IEA, ETDE Executive Committee - 2004
The aim is to have influence on the IEA implementing agreement IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) through participation in ETDE's executive committee and in ETDE's technical working group.
Under the IEA-ETDE (Energy Technology Data Exchange) agreement a common database is produced containing descriptions of journal articles, reports, books, conference papers etc. published in the member countries. The IEA-ETDE Executive Committee supervises and develops the cooperation in order to improve the coverage of the database and to use moderne information technology for the production and accessibility of the database. The common database ETDE World Energy Base is available at www.etde.org/etdeweb. ETDEWEB is free of charge for Danish users. The tasks of the executive committee also include planning of the common marketing activities. The decisions of the executive committee are binding for the member countries and the Operating Agent (US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information). The executive committee has set up a Technical Working Group with the task to discuss technical issues related to the database and to recommend to the executive committee any technical developments to be implemented. In 2004 the Danish representative of the technical working group is member of subgroups related to 1) coverage of EU publications, 2) developing a new concept for the operational plan, and 3) test of full-text downloads. In 2004 the executive committee meeting is held in Canada and the technical working group meeting in USA. Danish participation in the ETDE cooperation is essential for two reasons: 1) For Denmark it is important that information about Danish research results is made available internationally. Information systems - databases - are one of the instruments for distributing information about Danish energy research, and ETDE World Energy Base has the best coverage of citations to energy literature. 2) The ETDE agreement is essential to secure access of Danish research institutions and industry to international research results through the ETDEWEB. Without the agreement Denmark would not have access to the database
In 2004 new guidelines for non-members' (developing countries') access to ETDEWEB were adopted. Developing countries are granted un-restricted access to the database. Users from 20 developing countries were given access in 2004 (Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Ukraine, Zambia, a.o.). The executive committee has looked carefully at the estimated expenditure, which is very tight. Some cost reductions were found leaving room for small improvements of ETDEWEB. In 2004 the agreement lost Italy as a member, but Portugal is expected to become a new member very soon. A new concept for an operational plan was adopted. The concept was developed by a subgroup of the technical working group with the participation of the Danish representative. Recommended by the technical working group, web-links to journal articles in full-text are now automatically assigned in ETDEWEB. This facility increases the usability of the database enormously because many universities and other scientific institutions have subscription licenses to the large publishers. The technical working group has begun analysing the possibility of getting agreements with journal publishers (Elsevier, a.o.) to buy data for relevant articles in order to get the data into the database more efficiently and to improve the coverage. The Danish representative has participated in a subgroup to find ways to get EU reports covered in ETDEWEB. The work continues in 2005
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Contact
P.O. Box 49
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
www.risoe.dtu.dk
Pedersen, Birgit (afd. chef), 46774001, birgit.pedersen@risoe.dk
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