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Friday, June 03, 2005

Open access to a document in the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive contains a version of a published article of mine (I've retained copyright), entitled "Cancer-related electronic support groups as navigation-aids: Overcoming geographic barriers". A "shadow file" of metadata for this version of the article was prepared with the aid of MyMetaMaker and a copy was self-archived in OpenMED, the new repository for documents relevant to research in the medical and allied sciences. This example illustrates a way in which open access can be provided to a document that's already in the Internet Archive.