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E-Prints

The OSI EPrints Handbook covers the following areas:

A Guide to Starting Self-Archiving for researchers who understand the issues and are ready to use the software.
A Guide to Self-Archiving and Open Access explaining the issues behind open access, and the need for self-archiving and e-print software.
Managing an EPrints Service for research administrators, heads of academic schools or service departments.
Installing an EPrints Server for system administrators.

Seen on eprintblog.

- Oclc Name Authority Service
OCLC has a name authority service using the LC NAF. They have recently improved the matching algorithm.We developed this service so that remotely located systems -- institutional repository software, for example (DSpace, ePrints UK, CONTENTdm, eprints.org,...

- Scholarly Communication
Handouts, videos and PowerPoint slides from the CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the benefits of OAI (OAI3) are available. Some of the presentations are:OAI and OAI-PMH for absolute beginners -- a non-technical...

- Guide To Institutional Repository Software
The Guide to Institutional Repository Software v 3.0 has been released by the Budapest Open Access Initiative.Universities and research centers throughout the world are actively planning and implementing institutional repositories. This activity entails...

- Oai
The Case for OAI in the Age of Google discuesses why e-print serves are not used more often. The recent posting here about E-LIS and dLIST, digital repositories for library science, that combined have only about 1000 items is a very good example.Why don't...

- Eprints
Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom by Michael Day discusses the UK project to establish an eprint server by harvesting metadata from institutional and subject-based e-prints archives using the Open Archive Initiative...

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