On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Mike Gardner wrote:
> http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.pl
> http://software.eprints.org/archives.php
> http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=3Dbrowse
>
> Wouldn't it be clever if some of these lists could be automatically
> generated from one master list (eg the OAI one) ?
It would be clever -- if there were a master list, and all the archives
were in it, but there isn't one.
OAI
http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.pl
in fact contains fewer archives (147) than the Institutional Archives Registry
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=3Dbrowse
which contains 192. OAIster has still more (277)
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
but many are not for eprints (preprints, postprints, theses)
and UIUC
http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/
has the most (531) but they are not all active, and many are not
for eprints.
The Institutional Archives Registry is focussed specifically on eprints
(preprints, postprints, theses) in universities and research institutions
worldwide.
The cleverest would of course be if archives didn't have to be registered
at all, but were simply harvested. Celestial
http://celestial.eprints.org/
does this to a certain extent, but it still has not managed to find all
of them. An OAI-compliant-Archive Harvester will certainly come, once
there are more archives, with more content. That's the priority right now.
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
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BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
journal whenever one exists.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
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Received on Mon Apr 26 2004 - 00:44:08 BST