Fwd: SPARC e-news/December-January 2003

[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

If you're not subscribed to the SPARC list, I would highly recommend it
as being relevant to our work. You can get subscription information
from the SPARC Web site. In any case, this particular notice is directly
relevant to our work with the SPARC IR Guidelines. Please review prior
to our first meeting.

Carol

>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:16:49 +0900
>From: Alison Buckholtz <alison@arl.org>
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>*SPARC e-news*
>December 2002-January 2003
> From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
>http://www.arl.org/sparc, http://www.sparceurope.org
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>
>SPARC has created an online discussion list where individuals interested 
>in institutional repositories can ask questions, share best practices and 
>debate relevant issues.  To sign up, go to
>https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/.
>
>_____________________________________________
>In this issue:
>
>1. SPARC IR Guide Now Available Online
>2. Partner News
>3. Industry Roundup
>4. Focus on SPARC Europe
>5. AAP's Public Relations "Image" Campaign
>6. SPARC Consulting Group
>7. Recent books and articles of interest
>8. Article: CARL Institutional Repository Pilot Project
>__________________________________________
>
>1. SPARC IR Guide Now Available Online
>
>SPARC has produced and is distributing at no charge the new "SPARC 
>Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide," a manual detailing 
>the issues that institutions and consortia need to address in implementing 
>an institutional repository.  The Web-based publication is available 
>immediately at http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html and may be 
>printed out and distributed freely.
>
>The "SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide" 
>complements and expands on the SPARC's recent position paper, "The Case 
>for Institutional Repositories" (available at 
>http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html), which addressed the strategic 
>rationale for institutional repositories.  The Guide provides practical 
>background information that will help institutions define and establish 
>digital collections that preserve the intellectual output of a university 
>or group of universities.
>The new Guide provides an introduction to issues in particular 
>institutional contexts and directs readers to resources that provide 
>additional details.  The Guide includes sections on the following: 
>Securing Administration Support; Securing Faculty Participation; 
>Addressing Faculty Objections; Impact of Discipline-specific Practices; 
>Benefits and Challenges to Librarians; Repository Management and Policy 
>Issues; Technical and System Issues; and other topics of interest. The 
>Guide's audience includes librarians, faculty, administrators, information 
>technology and support staff, and others interested in the practical 
>implications of an institutional repository.
>
>The SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide will be an 
>evolving document that SPARC will update and enhance as useful information 
>emerges from the institutional repository projects that are 
>underway.  Comments and suggestions on the Guide are welcomed, and can be 
>directed to sparc@arl.org.  SPARC lists further resources on institutional 
>repositories at http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=m0.
>
>2. Partner News
>
>Following is a selected list of SPARC publishing partners. For a complete 
>list of SPARC partners, please see:
>http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=c0. SPARC members are 
>encouraged to apply their purchase commitment toward support of these 
>outstanding publications. To find out more about your purchase commitment, 
>please see: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=b3.
>
>2a. SPARC Alternatives
>
>CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
>http://pubs.acs.org/crystal
>
>ACS Publications launched the ACS Paragon System for contributing authors 
>to _Crystal Growth & Design_ on December 10, 2002. The ACS Paragon System 
>is a system for electronic submission and peer review of manuscripts.  It 
>provides a user-friendly, streamlined approach to submitting research, the 
>subsequent process of peer review and ultimately acceptance, and it saves 
>authors time while simplifying the manuscript submission process.  The ACS 
>Paragon System allows important research to be published as quickly as 
>possible.
>
>ORGANIC LETTERS
>http://pubs.acs.org/orglett
>
>As _Organic Letters_ begins its fifth volume of bi-weekly publication, 
>editor Amos B. Smith III offers an editorial describing the challenges
>facing the SPARC alternative journal and recognizing its impact, speed, 
>and success.  As Dr. Smith writes, "_Organic Letters_ is now one of the 
>highest impact primary journals in organic chemistryŠExciting results in 
>all areas of organic chemistry, including bioorganic and medicinal 
>chemistry, physical and theoretical organic chemistry, natural products 
>isolation and synthesis, new synthetic methods, and organometallic and 
>materials chemistry can be found in each new issue. Moreover, our impact 
>factor in only the second year of rating has increased by nearly 10%. 
