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(1) September-October issue of Ariadne is now online. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/ * Andy Powell, 5 step guide to becoming a content provider in the JISC Information Environment http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/info-environment/ * John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield, Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain with SHERPA http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/sherpa/ (2) SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/ has created an email discussion list devoted to institutional repositories (aka eprint archives). https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/List.html (3) In DLib, October 2002: http://www.dlib.org/ Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/hitchcock/10hitchcock.html Steve Hitchcock, Donna Bergmark*, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Carl Lagoze*, Stevan Harnad, Excerpt from the abstract: The speed of scientific communication ? the rate of ideas affecting other researchers' ideas ? is increasing dramatically. The factor driving this is free, unrestricted access to research papers. Measurements of user activity in mature eprint archives of research papers such as arXiv have shown, for the first time, the degree to which such services support an evolving network of texts commenting on, citing, classifying, abstracting, listing and revising other texts. The Open Citation project has built tools to measure this activity, to build new archives, and has been closely involved with the development of the infrastructure to support open access on which these new services depend. This is the story of the project, intertwined with the concurrent emergence of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).