Portal of the Armenian Digital Library launched

Since January 2007 the Fundamental Scientific Library of Armenia has been carrying out a series of activities to introduce Open Source Software solutions to the academic community, librarians, students and library users. Within this framework, the leading scientific institution in the country, the National Academy of Sciences, is building a repository with the goal of enabling access to the wealth of its scholarly literature. The portal of such digital repository uses Greenstone open source software and has recently gone public. As a result of this initiative, the annonated abstracts of the Academy's 13 journals, whose publication started as back as the 1940s, covering all aspects of Science, Technology and Medicine alongside other publications will be available. The portal is open to all Armenian research institutions that are willing to participate and a special software to convert the bibliographic data into the Greenstone format has been developed.