The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has
started an institutional archives. For more
information, please contact <raja_at_ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>.
[IISc also has started a programme called SciGate to
assist the faculty and students of the institute.]
Developing countries need such archives as by and
large papers published by DC scientists do not get
noticed.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Peter Suber <peters_at_earlham.edu> wrote: >
Momentum for eprint archiving
>
> Institutional eprint archiving is currently
> undergoing an unprecedented
> surge of acceptance and support. Years of patient
> work by many people
> at many institutions around the world have slowly
> assembled the pieces,
> spread the word, impressed the skeptics, and created
> a critical number
> of interoperable archives. Now archiving has reached
> a tipping point. Its
> rapidly spreading success is a pleasure to behold.
>
> For these purposes, eprint archiving has three
> components: (1) the
> software for building the archives, Eprints for
> large institutional or
> disciplinary archives and Kepler for smaller
> individual "archivelets",
> (2) the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting
> protocol, the
> standard for making the archives interoperable, and
> (3) the decision by
> universities and laboratories to launch archives and
> fill them with the
> research output of their faculty.
>
> * Here are the major developments on these three
> fronts going back only
> six months. If you've been following the progress of
> the FOS movement for
> any number of years, you'll agree that no other
> single idea or technology
> in the movement has enjoyed this density of
> endorsement and adoption in
> a six month period.
>
> February 1, 2002. JISC holds the meeting to launch
> its Focus on Access
> to Institutional Resources Programme (FAIR), a
> program "inspired by the
> vision of the Open Archives Initiative".
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub02/c01_02.html
>
> February 6, 2002. Eight major library organizations
> from eight nations
> launch the International Scholarly Communication
> Alliance, which endorses
> institutional eprint archiving and the Open Archives
> Initiative.
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?A15D6226
>
> February 14, 2002. Eprints launches version 2.0.
> http://software.eprints.org/newfeatures.php
>
> February 14, 2002. The Open Society Institute
> launches the Budapest
> Open Access Initiative, which endorses institutional
> eprint archiving
> and the Open Archives Initiative.
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
>
> February 25, 2002. The University of Michigan
> Libraries Digital Library
> Production Service announces the launch of OAIster,
> which creates an
> OAI-compliant archive out of content previously
> invisible in the deep
> internet.
>
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple
>
> March 2002. The CARL/ABRC (Canadian Association of
> Research Libraries /
> Association des bibliotheques de recherche du
> Canada) issues a report
> endorsing the Open Archives Initiative.
>
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/scholarly/open_archives.PDF
>
> March, 2002. Francois Schiettecatte launches my.OAI,
> a flexible search
> engine for OAI-compliant archives.
> http://www.myoai.com/
>
> March 12, 2002. MIT's OAI-compliant DSpace enters
> its Early Adopter
> Phase
>
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/early-dspace.html
>
> March 26, 2002. The first DELOS EU/NSF Digital
> Libraries All Projects
> Meeting in Rome devotes a forum to the Open Archives
> Initiative.
>
http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/activities/internationalforum/All-Projects/us.html
>
> March 26, 2002. The OCLC Institute hosts the
> satellite videoconference,
> "A New Harvest: Revealing Hidden Resources With the
> Open Archives
> Metadata Harvesting Protocol" with host Lorcan
> Dempsey and featured
> speaker Herbert Van de Sompel.
>
http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/sbs-new_harvest.htm
>
> April 3, 2002. The California Digital Library
> launches the OAI-compliant
> eScholarship Repository.
> http://repositories.cdlib.org/
>
> April 7, 2002. The University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign launches
> its OAI-compliant Cultural Heritage repository.
>
http://library.wustl.edu/~listmgr/imagelib/Apr2002/0002.html
> http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/oai/search
>
> April 11, 2002. Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner and
> John MacColl write
> an important article for _Ariadne_ on their
> experience setting up
> institutional eprint archives at the universities of
> Edinburgh and
> Nottingham.
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/
>
> April 17, 2002. At the Museums and the Web 2002
> conference in Boston,
> Timothy Cole and five co-authors present their
> experience setting up
> the UIUC Cultural Heritage Repository.
>
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/cole/cole.html
>
> May-June, 2002. Colin Steele and Lorena
> Kanellopoulos visit each of the
> Group of Eight universities in Australia to promote
> the creation and
> use of eprint repositories. Queensland set up an
> archive, Monash plans
> to do so, and Melbourne is experimenting; the rest
> of the Group of Eight
> is expected to create archives shortly. The separate
> university archive
> projects have web sites, but not the
> Steele-Kanellopoulos roadshow.
>
> May, 2002. CARL/ABRC launches a project to create
> institutional archives
> at seven Canadian universities and have the
> institutions exchange
> ideas, suggestions and best practices. (Also see the
> November 21-22
> conference, below.) The project itself does not have
> a web page, but
> it does have this page of relevant resources.
>
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/index.htm
>
> May, 2002. RLG (Research Libraries Group) and OCLC
> (Online Computers
> Library Center) release their major report, "Trusted
> Digital Repositories:
> Attributes and Responsibilities".
> http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
>
> May 6, 2002. The Perseus Project launches its Open
> Archives Initiative
> services.
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/oai.ann.html
>
> May 9, 2002. Colin Steele gives a seminar on eprint
> archives at University
> of Adelaide.
>
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pr/publications/inside_adelaide/2002/13may/news/eprint.html
>
> May 21, 2002. ARL (Association of Research
> Libraries) releases its
> final report on its Scholars Portal project, and
> calls for it to be
> OAI-compliant.
> http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/final.html
>
> May 29, 2002. _The Australian_ publishes a major
> article on eprint
> repositories.
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?O25423871
>
> June 14, 2002. The OAI releases version 2.0 of the
> protocol for metadata
> harvesting.
>
http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiv2press020614.html
>
> June 22, 2002. A group chaired by Colin Steele
> completes specifications
> for a national center to promote eprint repositories
> in Australia. The
> specifications were requested by the Australian
> Department of Education,
> Science and Training department. There is no web
> site yet for this
> project.
>
> July 1, 2002. OAIster launches version 1.0 of its
> search interface.
>
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