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he head of the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information '€” Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII LIPI), Sri Hartinah, gave a 10-minute talk at the '€œOpen Access '€” A World of Knowledge for All'€ discussion in @america at Pacific Place, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, recently.

The discussion centered on why libraries across the globe embrace Open Access to bring scholarly research and publications to all. There were four other speakers: Myra Brown from the American Embassy in Jakarta; Christel Mahnke from the Goethe-Institut, Jakarta; Aditya Nugraha from Petra University, Surabaya; and Jonner Hasugian from the North Sumatra University, Medan. The last two speakers delivered video conference talks.

Sri pointed out what LIPI had done well in terms of open access. Since the establishment of the PDII LIPI in 1965, the main tasks of the working unit have been to provide information support for research in Indonesia, documentation and information work related to national science technology (sci-tech) activities, databases of sci-tech literature produced in Indonesia and special publications/products to support the dissemination of sci-tech information.

The collections owned by PDII LIPI include comprehensive reports on research conducted by higher education institutions and research centers in Indonesia (63,000 titles), Indonesian journals (7,000 titles) and dissertations by Indonesian scholars published in Indonesia (4,500 titles).

The collections have been stored in some databases; Indonesian Scientific Journal Database isjd.pdii.lipi.go.id; Institutional Repository (LIPI-IR) ir.lipi.go.id; katalog.pdii.lipi.go.id/ebook/ for e-books and multimedia.bit.lipi.go.id/ for online multimedia.

As written on the website, ISJD holds a collection of scientific journals published in Indonesia and submitted to PDII LIPI. As of December 2013 there were more than 7,000 scholarly journals published and less than 4,000 journals that continue to send publications to PDII LIPI.

There are currently 5,900 accessible journals from both universities and research institutes with more than 170, 000 articles.

Meanwhile, LIPI-IR is the official institutional repository of LIPI, which aims to improve public access to scientific information as a part of LIPI'€™s commitment to support the global open access initiative.

The e-book database uses a three-dimensional database framework that can be applied in research institutions, libraries and universities. The main contents of the site are books and research results generated by LIPI researchers and books purchased from the Science Direct database for limited access.

Cited from '€œAbout Us'€, the last site is an application of video streaming that displays videos about research and development of science and technology in Indonesia, as well as the appropriate technology that applied by the lower layers of society to support their economic activities.

Swistien Kustantyana
Jakarta