About DLIST
What is DLIST?
Established in 2002, DLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The dLIST vision is to serve as a dynamic archive in the Information Sciences, broadly understood, and positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields.
DLIST Advisory Board
Current members of the (second) DLIST Advisory Board are: Luz Marina Alvare, Head, Library and Knowledge Management, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.; Subiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India; Leslie Chan, Program Supervisor, Joint Program on New Media Studies and International Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborogh, Canada; Chris Hagar, Head of Library Development, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), Oxford, UK; Christopher Khoo, Programme Director and Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and, Dennis Ocholla, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Zululand, Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Biographical sketches of the members of the DLIST Advisory Board can be found here. The members of the first board can be viewed here.
Invitation to Participate
We invite authors in the many related disciplines that revolve around Information such as Archives, Human Computer Interaction, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and Management Sciences, to self-register and deposit their papers. Authors can choose to participate by contributing their research papers and other scholarly materials.
Why should I deposit in DLIST?
As an Open Access, cross-institutional interdisciplinary repository, DLIST improves the visibility and impact of deposited works in several ways:
DLIST lower barriers to access of materials in LIS and IT disciplines by making them freely available. Research has shown that papers with online access are more frequently cited.
DLIST makes available a wide range of resources created by researchers and practitioners in LIS and IT. DLIST provides the opportunity to make your work widely available in a variety of formats (*.pdf, *.doc, *.htm, *.html, *.ppt. *.ps, *.ascii *.zip *.gz *.bz2).
DLIST is part of a global network of research information. The content of DLIST is accessible through the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Where can I find out more about DLIST?
The most recent DLIST news release (June 2006) can be found here.
Three papers have been published about DLIST and we have also made several presentations at conferences; these will provide you with more information and can be found by following this link.
Additionally, Documentation about DLIST is available by clicking here.
DLIST Internships
Graduate students in Library and Information Science, Computer Science, and Management Information Science are invited to consider being a DLIST Intern. More information about DLIST internships can be found here.
DLIST Policies
Research - DLIST is currently completely funded by grants; browse through our unfunded Impact of Open Access on LIS IMLS and DLISTConnection NSF proposals to get an idea of the sorts of things we have been considering.
DLIST Services and Forms
We offer copyright research and deposit (including metadata creation) service. For more information, visit DLIST Services and Forms
DL-Harvest
DL-Harvest is a federated archive, an open aggregator service of DLIST. It brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences from many different OAI-PMH compliant repositories. Besides DLIST, the current list includes selective harvesting from ArXiV, E-LIS, and OCLC Research and others). DL-Harvest is using PKP Harvester with software improvements for flow control and sets that have been developed by DLIST Graduate Research Assistant Joseph Roback. DL-Harvest is available at http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu.
DLIST/DL-Harvest Usage Logs
Web usage statistics data for DLIST and DL-Harvest are currently being gathered using AWStats (http://awstats.sf.net). This log file analyzer has some limitations. For more information visit, DLIST Usage Reports.
