OPEN ACCESS IN CONFLICT WITH COPYRIGHT AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS By Dr. Ta Ba Hung Director, NACESTI, Vietnam 2 nd International IFLA Presidential Meeting Berlin, Feb 2008

Main Content NACESTI and Open Access in Vietnam NACESTI and Open Access in Vietnam Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing S&T Information for Socio-economic Development in Rural and Mountainous Areas Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing S&T Information for Socio-economic Development in Rural and Mountainous Areas VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online

NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam + NACESTI – National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information + Largest public library & Information centre for Science and Technology in VN + Target users: Policy makers, researchers, educators, students, entrepreneurs, population in rural areas + NACESTI belongs to MOST

NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam + Digital Content development: Generation & Development of national databases: 1. Vietnam S&T Literature : Journal articles, proceedings 2. Completed R&D reports 3. Vietnam Market of Technologies 4. Digital Library on S&T for rural development 5. OPAC, Union Catalog for serials Most of these database are available on public Internet

NACESTI & Open Access in Vietnam + Development of VISTA (Vietnam Information for S&T Advance) –a leading portal on S&T Information on S&T : Development of VINAREN (Vietnam Research & Education Network) – an advanced information network for research and education community in the country – TEIN2 and APAN member + Publishing 10 + bulletins and journals (print and e- version) + Development Vietnam Library Consortium on e-resources (40 members, national license for 15,000 e-journals (EBSCO databases) and license for 175 e-journals of Black Well.

Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing S&T Information for Socio-economic Development in Rural and Mountainous Areas Knowledge Commune - Model of Providing S&T Information for Socio-economic Development in Rural and Mountainous Areas It aims to make meaningful contribution to eradication of poverty and improving quality of human life in rural and mountainous areas by timely providing and intensively using relevant, reliable digital information and knowledge It aims to make meaningful contribution to eradication of poverty and improving quality of human life in rural and mountainous areas by timely providing and intensively using relevant, reliable digital information and knowledge Digital content : Digital Library on S&T for rural development (on CD-ROMs or on portable hardisc ( GB) that contains: Digital content : Digital Library on S&T for rural development (on CD-ROMs or on portable hardisc ( GB) that contains: + 50,000 + full text documents (PDF) digitized technical movies tittles + Database on experts and consultancy organizations ICT facility: PC, VCD/DVD player, TV set, Dial-up/ADSL Internet connection ICT facility: PC, VCD/DVD player, TV set, Dial-up/ADSL Internet connection Commune Web page (hosted on ) Commune Web page (hosted on ) This model has been implemented in more than 200 communes in 34/64 provinces in the country. This model has been implemented in more than 200 communes in 34/64 provinces in the country.

VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online Project VJOL was initiated in June 2006 and officially launched in September 2007 with support of INASP It aims to promote the awareness & use of Vietnam- published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents, abstracts and full text on the public Internet. VJOL uses the Open Journal System created by the Public Knowledge Project (University of British Columbia in Canada). This is an open source and allows the journal content listed on VJOL to be indexed through Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to research. It harvests the metadata for each journal article, making this work readily available to global audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among the worldwide research community

VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online VJOL provides participating journals the opportunity to take control of the area within the VJOL: to load, edit and to update their own journal information. VJOL provides participating journals the opportunity to take control of the area within the VJOL: to load, edit and to update their own journal information. VJOL provides information on each participating journal: aims and scope, contact details and general information, Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available. VJOL provides information on each participating journal: aims and scope, contact details and general information, Tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available. All the material on VJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors – each journal will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that fails outside Fair Use. All the material on VJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors – each journal will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that fails outside Fair Use.

VJOL – Vietnam Journals Online As of the January 2008, VJOL has: As of the January 2008, VJOL has: - 15 journals (6 joined in 2006 & 9 joined in 2007) - 47 Tables of Contents listing 499 articles, 330 of the articles are available in full text (PDF) - There have been 2,935 people with 3,246 visits to VJOL website (from Nov 2007 to Jan 2008) (Google Analytics); the visitors to VJOL came from 82 countries/territories, 29,890 full text articles for VJOL journals have been downloaded from Aug 2006 to Dec This is a great success of VJOL project at the very starting step! - At present, VJOL website is hosted in Canada ( ) VJOL will be hosted and maintained in Vietnam by NACESTI during VJOL will be hosted and maintained in Vietnam by NACESTI during 2008.

Conclusion - Vietnam has been lately involved in realization of Budapest Open Access Initiative - Vietnam has to encourage developing digital content, especially Vietnamese content for free access on public Internet - NACESTI has actively taken part in facilitating Open access to national and international science knowledge and cultural heritage.

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