Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2004

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2005

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2005

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2006

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2006

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Professional Licensing and Regulation Division Performance Report, FY 2007

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2004

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2005

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2006

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2007

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2008

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Iowa Department of Commerce, Iowa Insurance Division Performance Report, FY 2012

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The new culture of electronic publishing

Local conditions in the past often limited opportunities for scholarly exchange. But now these limits are gone and the global workplace has replaced them. It is important to react to these changes. Every academic department must now adopt new methods and rethink processes. Another is the intense national and international debate about open access to scholarly knowledge. The Open Access Initiative shows that a change is taking place in the communication process. This change is also important for service departments within research institutions. Libraries, computer centers and related units have to ask themselves how to react appropriately to the new conditions. What services must be changed or redeveloped, and in what quality and quantity should they be offered? This article focuses on changes in the scholarly publication process. It describes both technological changes and the changes needed in people's attitudes.

The Brazilian electronic theses and dissertations digital library: providing open access for scholarly information

This paper describes a project led by the Instituto Brasileiro de Informações em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), a government institution, to build a national digital library for electronic theses and dissertations - Bibliteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD). The project has been a collaborative effort among Ibict, universities and other research centers in Brazil. The developers adopted a system architecture based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) in which universities and research centers act as data providers and Ibict as a service provider. A Brazilian metadata standard for electronic theses and dissertations was developed for the digital library. A toolkit including open source package was also developed by Ibict to be distributed to potential data providers. BDTD has been integrated with the international initiative: the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation (NDLTD). Discussions in the paper address various issues related to project design, development and management as well as the role played by Ibict. Conclusions highlight some important lessons learned to date and challenges for the future in expanding the BDTD project.