ProQuest has launched Digital Commons@, software to create OAI-compliant institutional repositories. DC@ is based on the same platform from the Berkeley Electronic Press that powers the University of California's eScholarship Repository. DC@ is not free. While it competes with several open-source packages (to quote the press release), DC@ "will be able to offer key services such as full-text searching, export to XML, full support for OAI, personalized email notification for new updates, and more. These features cannot be matched by any so-called freeware solutions available on the market." DC@ has already been adopted by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of New Brunswick. (Thanks to Gary Price.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/26/2004 11:25:00 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.
