EPSCoR States Information Network

Abstarct 744 Happ EPSCoR国家信息网络 该项目涉及EPSCoR的四个州（佛蒙特州、西弗吉尼亚州、爱达荷州和阿肯色州），将建立一个试验性的电子文件传递网络，利用联网电信系统传输数字化信息，以满足100多名广泛分布的EPSCoR研究人员的信息需求。 通过提供从多个研究收藏中的科学期刊上立即获得高质量文章的副本，这些研究人员可以获得的科学和技术信息基础将大大加强，从而刺激许多领域竞争性研究的发展。 迅速获得基本科学信息是发展充分竞争的研究环境的一个关键组成部分。 虽然其他州的主要研究馆藏资源长期以来一直通过传统的馆际互借安排和OCLC等系统提供给支持EPSCoR项目的机构，但处理此类请求所需的时间往往会减少其在竞争性研究中的作用。 最近出现了以传真技术为基础的商业文件传递服务，但由于科学/技术文献的覆盖面有限，而且依赖于一种传输媒介，这种媒介缺乏精确复制关键印版、照片、公式和表格所必需的高分辨率，因此其可行性受到限制。 利用电子传输技术加强四个参与国现有的资源共享网络将是一次性投资，对支持研究的信息提供的质量和及时性产生持久影响。 将这一访问范围扩大到四个州的汇集馆藏，并加强每个牵头机构在专门目标领域的研究期刊持有量，将进一步扩大现有信息的基础。 一旦对期刊备份和传输设备进行了初步投资，该项目中引入的改进措施将由各机构的基本预算维持，从而为竞争性研究所需的信息基础设施带来系统性变化。 一旦经过测试，这一概念将在以后的阶段发展，包括其余14个EPSCoR国家，其中许多国家表示有兴趣在未来加入这一项目。 此外，可以考虑将接收设备直接放置在EPSCoR研究人员和私营部门伙伴公司的实验室中，从而能够将信息传送到研究人员的桌面上。

Abstarct 744 Happ EPSCoR States Information Network The project, involving four EPSCoR states (Vermont, West Virginia, Idaho, and Arkansas), will establish a pilot electronic document delivery network utilizing transmission of digitized information over networked telecommunications systems to meet the information needs of over one hundred widely-disbursed EPSCoR researchers. By providing immediate access to high-quality copies of articles from scientific journals in multiple research collections, the base of scientific and technical information accessible to these researchers will be greatly enhanced, thus stimulating the development of competitive research in many arenas. Rapid access to essential scientific information is a critical component in the development of a fully competitive research environment. Although the resources of major research collections in other states have long been available to institutions supporting EPSCoR projects through conventional interlibrary loan arrangements and systems such as OCLC, the time involved in processing such requests often lessens their usefulness in the conduct of competitive research. Commercial document delivery services based upon fax technology have recently emerged, but their viability is limited by restricted coverage of the scientific/technical literature and dependence upon a transmission medium which lacks the high resolution necessary for accurate copying of critical plates, photographs, formulae, and tables. The enhancement of existing resource sharing networks in the four participating states with electronic transmission technology will be a one-time investment with a lasting effect upon the quality and timeliness of information delivery in support of research. Extending this access to the four states' pooled collections and strengthening research journal holdings in specialized targeted areas in each of the lead institutions will further augment the base of available information. Once the i nitial investment in journal backfiles and transmission equipment has been made, the enhancements introduced in this project will be maintained by the institutions' base budgets, bringing about a systemic change in the information infrastructure necessary for competitive research. Once tested, this concept will be developed in later phases to include the remaining fourteen EPSCoR states, many of which have expressed interest in joining this project in the future. In addition, the opportunity for placing receiving equipment directly into the laboratories of EPSCoR researchers and partner corporations in the private sector may be considered, enabling information delivery to the researchers' desktops.