DLIST Advisory Board and DL-HARVEST Established

Name: Anita Coleman
Phone: (520) 621-3565
Email: anita.dlist@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the establishment of an Advisory Board for DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, and delighted to invite the community to explore DL-Harvest.

The members of the first DLIST Advisory Board are:

• Subiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India
• Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, Association for Research Libraries, Washington, DC
• Rachel Bower, Co-Director, The Internet Scout Project, Madison, Wisconsin
• Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, California
• Birger Hjørland, Research Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark
• Christopher Khoo, Programme Director and Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Brief biographical sketches of the DLIST Advisory Board members are available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/advisoryboard.html. The Advisory Board is helping DLIST build a dynamic public domain for the library and information professions and disciplines.

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. DL-Harvest is using PKP Harvester with software improvements for flow control, sets, and advanced searching, that have been developed by DLIST Graduate Research Assistant, Joseph Roback. Besides DLIST, the current list of 11 archives harvested includes selective harvesting from ArXiV. DL-Harvest is available at http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu.