About OpenSIGLE
HISTORY
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SIGLE - System for Information on Grey Literature,
was created in 1980 in order to collect and to make available
grey literature produced in the countries of the European Community
by the intermediary of an online database.
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Created with the support of the European Community, the base was
produced from 1985 onwards by
EAGLE - European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation.
Each country is represented by one or more documentation centres or
libraries of national importance.
CONTENTS
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SIGLE is a multidisciplinary database, covering fundamental and applied
sciences, technologies, humanities and social sciences.
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The records are in English. They include bibliographical data, the SIGLE classification
codes (cf. Full Subject Category List) with their wording, and possibly an English summary
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The user is informed of the availability of the document and the conditions of access from
each supply centre. (see also a detailed description of supply conditions in each Collection
in Countries.)
OpenSIGLE
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In 2005, the members of EAGLE decided the dissolution of the association and the stop of supplying
new documents. The database SIGLE has been taken from all hosts proposing the base online.
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That is why INIST - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, launches the OpenSIGLE project :
transfer the SIGLE database to online open access, on a DSpace platform
(cf the site DSpacehttp://www.dspace.org/ ).
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Thus all bibliographical references are searchable again, henceforth free of charge, with OpenSIGLE.
THE PARTNERS
Currently, the ex-members of EAGLE which take part in the new project are :
| Germany |
FIZ |
Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe |
www |
| Spain |
CINDOC |
Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica |
www |
| Italy |
CNR - BICE |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale |
www |
| Portuguese Republic |
FCT |
Fundaçao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
www |
| Russian Federation |
VNTIC |
Scientific and Technical Information Centre of Russia |
www |
| Slovak Republic |
CVTI SR |
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information |
www |
| United Kingdom |
BL |
British Library |
www |
| France |
INIST |
Institut de l'information Scientifique et Technique |
www |
| Belgium |
UCL |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
www |
| Czech Republic |
AS CR |
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
www |
| Latvia |
LAL |
Latvian Academic Library |
www |
SUPPLY OF DOCUMENTS
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Documents should be requested from the national centre agent or from INIST,
via the order@inist command, in each record. The holding organization is
indicated in each full item record, in the field : description.provenance ,
for instance :
- description.provenance : Available from INIST (FR) : provider : INIST
- description.provenance : Available from TIB Hannover (DE) : provider : FIZ
- description.provenance : Available from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche : provider : CNR-BICE
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The supply of documents follows a different process according to different organizations
- Registered user only or not.
- Direct order: only by INIST for any type of document.
- Order via an e-mail, a fax, by phone etc....
- Mode of payment: invoicing, prepaid coupons, prepaid Units of Counts...
(Get more information with each Collection in Countries)
