On Tue, 29 May 2001, I posted message to this Forum which included this criticism of the Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS):
[jt]>Another flaw [is that the CPS isn't] on the list of "Open Archives" [jt]>(at: http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/Register/BrowseSites.pl). [jt]>So, the CPS archive doesn't meet an "inter-operability" criterion. I've just received a copy of Volume 4, Issue 33 of the ChemWeb.com News Bulletin (distributed to subscribers via email on August 15, 2001). It's a special issue in recognition of the establishment of the CPS, a year ago (on August 21, 2000 - the CPS is at: http://preprint.chemweb.com). An excerpt from this newsletter: > The CPS was developed by closely following the Los Alamos archives > (http://arxiv.org), which cover physics and related disciplines. In > setting up the service ChemWeb.com has constantly referred to the Open > Archive Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org) for e-print archives. In this excerpt, it's emphasized that the design of the CPS server has been guided by the Open Archives Initiative. But, it seems to me that a crucial element, inter-operability of OAI-compliant eprint archives, probably still isn't being met by the CPS server. I've just visited the current list of registered OAI-conforming repositories (see: http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/Register/BrowseSites.pl). The CPS isn't listed. So, either it's registered but doesn't appear yet on the list, it isn't registered, or it isn't fully OAI-conforming. I suspect that it isn't fully OAI-conforming. Have I missed something? Jim Till University of Toronto
