Central site for IR

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.nutr
itionandmetabolism.com  /home )

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Stevan Harnad <harnadecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent by: owner-liblicense-llists.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_pr
actice.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-OApoli
cy.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/arch
ives/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).