The development of open eprint archives and alternative bibliographical services in information science area. The development of open eprint archives and alternative bibliographic services in information science area. New types of information resources and information services entered in information science area after 2001. So-called eprint archives and modern information services which are the alternative to known traditional commercial bibliographic services in information science area (LISA, ISTA, LLIS et al.), came into existence and successful development. The author describes, compares and evaluates main features of three international eprint archives, i.e. French @rchiveSIC, American DLIST archive and European E-LIS archive. The open archives principles, communication between archives and related information services on protocol of metadata harvesting OAI-PMH basis, and software are characterized. Special attention is devoted to types of archived documents, metadata specifications, used classification schemes, and services provided to authors of eprints ant to end-users too. The fourth part characterizes the interesting information service in information science DoIS which came into existence in 1999. The model of the system, creation of database of common metadata, and provided services are described in details. The perspective of development of this information service is outlined. The record of an article from Czech journal in ReDIF format serves as a challenge to contingent cooperation of first-rate documents publishers in the Czech Republic with the DoIS system.