Abstract
To strengthen and facilitate French research: this is the goal the Ministry of Higher Education and Research wants to achieve with its ISTEX project. France, along with the rest of the world, has faced huge price increases in the acquisition of academic electronic resources during the last decade, and its institutions are now finding it difficult to pay to access them. The Ministry has therefore decided to invest in an extensive electronic archives acquisition programme in order to give the academic and research community nationwide access to a very large corpus of data in all disciplines. This project will consist of two phases: acquisition of the archives themselves and the development of a single platform to host the data. This platform will offer seamless unique access to all the resources purchased and will provide a range of efficient services to researchers.
Highlights
To strengthen and facilitate French research: this is the goal the Ministry of Higher Education and Research wants to achieve with its ISTEX project
The main objective of the ISTEX project[1] is to offer to the entire higher education and research community remote online access to the retrospective collections of scientific literature in all disciplines. This national archives acquisition policy will comprise the purchase of mainly journals archives, databases and corpus of texts. This project is part of the ‘investment for the future’ programme initiated by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, whose ambition is to strengthen the position of French research and higher education on the global scene
The four partners together form the executive committee, assisted by a representative of the Ministry, and they are in charge of overall coherence and of the follow-up of the project
Summary
The main objective of the ISTEX project[1] (initiative for excellency in scientific and technical information) is to offer to the entire higher education and research community remote online access to the retrospective collections of scientific literature in all disciplines. This national archives acquisition policy will comprise the purchase of mainly journals archives, databases and corpus of texts. This project is part of the ‘investment for the future’ programme initiated by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, whose ambition is to strengthen the position of French research and higher education on the global scene. Signed in April 2012 by the State, the National Agency for Research (ANR)[6]
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