Thomson Scientific's Web Citation Index (still with no web site of its own) will crawl the OA repositories built with ProQuest's Digital Commons archiving software. From yesterday's press release:
Today, two key information solutions providers involved in enabling the open-access movement announced an initiative that will provide greater access to institutionally created research. The Thomson Scientific Web Citation Index will index ProQuest’s Digital Commons open access material. This new initiative means Digital Commons-hosted work will be more broadly discoverable....“We are very pleased to be working with ProQuest, given the number of scholarly institutions that have chosen Digital Commons since its introduction last year [said James Pringle, Vice President of Development, Thomson Scientific]. The Web Citation Index already includes repositories based on a variety of platforms. Adding significant content from ProQuest’s service will make it even easier for users around the world to discover pathways to material that includes preprints, post-prints, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, and other gray literature.”...Web Citation Index is the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories. Web Citation Index transcends the capabilities of traditional Web search engines, providing users with a robust citation-based discovery vehicle for content hosted on institutional repositories. Thomson Scientific content editors select only those Web repositories deemed scholarly. This ensures Web Citation Index delivers only the highest-quality, most-relevant content.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2006 11:27:00 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.
