Education-line: Electronic Texts in education and training
- Project web site
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/index.html
- Programme area
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Pre-prints
- Contact details
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Mr Philip Sheffield, Project Manager,
British Education Index Brotherton Library University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT
Phone: 0113 233 5524 Fax: 0113 233 5524
Email: p.w.sheffield@leeds.ac.ukMr Hugh Wellesley-Smith, Deputy Librarian,
Edward Boyle Library University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT
Phone: 0113 233 5542 Fax: 0113 233 5539
Email:
Project description
As of 24th July 1996
Introduction
After the first round of eLib project funding for electronic journals, it was noted that "The main gaps identified are the wider exploitation of informal communications across the network, such as pre-print archives, grey literature and quality assurance (including refereeing) in an electronic context." Education-line is one of the projects resulting from recognition of this gap and addresses all of these issues.Description
Within its initial remit as an electronic archive of preprint and grey literature in the field of education and training, Education-line has several objectives:- to establish a generally accessible database of texts awaiting "traditional" publication or without widespread availability, making research results more quickly available
- to facilitate visible discussion about such documents and general education and training issues
- to provide a wide community of users with an information resource which promotes quality research and practice
The project will address many of the issues raised generally by all of the eLib strands such as:
- quality control in an electronic environment
- the peer review process, both as a quality control mechanism and as a dynamic and visible educational process
- general copyright issues
- the accessibility of documents which are currently hard to find (or to find out about)
- the nature and pattern of research and document presentation
- the relationship between the availability of information through electronic and traditional print media and how a community of information users and providers reacts to a new medium.