Barry Mahon writes
> The actual technical aspects of the database loading may be
> irrelevant but there is an important corollorary - secondary
> information services (abstracting and indexing) play an increasingly
> important role as the primary literature becomes more and more
> diffused in the location of its primary publication. These are
> certainly not free - it costs a lot of money to collect and collate
> the material, even though a number of the organisations doing this
> work are non-profit, such as Chemical Abstracts, Inspec, etc.
There are free abstract and indexing services around, see
CiteSeer,
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs, DBLP, see
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/, for computer
science and RePEc,
http://repec.org, for economics.
I am the principal founder of RePEc and I am in the process of
implementing the ideas behind this collection for Computing
and Library and Information Science, see
http://rclis.org. Not
much there yet, though, because such systems take a long
time to be produce.
> BTW, ICSTI will be holding a meeting in January 2004 on the topic
> of the 'new economic models'
The trick is to get the community involed, in that way you
minimize cost on a central collection. The RePEc collection
illustrates this masterfully.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel_at_openlib.org
visiting CO PAH, Novosibirsk
http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
Received on Sat Aug 16 2003 - 07:53:05 BST