Open Archives and Free Online Scholarship

Krichel, Thomas Warner, Simeon M.

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Abstract:

The potential for free access to scholarly documents on the Internet continues to occupy the minds of all actors in scholarly communication. While there is much agreement that free access is desirable, there is little agreement about how this will come about. We have been actively involved in this transition through our work on two major initiatives in this area. These are arXiv, which covers Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science and RePEc, which covers Economics. We discuss the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the Academic Metadata Format (AMF). These discussions inform our proposal of a conceptual framework for the transition to free online scholarship. We pay particular attention to the rôle that digital libraries play in the transition process.

Creation: 01 Jan 2002
Keywords: H. Information sources, supports, channels

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