On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Sumir Meghani wrote: > I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Yahoo! can potentially help in > encouraging open-access. > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040302/25391_1.html
The Open Access (OA) movement is focussed specifically on articles in peer-reviewed journals. Most OA content is OAI-compliant: http://www.openarchives.org/ because it appears in OAI-compliant institutional or central Eprint Archives: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php Two things Yahoo could do to encourage OA are: (1) Put a parameter in the Yahoo search that allows a user to restrict search to only the OAI-compliant Eprint Archives. (As OA content grows, this will make such OAI-specific searches the equivalent of searching only the peer-reviewed journal literature.) (2) Consider ranking this OAI-specific search by citation links instead of just ordinary links, as citebase does: http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search There will be other things to do soon, but these two would already be very useful innovations. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: [email protected] Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
