Query About Open-Access Journal Start-Ups

2003-12-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
I am posting this response to an (anonymized) query by a graduate student about starting up a new open-access journal because it raises questions that may be of more general interest to this Forum. My name is [identity deleted], I am a graduate student in [] at []. My professor [], recommended

Serials: papers on OAI applications

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Hitchcock
A collection of papers describing applications of the Open Archives Initiative appear in the latest issue of Serials (Volume 16 Number 3, November 2003) http://masetto.ingentaselect.com/vl=4557818/cl=66/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/uksg/09530460/v16n3/contp1-1.htm The articles are listed below with urls for

Re: Query About Open-Access Journal Start-Ups

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Eisen
My name is [identity deleted], I am a graduate student in [] at []. My professor [], recommended you when I discussed writing an essay on the internet and the monopoloy of the journals. I think he was amused when I said I wanted to take a marxist approach... Not so sure about that

Dublin Core Checker for OAI Archives

2003-12-19 Thread Eberhard R. Hilf
Dear Colleagues, To synchronize the OAi efforts at various places it may be useful to make use of the Dublin-Core-checker of Heinrich Stamerjohanns http://harvest.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/dc/index.html The DC-Checker does not focus on formal XML correctness of OAI-Records (use the