Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
I just received this, because I am the maintainer of the RePEc OAI gateway http://oai.repec.org. With around 80 records, it is is one of the largest OAI-PMH providers by number of records. This rather confusing mail hints that the inclusion of OAIster in FirstSearch. It appears to

Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

2009-09-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
Jonathan Rochkind writes I read this as saying that Why do we have to do OCLC astrology? Why can't they say clearly what they want to do? If OCLC stopped providing the free access points to OAISter that we are used, that would be a problem. Doesn't sound like this is happening.

Re: Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity: key to transitioning to open access

2009-09-18 Thread AlanSingleton
One small point - I don't suppose there's any chance they could change the acronym? COPE is pretty well established as the Committee On Publication Ethics? Alan -Original Message- From: Heather Morrison [mailto:hgmor...@sfu.ca] Sent: 18 September 2009 05:12 To: American Scientist Open