On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Don Gilbert wrote: > We are adapting Eprints to archive and serve bioinformatics > software for the biology community. This is still in > development, but open to public use now: > > IUBio Archive of Biology Software and Data > http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/ > http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biosoft (Eprints for bio-soft) > (this redirects for now to http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7780) > > We also are thinking of using Eprints to maintain science > literature for the FlyBase Drosophila genome database > (flybase.net) > > Don Gilbert IUBio archivist > Biology Dept., Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405
Many thanks for the notification. Eprints.org has already listed the IUBio Archive of Biology Software and Data http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7780/ -- as well as IU's Digital Library of the Commons http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ -- at: http://software.eprints.org/#sites The forthcoming flybase Archive at IU is also very good news. Setting up the Archives is the easy part, however! The real challenge is devising an IU policy for filling them! http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling The IU Archives seem to be doing well in that regard too, but I have a question: Are these Archives for IU Research output? Or are they Archives for output for any institution? Both are of course welcome and useful, but it is the former -- a concerted policy for self-archiving the university's own research output -- that is the most urgently needed today. For that policy -- mirrored reciprocally in all universities and research institutions planet-wide -- will be what ushers in the open-access era for us all! http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2549.html 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-fo...@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/