>Equally impressive, our growth rate (number of manuscripts received) for 
>the past two years has also increased nearly 10% per year. Volume 4 will 
>contain 1189 Letters in 4800 pages from 32 countries."
>
>2b. SPARC Scientific Communities
>
>eScholarship (California Digital Library [CDL])
>http://escholarship.cdlib.org
>
>More than 500 University of California Press books are available online 
>free of charge through an ongoing partnership between UC Press and the 
>California Digital Library. The University of California Press 
>eScholarship Editions can be searched and browsed at 
>http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress. Over 300 of the University of 
>California Press eScholarship Editions are available to the public. The 
>other titles are currently only available to UC faculty, students and 
>staff. Readers outside the UC system may view citations, abstracts and 
>tables of contents, but not the full texts.
>
>The CDL's eScholarship program, which supports experiments in scholarly 
>communications, converted the books into XML (Extensible Markup Language) 
>to support an interactive user interface. An unlimited number of readers 
>may access a single title at one time, so books do not have to be "checked 
>out" to a single user.
>
>PROJECT EUCLID
>http://projecteuclid.org/
>
>Cornell University Libraries' Project Euclid has announced a set of 
>independent mathematics and statistics journals that it will market at a 
>combined price for 2003. Project Euclid is providing this set free of 
>charge for a trial period set through the end of February 2003. Current 
>Project Euclid journals include: _Annals of Mathematics_, _The Annals of 
>Statistics_ and _Journal of Applied Mathematics_, among others. SPARC 
>members are encouraged to sign up today for Project Euclid to assure this 
>important, large-scale project gets a fast start.
>
>2c. SPARC Leading Edge
>
>BIOMED CENTRAL
>http://www.BioMedCentral.com
>
>BioMed Central's new Advocacy Kit 
>http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/advocacy provides supporters and 
>advocates of open access with tools to help spread the word about BioMed 
>Central and open-access publishing in general. The kit consists of 
>resources such as presentations, a newsletter article, and posters which 
>can be used to help educate faculty and administrators about the 
>importance of creating change in scholarly communication by publishing in 
>open access research journals.
>
>The Advocacy Kit focuses on providing information and organizing 
>discussions as the major advocacy strategies.
>
>In addition, BioMed Central and the French Institut de l'Information 
>Scientifique et Technique (INIST) of the CNRS have agreed to hosting and 
>archiving of the BioMed output on the INIST server. The agreement will 
>give the French scientific community open access to all 60 BMC journals 
>and free publishing privileges.
>
>
>3. Industry Roundup
>
>The Public Library of Science (PLoS), the grass-roots movement of life 
>scientists, has received funding for development of its own open-access 
>journals. Supported by a $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore 
>Foundation, PLoS officials will begin two peer-reviewed online journals: 
>_PLOS Biology_ and _PLOS Medicine_. No initial publication date has been 
>announced. The new journals will retain peer review and other features of 
>traditional academic journals, but will make all published works 
>immediately freely available online, with no restrictions on subsequent 
>redistribution or use. Print journals will also be made available for 
>libraries or individuals at the cost of printing and shipping. As with 
>fellow nonprofit publisher BioMed Central, the cost of publishing the 
>journals will be supported by author fees. The PLoS initiative is led by 
>leading scientists including Harold E. Varmus, president of the 
>Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and former director of the National 
>Institutes of Health.
>
>Source: LJ Academic Newswire
>
>***
>DSpace Federation Collaboration
>
>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries have announced 
>initial development of the DSpace” Federation with six major research 
>universities: Columbia University, Cornell University, Ohio State 
>University, and the Universities of Rochester, Toronto, and Washington. 
