Israel Scholar Archive : About
About Israel Scholar Works
Israel Scholar Works (ISW) is a digital archive ( repository
) for creative work by the faculty, staff and students of Israel Academic
Institutions and Jewish scholars all around the world. Israel Scholar Works
aims to facilitate innovation in the production and dissemination of Israel
scholarship, to unite Israel and Jewish scholarship, to make it available
to a wider audience, and to help assure its long-term preservation. While
Israel Scholar Works presently focuses on postscripts
(or postprints) of articles published in peer-reviewed journals and on
thesis by scientists and students working in Israel, Israeli scientists
on Sabbatical and postdoctoral fellows working abroad (as well as those
who identify him/herself as an Israeli scientist), in future the
Repository will offer
direct control over creation and dissemination of the full range of
scholarly
output, including pre-publication materials, conference proceedings and
book chapters.
For The Public | For
Funding Institutions | For Submitting Authors
For The Public
Beginning September, 2006, Israel and/or Jewish
scholars are asked to submit voluntarily to Israel Scholar Works the author’s
final manuscript upon acceptance for publication. Israel Scholar Works
is the digital repository of full-text, peer-reviewed articles and other
creative scholarly works such as advanced professional degree thesis. It
is publicly-accessible and searchable electronic archive available on the
Internet at http://israelscholar.org/.
The author’s final manuscript is defined as the final
version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications
from the peer review process. At the time of voluntary submission to Israel
Scholar Works, the authors will specify the timing of the posting of their
final manuscript for public accessibility through Israel Scholar Works.
As the archive grows, global scholarship and the public will be more readily
able to access an increasing number of Israel scholar research publications
in a single source.
For Funding Institutions
Israel Scholar will gladly consider grant support by
any interested party and cooperation proposals to help developing Israel
Scholar Works
Beginning September, 2006, Israel and/or Jewish
scholars are asked to submit voluntarily to Israel Scholar Works the author’s
final manuscript upon acceptance for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific
journal.
Israel Scholar Works thus provides another way for
Israel and/or Global Jewish scholar community to disseminate their
scholarship. It also allows the general public to freely access previously
published peer-reviewed articles authored by Israel/Jewish scholars.
The Israel Scholar Works STM Repository is hosted by the
Israel Scholar, a web based independent non-profit educational organization.
Run by scholars, Israel Scholar aims to promote and unite global Israel
Scholarship. Israel Scholar, its partners in Israel and across the global
academic world are reshaping scholarly communication. Taking advantage
of the modern Internet technology and its' end-user availability, Israel
Scholar took the responsibility to run Israel Scholar Archive, where every
Israel and/or Jewish scholar could personally permanently archive his or
her creative work, and make it freely available for peers and for the public.
It is widely accepted that current scholar publishing
models are not economically sound and do not serve the public interest.
Academic researchers, faculty and students have access to a decreasing
fraction of relevant scholarship. But new software tools and technologies
are being developed, tested and implemented. Israel Scholar Works
offers the tools to make Israel Scholarship dissemination quick and efficient.
Such digital archive therefores provide a platform to have Israel scholars
rights to regain control over their scholarship realised easily.
Additionally, Israel Scholar is running Israel
Scholar Communication Scrolls, an awareness service that helps scholars
to learn more about the
global crisis in scholarly communication, and to realise that the responsibility
and rights of regaining control of scholarly communication rests with scholars.
For Submitting Authors
Beginning September 2006, Israel scholars are asked to
submit to Israel Scholar Works an electronic version of the author’s final
manuscript upon acceptance for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
The author’s final manuscript is defined as the final version accepted
for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing
peer review process.
Israel Scholar Works is the Israel Scholar’s digital repository
of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published in scholar journals, thesis
and other scholarly works. It is a publicly-accessible, permanent, and
searchable electronic archive available on the Internet at: http://israelscholar.org/
. In case of an interest, an author, or his or her designee, may submit
voluntarily his or her final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to a secure web-based
submission system within Israel Scholar web site. The system collects certain
identifying information, including journal title, author contact information,
article citation details and abstract. The system also asks submitters
to review and acknowledge the terms and conditions of their submission.
Authors and/or their institutions should ensure that their Israel Scholar
Works submissions are consistent with any other agreements, including copyright
assignments that they may have, or enter into, with publishers or other
third parties. For a list of publisher policies as they relate to postprints,
visit the SHERPA web site.
To search self-archiving policy by journal please click
here.
To submit their articles authors will do minimal typing,
as well as a series of the article text copy-and-paste operations using
simple "Israel Scholar Works Submit
Now" web form page. An on-screen confirmation will be generated to
verify that the text content has been received by Israel Scholar. An additional
receipt will be emailed to submitting author to verify that all supporting
materials (such as image files, as well as original manuscript text file)
have been received.
As authors might well aware, the formatting of journal
articles may vary significantly among different journals. Israel Scholar
Works addresses this deficiency in that all articles in Scholar Works archive,
regardless of their original format, will be converted into a single, explicit,
and well-specified data format. Israel Scholar intends to use the Article
Archiving Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition (DTD)
developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) USA.
Corrections of content errors and other necessary revisions
of authors’ final manuscripts will be accommodated. Also, special arrangements
will be in place for lengthy thesis submission.
At the time of voluntary submission to Israel Scholar
Works, the author will specify when their final manuscript will become
publicly accessible through ISW.
Though the Israel Scholar anticipates that investigators
will use this opportunity to submit their manuscripts, sending electronic
copies is absolutely voluntary. Israel Scholar, however, will not add manuscripts
to Israel Scholar Works that are submitted in hard copy.
As additional details and instructions on the use of the
Israel Scholar Works manuscript submission system become available, these
will be posted on the Israel Scholar Works website at http://israelscholar.org/works/.
Further information will be posted here as soon as it
becomes available. Be the first to know about Israel Scholar Works developments
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