Citizen journalism: Open access to Indonesian journals | The Jakarta Post

"The head of the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information — Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII LIPI), Sri Hartinah, gave a 10-minute talk at the 'Open Access — A World of Knowledge for All' discussion in @america at Pacific Place, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, recently. The discussion centered on why libraries across the globe embrace Open Access to bring scholarly research and publications to all. There were four other speakers: Myra Brown from the American Embassy in Jakarta; Christel Mahnke from the Goethe-Institut, Jakarta; Aditya Nugraha from Petra University, Surabaya; and Jonner Hasugian from the North Sumatra University, Medan. The last two speakers delivered video conference talks. Sri pointed out what LIPI had done well in terms of open access. Since the establishment of the PDII LIPI in 1965, the main tasks of the working unit have been to provide information support for research in Indonesia, documentation and information work related to national science technology (sci-tech) activities, databases of sci-tech literature produced in Indonesia and special publications/products to support the dissemination of sci-tech information. The collections owned by PDII LIPI include comprehensive reports on research conducted by higher education institutions and research centers in Indonesia (63,000 titles), Indonesian journals (7,000 titles) and dissertations by Indonesian scholars published in Indonesia (4,500 titles). The collections have been stored in some databases; Indonesian Scientific Journal Database isjd.pdii.lipi.go.id; Institutional Repository (LIPI-IR) ir.lipi.go.id; katalog.pdii.lipi.go.id/ebook/ for e-books and multimedia.bit.lipi.go.id/ for online multimedia ..."