Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, October 21, 2002

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E-prints: the future of scholarly communication?

Will 2002 be seen as the watershed year when the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) really took off and began to have an impact on global scholarly communication? The OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Eprints.org free software is OAI compliant and enables institutional archiving with appropriate harvesting. Coupled with the expansion of the internet, there is now the ability to distribute information rapidly from author to consumer and thus impact upon traditional forms of publishing via the new collective repositories of research material....

 



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