We hope to bring all of CiteSeer in compliance soon; maybe by the end of
the year.
Lee
Stevan Harnad wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Imre Simon wrote:
>
>
>
>>I would like to interest some people (and some Institutions too) in
>>Brazil to start self-archiving their work. It would be helpful to have
>>some statistics about the dimensions of the OAI-compliant archives and
>>at what rate are they growing? What is the proportion of the papers
>>whose full text is also available?
>>
>>Do these statistics exist, and where are they? So far I couldn't find
>>them.
>>
>>In case they do not exist, what would be the most interesting numbers
>>to measure? Don't you think that it would be wise to document the
>>evolution of the dimensions of the OAI-compliant library while
>>everybody is sweating to climb the mountain?
>>
>>
>
>Kedves Imre,
>
>The statistics exist, though they have not been collected
>systematically. You are encouraged to gather the study, and
>report the data (especially growth across time, which shows
>some signs of picking up at last).
>
>For the total annual number of peer reviewed articles (about 2,000,000,
>in about 20,000 peer-reviewed journals worldwide) see, for example:
>http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/
>
>For the proportion of them that institutional libraries can afford to
>pay for toll-access to, see: http://www.arl.org/stats/index.html
>
>For lists (not exhaustive) of OAI Archives, see:
>http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/Register/BrowseSites.pl
>and
>http://software.eprints.org/#sites
>
>Among the OAI harvesters:
>http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html
>you will find, for example,
>http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/viewcolls.html
>which indexes 858,709 records from 110 institutions (updated 3 October
>2002), including 200,000 from the Phsyics ArXiv, which has tracked
>its own growth statistics since 1991:
>http://arxiv.org/show_monthly_submissions
>
>But there are also huge non-OAI (or not-yet-OAI) open-access archives,
>such as citeseer, with 600,000 harvested computer science papers:
>http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/statistics.html
>
>But some time-series data on the growth of all of these archives would
>certainly be very welcome, the objective being to get all of the annual
>2,000,000 in all disciplines worldwide self-archived and open-access as
>soon as possible.
>
>Udvozlettel,
>
>Stevan Harnad
>
>NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
>access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
>the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):
>
> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
> or
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
>
>Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
>
>See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess
>
>the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
>
>the OAI site:
> http://www.openarchives.org
>
>and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
> http://www.eprints.org/
>
>
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