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 Open Access/Archives Initiatives Open Access/Archives, are new buzzwords in the academic and research community. Their main aim is to facilitate free flow of refereed literature among researchers in different disciplines over the Internet. Now there are few such initiaves have made their presence on the net. Links for some of such initiatives is given below. Some of the links given are indirectly related to such initiatives. Open Access Initiatives:
The ARROW project will identify and test software or solutions to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing. You can find here ACRL's work in the Scholarly Communication arena and related resources. Provides extensive information on scholarly communication. Its aim is to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. DC Principles outlines the commitment of not-for-profit publishers to work in partnership with scholarly communities such as libraries to “ensure that these communities are sustained, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information. In total 48 not-for-profit publishers have agreed to provide the full text of journals worldwide immediately or within months of publication. It was established in 1996 to facilitate open access to the world's scholarly literature and to support the electronic publication of reviewed bioscience journals from countries experiencing difficulties with traditional publication. Key Perspectives provides high quality market research and consultancy services to the scholarly information industry. Provides very good information on Open Access. This is a repository of resources about open access publishing created for ease of reference. Provides a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet. Open Repository is a service provided by BioMed Central for institutions and research organisations. Open Repository offers professional help to institutions to quickly and easily build, launch, maintain, and populate their own repositories. The service has been designed to be flexible and cost-effective. PLOS is a grassroots initiative signed by over 30,000 scientists to encourage publishers to deposit their journals in central archives, like PubMed Central, within six months of publication. Later due to modest response from publishers, PLOS became publisher by launch its first open access journal PLOS Biology. The University of California's scholars and their partners across the academy are reshaping scholarly communication. Understand the challenges, the crises they have produced, and opportunities to address them. SPARC is actively promoting both open access journals and the development of institutional repositories. It has a number of open access partners including: Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Documenta Mthematica, eScholarship, Geometry & Topology, Economics Bulletin, etc. It also brings out lower-cost, directly competitive journals as an alternative for academic disciplines formerly dependent on high-priced journals. A very good guide on how to setup a institutional repository. A resource for librarians and administrators creating open access events for faculty. You may also register your repository here. Provides information about Springer Open Choice: the program that allows authors of journal articles to pay a basic fee to have their journal article made available to the public.
CiteBase Search provides users with the facility for searching across multiple archives, with results ranked according to many criteria, including citation impact. CiteBase is part of an effort to improve online services for the research community, from archive software (eprints.org), reference parsing (OpCit), to Open Archives services (CiteBase). Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has created this repository using OAI protocol. Its focus is on creating a deep, domain-specific portal designed to search metadata describing selected manuscript archives and digitized cultural heritage information resources of USA. DOAR will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world. eprints.org is dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Its software can be used to develop preprint archives at the institute level and made available over the internet for the use of researchers. It uses OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Provides guidance to researchers and their managers who are considering adopting an EPrints server to improve their research impact. eScholarship Repository offers faculty a central location for depositing pre-publication scholarship. The repository, sponsored by the California Digital Library of the University of California, provides persistent access to working papers and makes them easily discoverable. This is an eprints archiving facility for the IISc research community, using the GNU EPrints software. It has been set up by NCSI, Bangalore, India. JAKE is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. JAKE does this by managing metadata about online resources with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to customize for a specific library's holdings. There are currently 195 databases with content lists in jake. my.OAI is a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project. Oaister is a search service for open archives initiatives. As of March 5, 2004 its database includes 3,045,063 records from 268 institutions. Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. This initiative archives article in a journal, magazine or newspaper; a book, a chapter or section in a book; a monograph such as technical report, project report, documentation, manual, working paper or discussion paper; conference or workshop item; a paper, poster, speech, lecture or presentation given at a conference, workshop or other event, or a conference volume; a thesis or dissertation; a published patent and other useful resources on aspects of information and communication technology enabled development in global and local context. This is an introduction to open access (OA) for those who are new to the concept. The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards i.e. Harvesting protocol that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. It is a tutorial on Open Archives Initiative, very useful for beginners to understand all about OAI. The Open Citation Project is a reference linking and citation analysis for open archives in the area of Physics and allied desciplanes. The goal of the project is to provide an open and free environment whereby database content may be quickly and easily published and shared by interested individuals and organizations around the world. The project can be viewed as a global "data exchange" facility. Its main aim is to obtain, preserve and make available research resources for the study of Communism and the Cold War, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the issues of human rights. A very good bepress analysis on crisis in scholarly communication. Eprint FAQ answers all the frequently asked questions (FAQ) about open archvies. Excellent resource on how researchers, librarians, students can promote open access. |
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