Harvesting open-access data as commercial add-ons

2002-02-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
Scirus.com, the web search engine for scientific information launched by Elsevier Science last April, has now made 180.000 e-prints from arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) available to its users. The e-prints of arXiv.org were harvested using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open

Re: Copyleft article in New Scientist

2002-02-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Chris Zielinski wrote: In preprint archives... the author's original is the canonical version and this is the version to which the integrity right applies. When the postprint is placed on the server, this replaces the preprint as the new integral, canonical version. I'm