E-Journal overlays (was: Authors and OA)

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

In response to Brian's message:  If one searches the liblicense-l archives
(from the web site, at: <www.library.yale.edu/~llicense> for the word
"overlay," one gets a return of a posting entitled International "Learned
Journals Seminar" Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:50:03.

Part of the seminar's agenda reads:

	o The journal as an overlay on preprint databases:  Bob Kelly, 
	American Physical Society

	This talk will describe the proposed integration of Physical 
	Review articles, from 1893 onwards, with physics literature in 
	electronic preprint archives ("e-prints") along with databases and 
	electronic books. Recognising the value of e-prints, the APS makes 
	bibliographic information (Title, Author and Abstract) freely 
	available on the WWW for browsing and as a target for linking. 
	This bibliographic information is referred to as the "wrapper," 
	and is the focal point for access to the article and for
	APS article connections to other databases, including e-prints.

Now, it's not quite what Brian proposes, but my recollection is that a few
years back, the validation of articles in eprint sites was indeed a topic
of discussion.  I'm not sure how far the idea has advanced meanwhile or
where or what lists to troll for it, but perhaps others on liblicense-l
can help out.  Ann Okerson/Yale Library

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Brian Simboli wrote:

> A question about below.
> 
> Couldn't there be a credentialling body for a specific subject that would
> give the "seal of approval" for selected articles in institutional
> archives? So an article in an institutional repository could be labelled
> "this article has received the xyz seal of approval", where xyz is say a
> society committee, or an editorial board along traditional lines. The
> institutional repositories could be centralized for long-standing and
> stable consortia, such that faculty at member institutions in that
> consortium could submit articles to the centralized repository. It would
> be up to the author to get the seal of approval from xyz. Once they do so,
> they would submit the article, marked with that approval, to their
> consortial archive, and that would be that in terms of author involvement.
> A and I resources and webpages for the approving body (xyz)  could give
> organized access to all the articles, spread across institutional
> repositories across the land, that have that particular seal of approval.
> 
> Brian Simboli
> Lehigh University
> 
> P.S. apologies if this merely recaps suggestions already broached. If it 
> does (as I suspect), if anyone knows where the suggestion is 
> entertained, please let me know. Am trying to come up to speed on such 
> issues.