dear Arthur,
the solution is that the publishers open their archive at least for a
subset of their metadata of their published documents.
The best vehicle is that the publisher registers as Open Archive Data
provider.
The refund is that their journal articles are better found, and thus more
cited and more bought and ordered.
If the publisher does not want to be OAi data provider itself for now,
it could export these metadata subset to other OAi service providers.
This latter way has the advantage for the publisher, that the publisher
can choose which of the registered service providers to choose and
individually decide on what stack of metadata.
As an example: IoPP (Inst. of Physics Publishing) of the IoP Physical
Society of UK had decided that way. We still hope that APS will join.
For the realization, see
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/physdoc.html
Search goes across ArXiv, all IoPP journals, and PhysDoc.
Any misuse as you imagined, would thus immediately detected by the
searcher.
Finally, do not worry, when hiring staff, we referees do not just count
papers from publication lists, but check and read and know the scene and
persons...
Yours Ebs
.................................................
Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.i.R.;
CEO Institute for Science Networking
an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg
Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg
ISN:
http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/
my homepage:
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/~hilf
hilf_at_physnet.uni-oldenburg.de tel/Fax: 0049-441-798-2884/5851
PhysNet for the EPS:
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet
Received on Mon Mar 04 2002 - 14:43:21 GMT