Thanks very much Franck. Please do something to improve the English language interface so that non-French speakers can also get the maximum benefit from this service. Arun Franck Laloe wrote:

In this line, I would like to add that, in France, the CNRS (national research agency covering almost all disciplines) with INRIA (nationtal agency for computer science) started a few years ago an ArXive like system, called Hal. The system is automatically connected to ArXiv, but covers more disciplins. There are articles in physics and maths, but also education, history, archeology, computer science, etc.. The metadata are more structured than in ArXiv, so that automatic extractions of the production of laboratories, institutes, universities, etc.. is possible. It can also provide multiple environments, and create "collections", etc.. You can have a look at:

http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/

but, unfortunately, for lack of time the English version of the interface is not very good for the moment. The whole archive is only starting, and for the moment contains altogether about 10 000 full text documents, which is only the beginning, but the input flux is constantly increasing.

best wishes

Franck

_______________________________________________________________ Franck Laloë, LKB, Dept physique de l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F 75005 Paris (France) tel et fax 33 (1) 47 07 54 13 -- laloe@ens.fr

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