Thought this letter is worth forwarding in full:
Dear CogPrints Authors and Users:
One way to help hasten the filling of open-access archives is to offer services that demonstrate to authors and their institutions the increased visibility and impact that self-archiving their published articles brings them, over and above journal publication itself.
There has already been mention in the American Scientist Forum from time to time of Citebase, a citation-ranked search service developed at Southampton, covering some of the largest OAI archives (mainly physics). Citebase is not yet widely known because we wanted to avoid publicizing the service widely during its development while we were still fixing bugs.
We will soon begin raising awareness of Citebase in the wider academic community, but first we are anxious to ensure that it will be useful and usable. So I am hereby inviting those of you with the interest and time to test Citebase now and give us feedback on it. A Web form takes you through a short exercise highlighting its principal features at: http://citebase.eprints.org/survey/
The subject matter is still mainly physics, but the general utility of citation-ranked navigation will be, we hope, transparent.
(Citebase is produced as part of the Open Citation project, funded by the Joint NSF - JISC International Digital Libraries Research Programme.)
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02085/nsf02085.html
Many thanks,
Stevan Harnad
Principal Investigator
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Posted by
Sam at 7/13/2002 07:09:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
