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Newsletter N°80 - May 2022
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Days Abes 2022

The Journées Abes 2022 will take place on 21 and 22 June at the Corum in Montpellier. The programme is now available!
Registration is open, via the Sciencesconf.org website. The creation of an account on this platform is a prerequisite for registration.

Securing access to documentation

All web pages concerning the documentation of professional and public applications (the methodological guide, user manuals, online help) will switch to secure access (https) from 16 May 2022. An automatic redirection is set up; thus the references to the old URLs (in http) present in your bookmarks, your documents or your web pages remain valid.

National licenses

Liber, the European Association of Research Libraries, calls for OpenAcess and proposes 4 recommendations for negotiations with publishers.
As part of the continuous improvement of the data offered in Sudoc and in the national knowledge base BACON,Abes has taken over the entire reporting of the resources acquired under national licences. For most of the corpora, the access data, particularly the URLs, have been revised to correct errors, update the access protocol (from http to https) and integrate permanent URLs. In Sudoc, the work also involved the recovery of other information: DOI, access notes and cleaning up the B200 area for periodicals.

The history of Abes

A timeline is now available on our website. Candidates for the library competitions will find there the most important facts of the Agency's history.
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The life of networks

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STUDY DAY: On 24 May, the online study day "Starred Authorities: Sharing Recipes for Quality Data" will take place. The menu, which we hope will be enticing, will present all the necessary ingredients for a "three star" work on authority data.
Registration is now open.
ENRICHMENT OF TP1 NOTICES: a quality project, the aim of which is to enrich "Natural persons" status "1" records, has been launched among the Authority Correspondents until 30 June. The J.e-course which presented the methodology and the modalities of the project is now available.
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Calames network

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENTS: in accordance with the decision of theAbes and in response to the demands of the network, the year 2022 is devoted to the development of the Calames tools (catalogue and production tool). IT developments have begun and improvements are already visible, in particular the improvement of response times for certain search functions on the public catalogue. The Calames correspondents are regularly informed of new developments as they are put into production.
WG CALAMES: Abes would like to fill the two vacancies left by members leaving their institutions due to transfers. Applications should be sent before 13 May 2022.
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Sudoc network

    REPORTING OF "ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES" ARTICLES: Abes would like to thank the 24 institutions that participated in the flash survey on the integration of metadata of articles from the online encyclopaedia "Techniques de l'ingénieur" into the national tools. The decision on whether or not to integrate this metadata into the national tools will be communicated later.

    BACON - OPTIMIZATION OF ACCESS TO KBART FILES: the download time of KBart files is now improved in order to offer better retrieval by different users (commercial knowledge bases, professional library users).
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    Sudoc PS network

    ENHANCING THE CORPUS OF AUTHORITY RECORDS TO SERVE MIR@BEL'S NEEDS: the networks Sudoc, Sudoc-PS and Mir@bel have collaborated in a new quality project, intended to enrich the reporting of French scientific publishing. Abes thanks the CR managers, authority correspondents and cataloguers of continuing resources who participated in this project, by creating or enriching more than 200 authority records for the communities identified as publishers of continuing resources.
    REPORTING THE OLDER PRESS: The Sudoc-PS network will be represented by Julie Mistral (Abes) at the Journées du Patrimoine Écrit (23-24 June, in Rouen), during a round table entitled "Legal issues and reporting the older press: essential prerequisites for digitisation".
    PROFESSIONAL DAY: on 7 April, CR 27 organised its 8th network day for libraries specialising in legal, economic and political sciences. The theme chosen was "Bibliographic transition and open science: what implications for the reporting of serial publications? The presentations are available.
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    THESIS DATA ON DATA.GOUV.FR: the theses.fr dataset, deposited byAbes on the open platform of French public data has been harvested by data.europa.eu, which adds an international dimension to the visibility of French doctoral theses.
    MY THESIS IN 180 SECONDS: the national final will take place on 31 May. Find out about the 116 finalists and their preparation institutions.
    DEFINITION OF "UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY": since the publication of the decree of 25 May 2006, the term "university community" has raised questions from institutions, particularly with regard to the rights of dissemination of the thesis. When asked to give a definition of the perimeter of this community, MESRI specifies that this notion is understood at the national level only.

    STAR TRAINING: A training session for all newly appointed Star users (and those who wish to update their knowledge) will take place atAbes from 9 to 11 May.

    Dates to remember

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    • 9-11 May: training Star trainingAbes
    • 16 May: securing the documentation web pages
    • 24 May: Study Day "Star authorities".
    • 30 May to 1 June: annual meeting of the Permanent Unimarc Committee
    • 3 June: closing date for registration for the Days Abes 2022
    • 21 and 22 June: Abes 2022 days at the Corum in Montpellier
    • 23 and 24 June: annual meeting of relay trainers Sudoc at theAbes
    • 23 and 24 June: Written Heritage Days in Rouen
    • 30 June: end of the "Authority records for status 1 natural persons" quality workstream
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    The training courses ofAbes in 2021-2022


    TheAbes training team and, above all, the 13 relay trainers from the Calames and Sudoc networks enabled nearly 250 colleagues to receive face-to-face training. The online sessions (initial and continuous training) generated more than 746 connections.
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