What is E-LIS and why an open archive for LIS?
E-prints for Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an international open access archive for e-prints related to Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines, in keeping with the objectives of the EPrints movement and the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) movement.The purpose of E-LIS archive is to make full text LIS documents visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable, and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet. Furthermore, this service aims to support individuals who wish to publish or otherwise make their papers available worldwide. Open access to LIS papers and their dissemination can also support the building of international LIS networks. Currently, the library and information world is strongly integrated with the areas of computing science and technology. Moreover, institutional metadata creation proves costly, while a more effective means is provided via the growing trend of authors’ self archiving in the framework