>DSpace, a digital repository for intellectual output, was launched 
>worldwide November 4, 2002 as an open source system, the result of a 
>two-year collaboration between the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard 
>Laboratories, HP's strategic research facility. The system is now in full 
>production at MIT, and holds approximately one thousand items from five 
>early-adopter communities.
>
>MIT is now seeking to extend the scope of DSpace by offering it to other 
>research-intensive institutions as an open-source system, and to build a 
>Federation among these institutions. By making the system freely available 
>as open-source software, DSpace will enable even small colleges to run 
>repositories with existing resources. This project will explore the 
>adaptability of DSpace to institutions beyond MIT, develop documentation 
>for future Federators, and investigate new types of services that can be 
>built on federated collections held in DSpace repositories at different 
>institutions. MIT believes that by developing a Federation of institutions 
>that employ the same software and protocols, the sustainability and 
>potential for continued development of the system are enhanced.
>
>The one-year project is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 
>which has awarded a $300,000 grant to MIT to work with the six 
>institutions on the further development of the DSpace Federation.
>
>***
>New European Move for Elsevier Science
>
>Elsevier Science has announced its intention to acquire Verlagsgruppe 
>Georg von Holtzbrinck's German STM business.  The acquisition, subject to 
>German and Austrian competition authorities agreement, will strengthen 
>Elsevier's STM presence in Germany.
>
>***
>
>Science.Gov Gateway Connects Public to Government Research
>
>Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from ten major 
>U.S. government science agencies have collaborated to create science.gov 
>(http://www.science.gov), a gateway to science and technology research 
>from federal government organizations. Users can
>find more than 1000 government information resources about science, 
>including technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal web 
>sites, and fact sheets. The information is free of charge, and no 
>registration is required. The participating agencies are the Departments 
>of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human 
>Services, and Interior; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National 
>Aeronautics and Space Administration; and the National Science 
>Foundation.  Science.gov is hosted by the Department of Energy (which 
>recently closed down its PubScience database).
>
>***
>
>RoMEO Listing of Copyright Agreements Now Available
>
>The UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project's first listing of academic journal 
>copyright agreements is now available at
>http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html. The 
>list provides information about 70 journal publishers' self-archiving policies.
>
>***
>
>Columbia University Press To Publish JEP
>
>The _Journal of Electronic Publishing_ (JEP) and Columbia University Press 
>are partnering to publish JEP. With the release of the Spring 2003 issue, 
>JEP will re-launch under the Columbia University Press banner with a new 
>design, augmented content, enhanced search capabilities, and a new address 
>on the Columbia University Press Web site. Publication of JEP will be on a 
>brief hiatus until the spring re-launch.
>
>The University of Michigan Press, JEP's former publisher, and Columbia 
>University Press have agreed that all archives of the journal will be 
>moved to Columbia, and the old URL addresses will be automatically 
>redirected to JEP's new home.  Judith Axler Turner and Eve Trager, who 
>both joined the journal in 1997, will continue in their respective 
>positions of editor and managing editor. JEP is available by free subscription.
>
>***
>
>E-LIS: An Open Archive for Library and Information Science
>
>E-LIS, an international service for the deposit of documents in the 
>Library and Information Science (LIS) domain, launched in January as the 
>first international e-server in this area. E-LIS is a branch of the RCLIS 
>(Research in Computing, Library and  Information Science) 
>project  <http://rclis.org> and the DoIS  (Documents in Information 
>Science) server http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/. E-LIS is a free-access 
>international archive based on the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) standards 
>and protocols <http://www.openarchives.org/>.
>
>E-LIS deploys the GNU Eprints (v. 2.1.1.) software and is completely
>built out of free software http://www.eprints.org/. The site is freely 
>accessible. For instructions, please see http://eprints.rclis.org/help/. 
>It is possible to deposit reserved/restricted access documents, such as 
>documents whose author rights were ceded to the publisher.
>
>***
>
>COUNTER Code of Practice Released
>
>COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) is a
>multi-agency project developing a single, internationally accepted, 
>extendible Code of Practice that will allow the usage of online 
>information products and services to be measured more consistently 
>(http://www.projectCounter.org).
