Abstract: The traditional dissemination channels of research results, via article publishing in scientific journals, are facing a profound metamorphosis driven by the advent of the Internet and broader access to electronic resources. This change is naturally leading away from the traditional publishing paradigm towards an archive-based approach in which institutional libraries organize, manage and disseminate the research output.
Within this context, CERN has been committed since its early beginnings to the open divulgation of scientific results. The dissemination started by free paper distribution of preprints by CERN Library and continued electronically via FTP bulletin boards and the World Wide Web to the current OAI-compliant institutional repository, the CERN Document Server (CDS). By enforcing interoperability with peer repositories, like arXiv and KEK, CDS manages over 500 collections of data, consisting of over 800,000 bibliographic records in the field of particle physics and related areas, covering preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs and more.
In this paper we discuss how the CERN Document Server is becoming a solid base for the collection and propagation of research results in high-energy physics by implementing a range of innovative library management services. In particular, we focus on metadata extraction to create information-rich library objects and groupware and collaborative features that allow users to comment and review records in the repository. Moreover, we explain how the existing document ranking techniques, based on usage and citation statistics, may provide original insights on the impact of selected scholarly output.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/10/2006 02:11:00 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.
