Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-11-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
of which software is adopted: Developing a Policy http://software.eprints.org/handbook/policy.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html 2. What is the guarantee for upgrading

Re: Eprints, Dspace, or Espace?

2004-10-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Philip Hunter wrote: The focus of each of the OAI-compliant archive-creating softwares is different, as you acknowledge, since some are designed to archive digital objects in general, not just eprints. The functionality of the different softwares differs on this account,

Re: Eprints, Dspace, or Espace?

2004-10-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
/OA_NOA_biologie.gif So, to repeat: it doesn't *matter* which of the archive-creating softwares a university uses: What matters is adopting and implementing a policy that will *fill* its archives, as soon and full as possible, with the university's own journal article output. Eprints, Dspace, or Espace

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-04-22 Thread Stevan Harnad
Publishing and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) PALS Conference 04 - Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsconference04 Institutional repositories-web-based, institution-focused archives of scholarly content-have been receiving

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-04-14 Thread Gale Moore
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. [Moderator's Note: Below is the notice for a joint open-source/open-access conference at University of Toronto. Eprints is again prominent for its absence: only Dspace is featured, but it looks like a worthwhile event anyway. See also

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-04-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
Prior Topic Thread: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html 2 Open Access News Posting by Garrett Eastman: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_04_11_fosblogarchive.html#a108179305530712543 Skeptical eye on Google repository

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Brody
[2 Postings: (1) L. Waaijers; (2) T. Brody] (1) Leo Waaijers (SURF, Netherlands) Stevan Harnad wrote: By the way, the real OAI google is OAIster, and it contains over 3 million pearls from nearly 300 institutions http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ but many are not journal articles

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-03-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
Peter Suber reports in Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_03_14_fosblogarchive.html#a107979070605922309 DSpace Federation now open to all The DSpace Federation http://www.dspace.org/ is now open to everyone. The federation welcomes new members who can contribute

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2004-01-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
This topic thread: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2837.html Peter Suber reported the following in Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-11-09 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Neil Beagrie wrote: the final version of the report by Maggie Jones from the e-journal archiving study is now available in pdf on the jisc website at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ejournalsfinal.pdf This report has useful information for those who are

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Hitchcock
William Nixon says the question most frequently asked of the DAEDALUS project is 'Why are you using both EPrints and DSpace? His admirably thorough and practical Ariadne article DAEDALUS: Initial experiences with EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-09-03 Thread Maurizio Grilli
I'm doing a Mastes Degree in Library and Information Science at the Cologne Technical University (Fachhochschule Koeln). I'm writing a thesis about non-commercial publication models of scholastic writings. Your distinction between pre- and postprint and the definition of eprints as all of them is

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-09-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Maurizio Grilli wrote: I'm doing a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science at the Cologne Technical University (Fachhochschule Koeln). I'm writing a thesis about non-commercial publication models of scholastic writings. I know of no non-commercial models for

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-17 Thread Jan Velterop
Probably of interest to readers of this list: http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030616/03 Jan Velterop BioMed Central Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London W1T 4LB UK T. +44 (0)20 7323 0323 www.biomedcentral.com

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-04 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Bob Parks wrote: sh There is no need to generate PDF. All the Eprint archives require is sh one text version, screen-readable and harvestable by full-text inverters. Well, then it is on US to be sure that the requirements are known, and that they are easy requirements, and

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-04 Thread Jean-Yves Le Meur
I suspect that it would be a good idea to incorporate such a service, or even point to such services. There already exists many such services. We provide one at CERN at http://doc.cern.ch/Convert/. And you will also find from there links to a few other similar servers... Regards, JY CERN

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-04 Thread David Goodman
Steve, you have the numbers right but the implications backwards: If old versions of Word are a problem, then WE (the preachers) ought to remove those impediments to getting it into archives. WE preachers are few, whereas THEY (authors) are many (about 2,000,000 peer-reviewed journal

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
output. Most of this is discussed in the thread: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html This is also the source of the slowness in archive-filling lamented by Michael Day in the article below. The remedy, again, is clearly distinguishing

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-03 Thread David Goodman
* research output. Most of this is discussed in the thread: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2670.html This is also the source of the slowness in archive-filling lamented by Michael Day in the article below. The remedy, again, is clearly

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Goodman wrote: I can testify personally to one of the strong disincentives, though it sounds trivial. I work in an old version of MS Word... The version I use does not automatically make pdfs... ...the pdfs produced this way do not have full functionality... I

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Parks
Stevan Harnad writes: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Goodman wrote: I can testify personally to one of the strong disincentives, though it sounds trivial. I work in an old version of MS Word... The version I use does not automatically make pdfs... ...the pdfs produced this way do not have full

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-04-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
-- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:05:29 +0100 From: NA Jacobs, Learning and Research Technology neil.jac...@bristol.ac.uk To: oai-epri...@fafner.openlib.org Subject: [OAI-eprints] dspace / eprints Does anyone

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-04-14 Thread William Nixon
- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: 14 April 2003 16:53 To: lis-e...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? -- Forwarded message -- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:05:29 +0100 From: NA

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-17 Thread Leslie Carr
[This message contains some long quotes. Please bear with me!] At 10:20 16/02/2003 -0500, Dempsey,Lorcan commented on Les Carr's comment: The Open in OAIS comes from the fact that the standard is open (the archives may be closed), whereas OAI and BOAI assume open distribution of metadata

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-16 Thread Dempsey,Lorcan
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:50:42 + From: Leslie Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org DS How much do either [EPrints or DSpace -- or http://cdsware.cern.ch/] DS conform to the OAIS reference model? SH How much do they *need* to (and why?), in

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-13 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Robert Spindler wrote: This exchange... illustrates the difficult tension archivists feel these days between preservation and access. The scholarly research community has profound opportunities to improve the speed and availability of very current research results through

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread hb...@tours.inra.fr
Don't forget CERN Document Server Software (CDSware) http://cdsware.cern.ch/ At 12:42 11/02/03 +, vous avez écrit: It is rather ironic that a choice between two free self-archiving softwares should lately be holding up self-archiving! Should I use http://www.eprints.org/ or

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread Jean-Yves Le Meur
I want to add to Stevan's remark that the free availability of many different software for self-archiving is intended to boost the OA movement, not to slow it down ! And if CERN has also released last year its document server as GNU (from http://cdsware.cern.ch), it is with the idea that it may

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
Apologies for failing to mention CERN's wonderful self-archiving software http://cdsware.cern.ch/ (and many thanks to Helene Bosc and JY Le Meur for promptly pointing out my error!). Yes, all software for facilitating institutional research self-archiving is eagerly and gratefully welcomed! The

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, D M Sergeant raises some frequently-raised points that I think it is important to confront head-on: The digital library community is very much concerned with preservation, which is both commendable and a traditional responsibility of the library community. But there are two

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread D M Sergeant
SH On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, D M Sergeant raises some frequently-raised points SH that I think it is important to confront head-on: SH SH The digital library community is very much concerned with preservation, SH which is both commendable and a traditional responsibility of the SH library community.

Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace?

2003-02-11 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, D M Sergeant wrote: DS So preservation should focus on tolled publications, and not DS self-publications? Self-archiving systems cannot have a DS preservation component? (1) Self-archiving is self-archiving, not self-publication.