EPSCoR States Information Network

该项目涉及四个EPSCoR州（佛蒙特州、西弗吉尼亚州、爱达荷州和阿肯色州），将建立一个试点电子文件传递网络，利用网络化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。通过提供即时获取多种研究收藏的科学期刊文章的高质量副本，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。快速获取基本科学信息是发展充分竞争的研究环境的关键组成部分。虽然通过传统的馆际互借安排和系统（如OCLC），其他州的主要研究馆藏资源长期以来一直可供支持EPSCoR项目的机构使用，但处理此类请求所涉及的时间往往会降低它们在竞争性研究中的作用。基于传真技术的商业文件传送服务最近出现了，但由于科学/技术文献的覆盖范围有限，并且依赖于一种传输媒介，这种媒介缺乏准确复制关键底片、照片、公式和表格所需的高分辨率，因此其生存能力受到限制。利用电子传输技术加强四个参加国现有资源共享网络将是一项一次性投资，对支持研究的信息提供的质量和及时性产生持久影响。将这种访问扩展到四个州的集合馆藏，并在每个主要机构的专门目标领域加强研究期刊的持有，将进一步扩大可用信息的基础。一旦对期刊备份和传输设备进行了初步投资，本项目所作的改进将由各机构的基本预算维持，从而对竞争性研究所必需的信息基础设施进行系统的改变。一旦测试成功，这一概念将在后期阶段发展，包括其余14个EPSCoR州，其中许多州表示有兴趣在未来加入该项目。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，从而使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.