and the supporting firm have yielded important results. The experimental base of Collective List is currently consisted of 9 (out of 37) collections. The number of records exceeds the 450.000 (as on 10/7/2005), and the prospect is to incorporate at least 20 libraries until the end of year with more than one million records originated from 5 different systems. This paper intends to inform on the stages that are followed for the incorporation of a collection and presents the conclusions that are coming out. Moreover the activities that have been undertaken aiming at the creation of a collaboration network between the academic libraries are presented. Indicatively the following are reported: the definition of persons in charge per institution, the creation of an electronic forum for specialised Discussion Groups and the definition of Permanent Committees for Descriptive and Subject Cataloguing. The final objective remains the maximisation of the level of quality of the offered services in the libraries and in the final user.

The main part of a health service library collection are the serial holdings. Since the introduction of electronic journals, these can be divided in two types of serial holdings: paper format and electronic format. Storage space shortages also determine that in many cases the paper format has to be split into multiple locations, and this is creates accessibility problems for users. With the aim of satisfying the new requirements of hospital libraries users, the personnel of the Mostoles Hospital Library has developed a new service, “Bibliographic Orientation Service” (BOS). This service assists users providing information about the location of serial holdings and also facilitates bibliographical advice. The main conclusions 2 years after BOS implementation are that it has become one of the star services of our Library. This service is used for specific purposes and it has not impeded the development of bibliographic skills by library users. Besides, this innovative service has improved the use of the holdings and also the control of the interlibrary loans.