# Improving Discovery and Collaboration in Open Science

## 1st -3rd February 2023

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### Local Depository Libraries

The pivotal role of the local depository libraries (Domain knowledge and expertise):

* Granting access to documents, publications, ... on paper

* Linking paper versions to electronic ones

* Suggesting how to use digital distribution or transforming full texts in textual data to enable further analysis and research done by users (Digital humanities)

The Library at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is currently learning how to introduce users (students or interested researchers) to text analysis techniques enabling them to access to those data and techniques

### The United Nations System of Depository Libraries

an OPEN community consisting of 350 depository libraries around the world with the aim to give users access to United Nations official documents, publications, ... A System born with the United Nations in 1947 and continuingly evolving.

### Going digital

(stopping of the paper copies distribution)
Two main milestones:

* 22nd April 2014, "A new strategic direction for UN Depository Libraries - Consultation paper", United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations Secretariat at New York.

* 1st December 2022, "The Communication of the United Nations Office at Geneva", Division of Conference Management, United Nations Office at Geneva.

### Open access and digital distribution

More and more documents, publications, ... accessible online (Open Science approach) and the passage to digital distribution: The United Nations Digital Library, the ODS (Official Documents System), Secretariat websites belonging to conferences, organizations, ...

working in Geneva and in New York, the United Nations Archives in Geneva (including League of Nations official documents and archives), ...