>
>The Code of Practice specifies in detail the requirements that vendors
>must meet to have their online usage reports designated COUNTER-compliant. 
>There will be only one valid version of the Code of Practice at any given 
>time, but different levels of compliance will be possible. Release 1 will 
>focus on journals and databases. The Code of Practice will be 
>systematically extended to cover other categories of publications, such as 
>e-books. COUNTER is actively supported by the international community of 
>librarians and publishers, and by their professional organizations.
>
>***
>
>Public Knowledge Project Releases Open Journal Systems
>
>The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia has
>recently released the Open Journal Systems (OJS). OJS is an online
>journal management and publishing system. OJS assists with every stage
>of the publishing process for refereed journals including:
>
>*       Online Submission of Articles, Reviews, and other Items
>*       Online Management for Each Stage of Publishing
>*       Comprehensive Indexing of Published Articles
>*       Research Support Tool for Each Article Published
>*       Email Notification and Commentary for Readers
>
>OJS is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public
>License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
>
>4. Focus on SPARC Europe
>by David Prosser, SPARC Europe Director <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>
>
>SPARC Europe Contributes to the Debate Surrounding Research Assessment
>
>One of the challenges facing publishers wishing to launch new journals 
>with scholar-friendly policies (e.g. open access) is the fact that new 
>journals do not have the reputation of well-established titles.  Many 
>scholars feel compelled to publish in high-impact journals to secure their 
>next promotion or grant.
>
>Recently the four UK funding bodies launched a review of the research 
>assessment exercise (RAE - see http://www.ra-review.ac.uk/).  For publicly 
>funded researchers in UK universities the RAE is vitally important as a 
>good score will bring increased funding.  A perception has grown within 
>the UK academic community that to achieve a good score researchers must 
>publish in high-impact journals.
>SPARC Europe's submission to the review pointed out that whether this 
>perception is true or false, the result has been to distort the research 
>publication process, creating a self-perpetuating cycle whereby 
>competition to publish in existing well-known journals leads to even more 
>attention being paid to those journals at the expense of newer journals of 
>equal quality. Although in theory it is clear that publication in 
>well-known journals does not automatically equate to high-quality 
>research, that has been the assumption in practice.
>
>SPARC Europe suggested that peer-review should be used in the RAE to judge 
>the quality of research, not the journal title.  This will ensure that 
>researchers are not penalized for publishing in new journals, which may be 
>either significantly less expensive than the existing titles or even free 
>to readers (through open access).  In addition, SPARC Europe urged that 
>the RAE do not overlook the importance of online-only peer-reviewed 
>journals or the increasing use of institutional repositories.  Scholars 
>are finding new ways to communicate their research and the REA should take 
>these into account.
>
>Scholarly publishing is not just about the communication of new 
>results.  We should be aware that the pressures on researchers to publish 
>through traditional routes may slow the transition to fairer and more 
>cost-effective publishing models.  These pressures work on institutional, 
>national, and international levels and SPARC and SPARC Europe will 
>continue to advocate for researchers to be judge for the quality of their 
>work, not where they publish.
>
>
>5. AAP's Library Outreach Campaign
>
>As reported in the October-November 2002 issue of SPARC e-news, the 
>Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing 
>Division has launched a public relations campaign focused on the "image 
>concerns of the traditional science publishing industry." According to the 
>Fall 2002 issue of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Bulletin, the 
>targeted audience for the campaign includes librarians, students, 
>researchers, authors and editors in the hard and social sciences.   The 
>PSP Bulletin lists a series of key points and detailed messages for PSP 
>executives to convey as part of the image campaign, including:
>
>"*Key External Audiences: Publishers could use their own channels to 
>target such groups, for example, placing informational ads in their 
>publications.
>
>"*Multi-pronged Approach: Different target groups would need different 
>public outreach approaches.
