Author self-archiving via e-print archives

• Discipline-based: Physics (Los Alamos), CogPrints (Southampton)
  • PrePRINT Network
• Institutional: Nottingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• Open Citation Project (Citebase)
• eprints.org

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Discipline-based – There are other discipline-based archives besides the Physics example - CogPrints at Southampton (come back to it). There are others listed on the handout, including the PrePRINT Network - a web gateway to pre-print servers in various disciplines.

Institutional – Universities and research organisations place their research publications in e-archives accessible to all. There have been developments in USA, Europe, Australia and the UK – talk later about the UK developments

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is setting standards to permit cross-searching of different archives.A technical initiative concerned with metadata standards and interoperability, but also with a political agenda to promote the transformation of scholarly communication. Promoted by JISC and funding agencies in the USA. And now adopted (Nov 2002) by 121 repositories globally.

OpCit: The Open Citation Project – concerned with integrating and navigating e-print archives by citation linking. Cornell and Southampton Universities. Jointly JISC and NSF funded. Developed Citebase – “designed to be a Google for the refereed research literature” (Hitchcock et al)

EPrints.org - freely available software to set up and run a pre-print server, developed by the OpCit project. JISC funded