Thomas Krichel and Ivan Kurmanov have released the Stage Three Plan of the Academic Contributor Information System (ACIS). Excerpt: 'Our experience with RAS [RePEc Author Service] shows that academics are eager to share their personal and research data. Many users write to us asking about how to add new documents to their research profiles....One approach is to build a document submission facility into ACIS on our own. It is a costly task, if one wants to do it well. We don't have resources for it. Another approach is to integrate an existing open-source software such as EPrints...for such a facility. To integrate two different pieces of software into a single application requires more time and effort than we can spend. Within reasonable time and with reasonable effort we can make ACIS cooperate with external submission services. A well-organized cooperation can simplify user experience and provides for better quality of collected metadata. Imagine such a scenario. A user submits a document to a document archive. She enters the names of the document authors among other document information. The document archive searches for personal records, whose names or name variations match to what the submitting user entered. If it finds any personal records which look appropriate, the service might suggest it to the user, so that she can identify the author herself. When the submission is ready, the archive notifies an ACIS installation about it. ACIS processes new document data and the document is automatically added to the personal profiles of the identified authors. ACIS sends them email, notifying about this addition. In ACIS stage three we aim at such a user experience.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/03/2005 09:41:00 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.
