On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Mike Gardner wrote: > http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.pl > http://software.eprints.org/archives.php > http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=3Dbrowse > > Wouldn't it be clever if some of these lists could be automatically > generated from one master list (eg the OAI one) ?
It would be clever -- if there were a master list, and all the archives were in it, but there isn't one. OAI http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites.pl in fact contains fewer archives (147) than the Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=3Dbrowse which contains 192. OAIster has still more (277) http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ but many are not for eprints (preprints, postprints, theses) and UIUC http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ has the most (531) but they are not all active, and many are not for eprints. The Institutional Archives Registry is focussed specifically on eprints (preprints, postprints, theses) in universities and research institutions worldwide. The cleverest would of course be if archives didn't have to be registered at all, but were simply harvested. Celestial http://celestial.eprints.org/ does this to a certain extent, but it still has not managed to find all of them. An OAI-compliant-Archive Harvester will certainly come, once there are more archives, with more content. That's the priority right now. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [email protected] Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
