II Congreso Mundial de Usuarios de CDS/ISIS

Fecha: 20-23 setiembre 2005

Biblioteca Digital de la Educación Superior Cubana: 100% CDS/ISIS

Participantes:
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The CDS/ISIS is used at the Universities of the Higher Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba (HMEcu) about the middle of ´80. The most of librarians knows the CDS/ISIS tools and the total of the catalogs are published in intranets. The Digital Library of Higher Education is a national project whit the aim of supports the research and the education. There is a privet network between all universities and there is a strong intranet conformed to the sites of the 16 universities and five research centers of HMEcu. The full texts of 40 titles of magazines of the HMEcu and all of monographer were published there and it is hoped to count more than 100 titles of the other Cubans institutions. Tools 100% CDS-ISIS was used, fundamentally the WWWISIS-PL (WebLIS and WebAGRIS), Win ISIS, ISISASCII, SKW, among others. The full texts of more than 4,000 articles are available in http://revistas.mes.edu.cu/. There is a possibility of download the bibliographic registers in a format than can upload to commercial biblio graphic managers. The objective is to promote the construction of Personal Digital Libraries (PDL) in order to create a common tool for the scientific papers authors. The PDL is created for collaboration and we hope that will help to increase the number, the visibility and the impact of the Cuban science. In the other hand we promote the thematic digital libraries too. The first of these are de Digital Library of Agriculture in Cuba made with the collaboration of the Library of Cuban Representation of the FAO (http://revistas.mes.edu.cu/bdacu.portal/).
Objetivo:
The CDS/ISIS is used at the Universities of the Higher Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba (HMEcu) about the middle of ´80. The most of librarians knows the CDS/ISIS tools and the total of the catalogs are published in intranets. The Digital Library of Higher Education is a national project whit the aim of supports the research and the education. There is a privet network between all universities and there is a strong intranet conformed to the sites of the 16 universities and five research centers of HMEcu. The full texts of 40 titles of magazines of the HMEcu and all of monographer were published there and it is hoped to count more than 100 titles of the other Cubans institutions. Tools 100% CDS-ISIS was used, fundamentally the WWWISIS-PL (WebLIS and WebAGRIS), Win ISIS, ISISASCII, SKW, among others. The full texts of more than 4,000 articles are available in http://revistas.mes.edu.cu/. There is a possibility of download the bibliographic registers in a format than can upload to commercial biblio graphic managers. The objective is to promote the construction of Personal Digital Libraries (PDL) in order to create a common tool for the scientific papers authors. The PDL is created for collaboration and we hope that will help to increase the number, the visibility and the impact of the Cuban science. In the other hand we promote the thematic digital libraries too. The first of these are de Digital Library of Agriculture in Cuba made with the collaboration of the Library of Cuban Representation of the FAO (http://revistas.mes.edu.cu/bdacu.portal/).
1 He is the Head of Information Office of the Ministry of Higher Education in Cuba. He is Published scientific articles in the theme of Food Science and Library Science. He is a senior research at the Ministry of Higher Education and Titular Professor at the Cuban Informatics University and Director of “Editorial Universitaria” of Cuba. He is the national distributor of CDS/ISIS and main professor of the wwwisis-pl database administrator’s courses in Cuba 2 He is the Head of the Direction of Informatics of the Ministry of Higher Education in Cuba. He is the national coordinator of the project: “Program for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)” in Cuba. He is a senior professor at the Ministry of Higher Education and Titular Professor at the Cuban Informatics University..