The Open Society Institute has released A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, by Raym Crow. The guide compares five programs, all OAI-compliant and all open-source. It includes a detailed comparison of features that should help an institution decide which package best fits its needs and estimate how much support time it will require for installation and maintenance. OSI offers the guide under the auspices of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and promises to update it as the software evolves. (PS: This is badly needed. Let's hope that many more institutions can now make a decision and start archiving.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2003 10:55:00 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.
