In the September 15 issue of Library Journal, Roy Tenant reviews recent work on institutional eprint archives, focusing on the issues on which different archives take different approaches, such as the software for creating the archives, implementation models, economic models for long-term sustainability, regulating the metadata vocabularies, and allowing removal of works from the archives at the author's request. "Although the software and implementation model that an institution chooses to employ is still anyone's guess, the likelihood that universities and research institutions will implement something is increasing. Institutional repositories fill an important void and are likely to remain a part of our information landscape. They provide much better access to a literature than has ever previously been possible and should be a no-brainer for most academic institutions."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/29/2002 01:00:00 PM.
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.
