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 --------- 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