Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education

Swan, Alma and Needham, Paul and Probets, Steve and Muir, Adrienne and Oppenheim, Charles and O’Brien, Ann and Hardy, Rachel and Rowland, Fytton and Brown, Sheridan Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education. Learned Publishing, 2005, vol. 18, n. 1, pp. 25-40. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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A study carried out for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee examined models for the provision of access to material in institutional and subject-based archives and in open access journals. Their relative merits were considered, addressing not only technical concerns but also how e-print provision (by authors) can be achieved – an essential factor for an effective e-print delivery service (for users). A ‘harvesting’ model is recommended, where the metadata of articles deposited in distributed archives are harvested, stored and enhanced by a national service. This model has major advantages over the alternatives of a national centralized service or a completely decentralized one. Options for the implementation of a service based on the harvesting model are presented.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: E-prints, open access journals, repositories, Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC, self-archiving, open archives, institutional archives, OAI-PMH, Open Archives Initiative, preprints, postprints, grey literature, ePrints UK, SHERPA, Focus on Access to Institutional Resources, FAIR, DSpace, EPrints, CDSware, Fedora, metadata, preservation of scholarly digital resources, RSS, SRW/SRU
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: Users 181 not found.
Date deposited: 30 Mar 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:00
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6159

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