Have you ever wanted to try out SWORD, but don’t yet have a repository that supports it? As part of the JISC funded ‘SWORD 2? project, we have now made available a test DSpace repository....
If you’ve not used SWORD before, and want to give it a go, here’s what you’ll need to [take the following 6 steps]....
You’ll have seen from going through this process that a really good client is needed to make SWORD easy to use by all users....Clients need to be user friendly, work in the way that users expect them to, and work in the environments that users want them to. The Microsoft Office SWORD deposit tool is a good first example of this.
Watch out for the launch of a new easier to use and more fully featured SWORD deposit client that also deals with the packaging issue in the next 24 hours whilst I’m at the SPARC digital repositories meeting.
Update (11/18/08). The test repository is DSpace-based. But for those who would like to test drive SWORD on an EPrints-based repository, Les Carr points out that "the standard EPrints public demo repository has been supporting SWORD for some time now...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/17/2008 11:37:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
