Central site for IR

[Richard Feinman <RFeinman@downstate.edu>]

Wouldn't it be good to have a central site for IR supported by grants or
all the institutions that wanted to use it as a repository?

Richard D. Feinman, Co-editor-in-chief
Nutrition & Metabolism ( http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com  /home )

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Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent by: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
07/27/06 07:44 PM
Subject EPrints: "World's Best Practice"

      ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

In case there is even the slightest of doubts about which
software I recommend for creating and maintaining an Open Access
Institutional Repository (OA IR), it is, of course, GNU EPrints:

      http://www.eprints.org/

EPrints is free: the world's first, most widely used, and *by
far* the most functional of all the available OA IR softwares. It
is created for and specifically focussed on OA functionality,
with the most advanced features, being designed and added
continuously by the EPrints developmental team, as it keeps up
with (and indeed often leads) the accelerating development and
evolving needs of the worldwide OA movement.

Enough said. See the testimonials (and add your own!) at:

      http://www.eprints.org/news/features/worlds_best_practice.php

To find out exactly what the focus is on and for, see:

      http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

Now, assuming you already have an EPrints (or other) OA IR, you can go
back to lobbying for OA self-archiving mandates for your institution
and research funder, the current number-one priority!

      Generic Rationale and Model
      for University Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate
      http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html

      A National Open Access Policy
      http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/weaker-OApolicy.htm

But don't forget to register your IR in ROAR (Registry of Open Access
Repositories):

      http://archives.eprints.org/

and to register your OA IR policy in ROARMAP:

      http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

Your arch archivangelist,

Stevan Harnad
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html


PS Ceterum Censeo: *All* OA texts and their metadata should be
directly deposited locally, in the author's own OA IR. That is
the primary content-provider. If it is desired to also include
them in one or more central repositories such as PubMed Central
or Arxiv, they can and should be *harvested* from the local OA
IR. EPrints is implementing automatizable import/export features
for doing just that: Exporting to central repositories, as well
as importing from them (e.g., papers already deposited centrally
prior to the creation of the local IR).