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.
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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