Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 336. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:02:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Open Archives Services >X-Authentication-Warning: cogito.ecs.soton.ac.uk: harnad owned process >doing -bs >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 >X-cc: Elib List EJ <lis-elib@mailbase.ac.uk>, > Lib Serials list <serialst@LIST.UVM.EDU> >To: VPIEJ-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU > >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 > > >------------------------------------------------------ >UPS mail list >Mail submissions to ups@vole.lanl.gov >To subscribe or unsubscribe visit http://vole.lanl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ups ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere
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