SPARC has announced its partnership with E-print Network, an OA service from Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). From the press release (January 10): 'The [partnership] recognizes the contribution of the E-print Network to expanded availability and use of open-access scientific and technical research on the Internet. The E-print Network reveals a wealth of valuable research mainly in physics but also in chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines. The E-print Network utilizes a unique deep Web search capability that combines full-text searching through PDF documents residing on e-print Web sites with a distributed search across e-print databases. The Web search pulls to the desktop documents that are often hard to find. Users of the E-print Network, which was first launched as PrePRINT Network in January 2000, can perform full-text searches on over 16,000 Web sites and in 39 major databases of e-prints from around the world. All this content - close to 20 million pages of full text - is available to users at no charge. The E-print Network also offers a weekly alert service that provides patrons notification of new documents, as well as links to 2,300 scientific societies. "The E-print Network takes all these isolated islands of information and pulls them into a searchable whole, said Dr. Walter Warnick, director of OSTI. "The result is enhanced search, expanded audience, ease of scientific collaboration, and advancement of science."'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/11/2005 11:06:00 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.
