From the RePEc perspective, a discipline can be viewed a set of four basic elements that are related to each other: paper, collection,

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:46:21 -0600 From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of the last and final part in my series on Open Archives Initiative Service Providers: "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part III: General," Library Hi Tech News 21 (1) (January/February 2004): 38-46. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-III.pdf In this part, I profile: CILEA Open Archives Platform http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000518/ ePrints UK http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/ NDLTD Union Catalog (Electronic Thesis/Dissertation OAI Union Catalog bases At OCLC) http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~etdunion/search.html OAIster http://www.oaister.org Public Knowledge Project Archives Harvester http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/ **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of previously published articles that profile Open Access and the Open Archives resources and services: "arXiv.org: The Los Alamos National Laboratory e-Print Server," International Journal on Grey Literature 1 (3) (2000): 127-138. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/arXiv.org.pdf ABSTRACT Since its creation nearly ten years ago, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e-print service (arXiv.org) has revolutionized scholarly communication within many scientific communities. It has also inspired the development of alternatives to conventional and electronic journal publication in a variety of other disciplines. The LANL e-print database is also serving as the core collection for two major investigations that seek to enhance access and navigation within and between electronic archives and special collections. NOTE: The arXiv.org is now based at Cornell University. http://www.arXiv.org **************************************************************************** "Perspectives in Electronic Publishing: An Open Access-Dynamic-Virtual Electronic Journal, " Library Hi Tech News, 18(9) (October 2001): 19-27. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeP.pdf ABSTRACT Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ pep.nsf/) is a "new model e-journal" that covers a broad range of topics relating to electronic networked publishing, with an emphasis on academic publishing and journals. In addition, PeP includes publications that discuss a wide range of scientific, technological and humanistic disciplines in the context of electronic publishing." As characterized by its editor, Stephen M. Hitchcock, Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (PeP), is a "distributed linkbase journal" and an "evaluated journal with full-text papers distributed on the Web." PeP may also be considered a review journal in that it provides critical assessments of major aspects and components. journal in that it provides selected extracts from source publication. In that it provides summaries and indexing of its primary and secondary content, it may also be considered an abstractingand indexing service. Alternatively, PePmay be viewed as a "vertically integrated portal", a resource discovery tool, or a subject-based information gateway ("What is PeP?", n.d.). In that its core content - open access full-text publications - is not original to the journal but incorporated within it, PeP may also be viewed as a "virtual e-journal http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf ************************************************************************** "RePEc: An Open Library for Economics," Library Hi Tech News 18(3) (April 2001): 21-31. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/RePEc.pdf person, and institution. Using a distinct ReDIF template for each of these elements, RePEc offers a centralized catalog of records for working papers, journal articles, and software components (paper); journals and working paper series (collection); authors of papers or editors of collections (person); and the names of organizations that conduct economics research (institution). http://www.repec.org **************************************************************************** Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Previously Published Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty." Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)