ISSNs etc.

The ISSN number of the AARE Conference Papers on-line publication is ISSN 1324-9339 and the disk/CD publication [of the same material] is ISSN 1324-9320

ISSN Numbers of AARE Publications:
PRINT AND ELECTRONIC

One aspect of achieving recognition for AARE members' work is to have it referenced in the international bibliographic services. There is no longer any doubt that these services recognize electronically published material. AARE has obtained ISSN numbers for all its serial publications - print and electronic. This includes:

About ISSNs

ISSN numbers are allocated in Canberra and registered in Paris for the international bibliographic community and hence the public domain. AARE publications are included in world wide abstracting services and lists of periodicals etc. This ensures that AARE members' work is able to be located through all bookshops, periodical services organizations and libraries in the world.

AARE's Universal Coding System

The paper copies and electronic copies of conference papers are numbered and coded with the same file names as conference presentations by AARE Office Services before they are delivered to ACER. Thus there is a universal file code identifier across WWW, disks sets and hard copies of papers that leads to the author/s and other crucial information. The coding started in 1989.

Prior to 1997 Paper Codes take the form of the first four letters of the family name of the first author, that person 's first initial of first given name, the year number [eg. 95] a period or dot, followed by a unique 3 digit running number assigned by the particular conference [usually in order of receipt of abstracts]. For example NURKF90.123

The 1995 conference added the letter 'S' to designate a symposium paper. For example NURKF95.123S

After 1997 the coding was changed slightly to reflect the HTML form of publication. The code then became the first three letters of the first author's family name, a two digit year number, a unique three digit running number, and an HTML extension. For example NUR99123.HTM. This format conforms to the 'old' DOS 8.3 file name standard.

Indexing of AARE Publications

The ACER is responsible for indexing the conference papers [indeed all Australian educational publications] into the Australian Education Index. The AEI and its CDROM version AUSROM are linked into a world wide reciprocal agreement to ERIC in the USA thus obviating the need for ERIC to receive AARE papers and to index them.

The WWW collection of AARE Conference papers (1993 -1995) is WAIS indexed for for keywords searching and gopher and similar tools access the directories of AARE papers arranged by the unique code outlined above. AARE Conference abstracts are maintained in the AARE home page so that researchers may browse 'elaborated contents' before reading or down-loading the full papers. The WWW collection is found by world wide web crawler search software used on the Internet.

Current AARE practice is to combine all the abstracts into one HTML document. While this does generate a large document which is consequently slow to load, it does give the benefit that the abstracts are also able to be searched for any word or phrase by the reader's internet browser.

Legal deposits of AARE Conference Papers
and other publications

The Australian National Library has a full collection of AARE Conference Papers on Disk since 1989. We gave them back numbers when they decided to accept electronically published materials in about 1991. They also have all other AARE publications. As we publish in Victoria we also make "legal deposit" in the State Library of Victoria and we give our publications to the Parliamentary Library of NSW because they asked for them. We could extend this to other States if members and the libraries wish.

ACER Repository

ACER has a full collection of the AARE Conference Papers on Disk and as well a paper copy of every paper that has been deposited at conferences by presenters. The hard copy lodgement pre-dates the start of the electronic versions. Copies of these papers are available on Inter-library Loan from ACER by other libraries, with vouchers. ACER also has copies of all other AARE publications.