Beginning September 14, 2010, E-LIS has the largest collection of documents written information science on the Web and are freely available. In Spanish there are about 3,960 items, while in all the languages together a total of 1100. This means that more than one in three articles in the archive E-LIS are in Spanish. In English there are only 3,388 items. To put this in terms relevant: Spanish is the language most represented in this database.
The description on its "About E-LIS is as follows:" E-LIS is a free repository created in 2003 for the depository of documents within the subjects of Library and Information Science and related topics. It is the first international e-server dedicated to this subject area, and its objective is to promote the Open Access philosophy through a core business: providing access to texts and Science Library Information. For this, the volunteers work with a large number of individuals from different countries and with different academic backgrounds. It is therefore an initiative which is non-profit and in line with the FOS movement ( Free Online Scholarship) and E-Prints, the latter based on standards and protocols of the OAI (Open Access Initiative). E-LIS is the result of the project DoIS RCLIS and promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and maintained on servers CILEA (Interuniversity Conzorcio Lombardo per Ellaborazione Automatica) Italian.
Although the e-LIS project was a joint effort between the Ministry of Cultures of Spain and Italy, the literature of library science in science of Spanish libraries is the dominant content of the database.
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