Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:49:14 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
Here are the main Eprints milestones listed by Stevan Harnad in another list
I subscribe to. Many lis-forum members may find this useful. Incidentally,
participants of the three-day workshop on Open Access to be held at MSSRF,
Chennai, in the first week of May will get trained in the use of Eprints
software. For more information on the workshop, please contact Mr S
Senthilkumaran, Associate Director of Informatics, MSSRF, Chennai 600 113
.
Arun
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The GNU Eprints software itself, with Chris Gutteridge's continuous upgrades
incorporating features requested by the user community
http://software.eprints.org/
Eprints runs an Institutional Archives Registry (not just for Eprints
Archives) http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php It currently lists 143
archives (11 of them Dspace, 123 of them Eprints) Please come and register
your Archives too!
Eprints has also created an Eprints Handbook (funded by the Open Society
Institute) to help universities create OAI Archives and to develop
procedures and policies for filling them:
http://software.eprints.org/handbook/
Eprints also created and hosts the BOAI self-archiving FAQ:
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ as well as the BOAI Forum
http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php
Eprints's Steve Hitchcock and other Eprints staff and students have
generated the many OpCit projects and papers on citation linking and
analysis, self-archiving users surveys, etc. http://opcit.eprints.org/
Eprints' Tim Brody's citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ is a
citation-link-based "google" for the OA literature, ranking papers and
authors by citation impact or download impact. The download/citation
correlator/predictor can also predict eventual citations from today's
downloads: http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php
Eprints deposited in Eprints accordingly focus on the article's reference
lists and citation linking. Mike Jewell has created paracite which seeks the
full-text of cited articles on the web. http://paracite.eprints.org/
Eprints has also developed models for university self-archiving policy that
universities can consider adopting along with the Eprints software:
http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php as well as the model
Tardis project http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html
Eprints's Mike Jewell has also created a standardized OAI CV that
universities and research funders can use in research evaluation and
performance assessment: http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/
Eprints's Tim Brody has also created Celestial, a software that harvests
metadata from OAI-compliant repositories and re-exposes that metadata to
other services http://celestial.eprints.org/ as well as an oai-perl
library http://oai-perl.sourceforge.net/
Eprints staff have contributed to many conferences and workshops to promote
self-archiving in general (and Eprints in particular), e.g.:
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html
Eprints runs three mailing lists for users: EP-General, EP-Tech and
EP-Underground http://software.eprints.org/maillist.php as well as a
demonstration server in which potential adopters can try out the features of
Eprints: http://software.eprints.org/demo.php
Eprints provides powerpoints to be used for the promotion of self-archiving
and Open Access Provision:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/openaccess.ppt
Eprints is conducting an extensive series of digitometric studies to measure
and document the dramatic degree to which open access enhances research
impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/brody-impact.pdf
Eprints is also one of the cornerstones of the ePrints-UK Project:
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/ as well as a contributor to the
JISC Romeo Project (on publishers' policies on author self-archiving)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/ Stevan Harnad
