14.0336 new on WWW: Open Archives Services

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 336.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:02:43 +0100
             From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
             Subject: Open Archives Services
    
    
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     >Date:         Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:40:06 +0100
     >Reply-To: Stevan Harnad <harnad@COGLIT.ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
     >>From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@COGLIT.ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
     >>X-To:         september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org
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     >
     >The first of a remarkable new set of Open Archive Services that will
     >be provided on top of the Open Archives themselves has just been
     >registered: http://arc.cs.odu.edu/
     >
     >This search engine, ARC, will give you a taste of what it will be like
     >to be able to search the entire refereed research literature, archived
     >across a set of interoperable Eprint Archives distributed around the
     >world spanning all disciplines.
     >
     >So far, the most heavily archived disciplines are Physics, Mathematics,
     >and Computer Science, with the Cognitive Sciences (Psychology,
     >Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, Linguistics, Neuroscience) still only
     >on the lightweight end, but with the forthcoming operational release of
     >the eprints.org self-archiving sofware, the share of all disciplines
     >and papers should begin to grow substantially: http://www.eprints.org
     >
     >Try the ARC searcher, and imagine what it would be like if YOUR papers
     >were already in one of those archives, and could be found and read by
     >everyone, everywhere, for free, and forever.
     >
     >(And then get your institution to install the [free]
     >eprint-archive-creating software -- and then go ahead and self-archive
     >all your papers....)
     >
     >Stevan Harnad
     >
     >---------- Forwarded message ----------
     >Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:54:08 -0400
     >From: herbert van de sompel <herbertv@CS.Cornell.EDU>
     >To: UPS List <ups@vole.lanl.gov>
     >Subject: [OAI] a service provider
     >
     >hi,
     >
     >The first Santa Fe compliant service provider has been registered at
     >http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm .
     >
     >It is a cross e-print search engine created at Old Dominion University.
     >Some may recognize the interface [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/] since it is
     >very similar to the one used in the UPS prototype.  Behind the scenes,
     >however, things have changed quite fundamentally.
     >
     >Congratulations.
     >
     >herbert van de sompel
     >
     >--
     >Herbert Van de Sompel
     >Visiting Assistant Professor
     >Cornell University -- Computer Science
     >tel + 1 - 607 - 255 - 3085
     >fax + 1 - 607 - 255 - 4428
     >digital life in libraries used to be primitive
     >
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