Thomas Krichel in a recent response to Stevan Harnad,
brought up
the disciplinary repositories arXiv, RePEc, and E-LIS.
Thomas
Krichel is the creator of RePEc and involved in E-LIS.
For the benefit of list subscribers who may not be familiar
with
E- LIS, following is a brief explanation:
E-LIS
http://eprints.rclis.org/
E-LIS is the world's largest open access archive for library
and
information studies. E-LIS presently includes over 7,500
fulltext documents, and is among the world's rapidly-growing
open
access initiatives.
E-LIS is a global community, with volunteer editors from
over 40
countries and support for 22 languages. The largest numbers
of
documents are in english or spanish; each document includes
an
english abstract. More than half the documents in E-LIS are
peer- reviewed, and others, such as theses, have gone
through
alternative but stringent quality control processes.
Please visit E-LIS for your LIS searching needs
Authors, please consider depositing your articles in E-LIS.
Advantages of self-archiving in this way, besides the
obvious OA
impact advantage, include:
A permanent URL for your article
Example - A non-US non-UK Perspective on OA
http://epr
ints.rclis.org/archive/00006721/
A URL for your works as author
Example - Heather Morrison's E-LIS
http://
eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Morrison,_Heather.html
Statistics for article views and downloads for your
article.
For more information about E-LIS, please see my article,
E-LIS:
the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies. The
Charleston Advisor Volume 9, Number 1, July 2007 , pp.
56-61(6)
http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com
/content/charleston/
chadv/2007/00000009/00000001/art00019
Disclosure: I am a member of the E-LIS Governance Team.
Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author
alone,
and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC
Electronic
Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticecon
omics.blogspot.com
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