AmSci Thread:
"Open access jeremiads, archivangelism and self-archiving mandates" (Aug 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5580
(Bravo to CalTech, one of the earliest and most dedicated of IR
adopters: See References at the end. -- SH)
http://archives.eprints.org/?action=search&query=caltech&submit=Search
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:16:32 -0400
From: George Porter <george_at_library.caltech.edu>
To: SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum_at_arl.org>
Subject: [SOAF] Practice what you preach
Lest anyone think that, to use the Texas idiom, I'm "all hat, no cattle"
<
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/all+hat,+no+cattle.html>
[1], I'd like to point out that CaltechAUTHORS
<
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/> has surpassed the 4000 record
mark. CaltechAUTHORS is only one of the repositories comprising the
Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives)
<
http://coda.caltech.edu/>.
Other archives with substantial amounts of online content:
Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports
<
http://caltechcstr.library.caltech.edu/>: 420 reports
Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports
<
http://caltecheerl.library.caltech.edu/>: 308 reports
Engineering and Science Online <
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/>:
280 issues
Caltech Electronic Theses and Dissertations <
http://etd.caltech.edu/>:
2857 records
Caltech Archives Oral Histories Online
<
http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/>: 60 records
Caltech Parallel and Distributed Systems Group
<
http://caltechparadise.library.caltech.edu/>: 76 reports
CAV2001: Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation
<
http://cav2001.library.caltech.edu/>: 110 papers
[1] George S. Porter, Let's Get it Started! Issues in Science and
Technology Librarianship, Summer 2006.
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http://www.istl.org/06-summer/viewpoints.html>
George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
http://library.caltech.edu
contributor
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Pertinent Prior AmSci Topic Threads:
"Chron. High. Ed. 18 September on Cal Tech & Copyright" (Sep 1998)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0104.html
"Scholars' Forum: A New Model For Scholarly Communication" (Mar 1999)
http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/
"The Need To Re-Activate the Provosts' Initiative" (Feb 2001)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1197.html
"Eprints works! Caltech registers two new repositories in OAI!" (Jun 2001)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1358.html
"What Provosts Need to Mandate" (Dec 2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#3241
"Open access jeremiads, archivangelism and self-archiving mandates" (Aug 2006)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5580
Putting Provost Principles Into Practice: II
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/119-guid.html
Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 18:06:03 BST