About .eprints.org sites at Southampton serving Open Archives
The Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia (IAM) Group at Southampton University
is involved in a number of projects that collectively seek to promote the
dissemination of eprints, that is, scholarly papers destined for peer review
and publication in journals, and other forms of data via services that
comply with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The services these projects
provide are easy to locate from the generic .eprints.org domain
simply by inserting the appropriate prefix for the projects and forums
shown below, or just by inserting www. The main page for each site
presents a headline banner with links to the other sites.
The primary means for building eprint archives and services is self-archiving
by authors in institutionally-managed services or disciplinary archives
such as the arXiv physics archives. The principal feature of OAI eprint
archives is that they are available to everyone, everywhere, at any time.
Compliance with the OAI means that users do not have to locate works in
individual archives, but can use universal services, including search and
citation services for example, that improve access to works and enhance
the impact of research.
This page summarises the purpose and sponsors for each project, forum
and significant .eprints.org site, giving an overall impression
of the scope of this activity.
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www.eprints.org
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eprints.org, focal point for eprints.org activities - community building, support services and information on
institutional open-access archives. Funded by JISC. Go to eprints.org
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software.eprints.org
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GNU EPrints, free, open source software for building
OAI-based open-access institutional archives. Funded by JISC via the Open Citation Project and other
projects. Go to GNU EPrints
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opcit.eprints.org
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Open Citation project (OpCit), developing reference linking and citation impact
analysis for Open Archives. Funded to end 2002 by the Joint NSF -
JISC International Digital Libraries Research Programme. Go to OpCit
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citebase.eprints.org
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Citebase, citation-impact-measuring search engine for selected OAI-based open-access archives. Using data collected by the Open Citation project, Citebase offers citation and co-citation impact
analysis for every paper in the arXiv physics archives, and is extending
this to other archives. Go to Citebase
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paracite.eprints.org
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Paracite, citation-seeking search engine, looks for open-access full-texts using citations or abstracts. Plans to index and produce signature keywords for documents in open archives, but also extracts, processes and structures data from the input query for submission to other selected search engines if needed. Go to Paracite
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tardis.eprints.org
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TARDis, building sustainable multidisciplinary GNU EPrints-based institutional archives at Southampton University. Strategies and documentation will address technological, cultural and organisational issues and the development of the archive concept for use in wider applications. Go to TARDis
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http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
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American Scientist E-print Forum, also known as the September98-Forum based on an original article published in the journal of the
title in that month. A discussion list leading detailed scrutiny
of issues on the theme of 'freeing the refereed literature', moderated
by Stevan Harnad. Now has an extensive archive of postings, all indexed
and searchable by Google. Go to American Scientist E-print Forum