The first of a remarkable new set of Open Archive Services that will be provided on top of the Open Archives themselves has just been registered: http://arc.cs.odu.edu/
This search engine, ARC, will give you a taste of what it will be like to be able to search the entire refereed research literature, archived across a set of interoperable Eprint Archives distributed around the world spanning all disciplines. So far, the most heavily archived disciplines are Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, with the Cognitive Sciences (Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, Linguistics, Neuroscience) still only on the lightweight end, but with the forthcoming operational release of the eprints.org self-archiving sofware, the share of all disciplines and papers should begin to grow substantially: http://www.eprints.org Try the ARC searcher, and imagine what it would be like if YOUR papers were already in one of those archives, and could be found and read by everyone, everywhere, for free, and forever. (And then get your institution to install the [free] eprint-archive-creating software -- and then go ahead and self-archive all your papers....) Stevan Harnad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:54:08 -0400 From: herbert van de sompel <[email protected]> To: UPS List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Open Archives Initiative hi, The first Santa Fe compliant service provider has been registered at http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm . It is a cross e-print search engine created at Old Dominion University. Some may recognize the interface [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/] since it is very similar to the one used in the UPS prototype. Behind the scenes, however, things have changed quite fundamentally. Congratulations. herbert van de sompel -- Herbert Van de Sompel Visiting Assistant Professor Cornell University -- Computer Science tel + 1 - 607 - 255 - 3085 fax + 1 - 607 - 255 - 4428 digital life in libraries used to be primitive ------------------------------------------------------ UPS mail list Mail submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe visit http://vole.lanl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ups
