E-LIS fala Português? É um prazer conhecê-lo!

The E-LIS project is presented as an Open Access repository for the scientific and technical production in the LIS domain, as well as in areas of interdisciplinarity; its production goes from theory, case studies, to educational and training resources; allowing self-archival for authors and the input of adequately exhaustive metadata, the repository foresees peer edition by members of an international collaborative team; search tools, usage statistics and a promotional policy are associated to publishing and selective dissemination, which together now posit it as the major repository in its area of expertise, having surpassed 5000 documents in January 2007. E-LIS main recent achievements are mentioned as well as the advantages of Open Access publishing. Statistical data concerning abstract views and downloads from Portuguese-speaking countries are displayed. A call for document archiving is made