Filippo A. Salustri wrote:
> I would like to see a digital library, dspace or something, into which
> we'd deposit our papers - or at least the abstracts and citations if
> copyrights prevent otherwise - and then 'tag' the paper with keywords.
This exists now. If your university has a dspace or eprints
institutional repository then anything you place into is is
automatically searchable by any BOAI compliant search engine (actually
almost everybody uses Google Scholar for this). If your university does
not have such a repository tell it that it is hampering your career and
disadvantaging academics who do not work in large universities with huge
numbers of journal subscriptions*. Open access is the only way you can
ensure that most people have access to your work.
AND the copyright problems are not as bad as most people imagine. If you
want to archive something that is published in a journal you can check
the publishers policy on archiving at the SHERPA website which maintains
up to date information and tells you than the great majority of
publishers allow some form of archiving. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Best wishes
Chris
*We are a big university with a lot of subscriptions to different
publishers bundled online journals but I still find that about half of
the journal articles that I find in web searches - ones that I really
want to read - are not available to me.
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