Case Study: Electronic Publishing Support Service at UiB

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Case Study Electronic Publishing Support
Serviceat UiB

• Gaëlle Bozec
• Bergen University Library, Norway

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Background information

• University of Bergen 17000 students, 2500
  faculty and staff, 90 different specialised
  departments, centres and institutes. UiB was
  created in 1946. There are only 4 universities in
  Norway.
• University Library of Bergen 7 libraries, 130
  staff 1,7 mill. books and periodicals. Budget
  ca. 12 mill.
• STEP (Electronic Publishing Support service) 1
  staff, created in 2001 as a pilot-project

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The past
1996/2000 Forskdok was a project that tried to
digitized whatever could be digitized (mainly
text) 2001 STEP (Electronic Publishing support
Service) was created by the Bergen University
Library.The aim of the project is to help
graduating students in order to produce
electronic theses.
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The present
STEP offer courses and on-line support to
graduating students. The 3-hours course
explain - the use of EndNote - what metadata
are - how to use stylesheets - what is the
benefit of electronic pubblishing - how to
digitize pictures After the course, STEP can be
contacted for more explanations or more help
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Some statistics
Most seen thesis www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/50600
1/ 1023 downloads (one year period) 302 thesis
are available online (95 of the in .pdf)
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The future
2 of the 7 faculties at the University of Bergen
have made the delivery of electronic theses
compulsary started on August, 1st 2004 STEP
(Electronic Publishing Support Service) will
become a permanent unit within the University
Library DSpace has been implented since March,
1st (with good help of the University Library of
Glasgow) University of Makerere (Uganda) is one
of our early adopters using DSpace
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For more information gaelle.bozec_at_ub.uib.no ht
tp//www.ub.uib.no/eng http//www.ub.uib.no/elpub/