It is my pleasure to announce that Caltech just registered two new repositories with the Open Archives Initiative.
CAV 2001 is the conference proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation. CSTR is a repository of technical reports of the Caltech Computer Science option. Both repositories can be found at http://library.caltech.edu/digital Beyond these two, we are also working on several other repositories: for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, for the Control and Dynamical Systems option, for the Environmental Engineering option, etc. We are well under way to deposit our first Electronic Thesis. This has been a significant teamwork: Caltech reference librarians are actively recruiting faculty into this new publishing venture. Once faculty sign on, librarians handle most document-management and metadata issues. For the repositories we just registered, this work fell primarily on Kim Douglas (Director of the Sherman Fairchild Library and Head of Technical Information Services) and Hema Ramachandran (Reference Librarian). However, all librarians are getting involved as they are signing up new options. Kim worked with Adam Cochran (Caltech's Intellectual Property Counsel) on copyright issues. Authors who deposit material in our repositories retain copyright, but grant a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to Caltech. (See http://cav2001.library.caltech.edu/permission.html for details.) Of course, Caltech makes this material available for free. (See http://cav2001.library.caltech.edu/copyright.html for details.) The technical aspects are taken care of by the Library Information Technology group members Ed Sponsler and Betsy Coles. Ed focuses on Eprints and Betsy on ETDs. Both work closely together, and both support our librarians as they learn to conquer all the document-management issues related to these projects. All of the above would not have been possible without the Eprints software. Without Eprints, we would still be in the software-development stage. Instead, we could focus on the development of a service. We owe a great debt to Stevan Harnad and his group for their contribution to the scholarly community. --Eric F. Van de Velde. Director of Library Information Technology California Institute of Technology
