Dear Colleagues,
You may want to know about the Open Archives Initiative.
This is one of the major programs that will help to revolutionize
research publishing and scholarly communication.
From the OIA mission statement:
What is the mission of the Open Archives Initiative?
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability
standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of
content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to
enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the
availability of scholarly communication. Continued support of this
work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. The
fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing
to support this work are, however, independent of the both the type
of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that
content, and promise to have much broader relevance in opening up
access to a range of digital materials. As a result, the Open
Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort
explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling
this new and broader range of applications. As we gain greater
knowledge of the scope of applicability of the underlying technology
and standards being developed, and begin to understand the structure
and culture of the various adopter communities, we expect that we
will have to make continued evolutionary changes to both the mission
and organization of the Open Archives Initiative.
Visit the OIA Web site at
http://www.openarchives.org/
Also find out about the
2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI):
Gaining independence with e-prints archives and OAI
at CERN. Even though most design research people
will not want to attend, you can learn a great deal
by visiting the Web site.
http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm
You will also want to visit the OIAster search
engine at
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple
Research communities depend on scholarly communication.
Important programs such as this will ultimately give all
scholars regardless of field access to the information we
create.
Best regards,
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
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