[Excerpts from Free Online Scholarship News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ]
(1) September-October issue of Ariadne is now online.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/
* Andy Powell, 5 step guide to becoming a content provider in the
JISC Information Environment
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/info-environment/
* John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield, Climbing the Scholarly
Publishing Mountain with SHERPA
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/sherpa/
(2) SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ has created an email discussion
list devoted to institutional repositories (aka eprint archives).
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/List.html
(3) In DLib, October 2002:
http://www.dlib.org/
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/hitchcock/10hitchcock.html
Steve Hitchcock, Donna Bergmark*, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge,
Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Carl Lagoze*, Stevan Harnad,
Excerpt from the abstract: The speed of scientific communication ? the
rate of ideas affecting other researchers' ideas ? is increasing
dramatically. The factor driving this is free, unrestricted access
to research papers. Measurements of user activity in mature eprint
archives of research papers such as arXiv have shown, for the first
time, the degree to which such services support an evolving network
of texts commenting on, citing, classifying, abstracting, listing and
revising other texts. The Open Citation project has built tools to
measure this activity, to build new archives, and has been closely
involved with the development of the infrastructure to support open
access on which these new services depend. This is the story of
the project, intertwined with the concurrent emergence of the Open
Archives Initiative (OAI).
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 14:48:25 BST