>
>"*Tiered Targets.  Instead of a blanket press release, varied story ideas 
>should be created for a variety of target audiences.
>
>"*Direct Mail/Email: PSP publishers should consider sending direct mail 
>pieces promoting publishers; added value with their own direct mail campaigns.
>
>"*Advertising: The advertising part of the campaign should contain 
>informative messages, which PSP publishers could place in their own 
>publications.  The messages would contain a mixture of human face ads, 
>value added information, publishers promoted the worthiness of libraries, 
>and black and white ads, which would contain simple prose and be informational.
>
>"*Ally development: The PSP Awards Program could be refreshed to include 
>participation from libraries - several of the invited award judges should 
>be librarians.  Another suggestion was to create a special recognition 
>award for a librarian, which would be presented at either ALA or SLA on 
>behalf of AAP/PSP publishers."
>
>The Bulletin also details PSP's plans to deliver a PowerPoint presentation 
>of "proof points" for publishers to deliver when speaking at 
>conferences.  In addition, it states that PSP is working to generate 
>positive articles in top daily media and seeks to secure the participation 
>of the _Chronicle of Higher Education_.
>
>
>6. SPARC Consulting Group Infuses Business Experience Into
>Academic and Nonprofit Scholarly Communications Initiatives
>
>The SPARC Consulting Group (SCG) provides business, financial, and 
>strategic consulting services to universities and university presses, 
>learned societies, and other academic and nonprofit organizations. SCG 
>supports the development, launch and operation of scholarly and scientific 
>communications projects by helping make them more viable, competitive, 
>financially self-sufficient, and better equipped to serve researchers and 
>the marketplace.
>
>SCG achieves these goals by providing services that include: strategic
>advice; project feasibility and competitive analysis;  market analysis and 
>marketing planning; pricing development; conceptualization and preparation 
>of business plans, including financial plans and economic models; and 
>development of partner and vendor relationships.  SCG consultants also 
>write grant proposals, and guides and other reference resources for client 
>publication.
>
>Recent SCG clients and assignments of the SCG are varied.  For the 
>American Anthropological Association (the world's largest professional 
>society of anthropologists), SCG developed a business plan and economic 
>model to support funding of an online gateway to anthropological 
>knowledge, including the development of a digital publishing program for 
>AAA scholarly journals.  For the Open Society Institute (a private 
>grant-making foundation that promotes the development of open societies 
>throughout the world), SCG authored business planning guides to facilitate 
>the launch of new open access scholarly journals and the conversion of 
>existing journals to an open access model.  For Cornell University 
>Libraries, SCG provided advice on marketing, pricing and licensing matters 
>for the launch of Project Euclid's new aggregation of mathematics and 
>statistics journals. BioOne (a premier bioscience journals aggregation 
>produced by a not-for-profit academic/society/corporate partnership) is an 
>on-going SCG client for all business and financial matters.
>
>The SCG's two Senior Consultants, Howard Goldstein and Raym Crow, have 
>more than 40 years of combined business experience in academic and 
>professional publishing and information services.  They supplement and 
>complement a client's know-how and resources, and leverage their prior 
>work, to provide institutions and organizations with cost-effective 
>solutions to their planning and start-up needs, or mid-course assessments 
>and possible remediation.  The consultants perform as independent 
>contractors.  Fees may be on an hourly or project basis, best suited to 
>the client's requirements and budget. The initial consultation to learn of 
>an organization's project and possible needs is without charge, as is any 
>written proposal which may become the basis of a consulting contract.
>
>Recent SPARC publications prepared by SCG include:  Gaining 
>Independence:  A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic 
>Publishing Venture (Goldstein, April 2002, http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/); 
>and SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide (Crow, 
>November 2002, http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf). In addition, 
>SCG developed the Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open 
>Access Journal (Crow and Goldstein, Open Society Institute, January 2003); 
>and Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal 
>to Open Access (Crow and Goldstein, Open Society Institute, January 2003). 
>The OSI publications are available at 
>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml.
>
>For more information about the SPARC Consulting Group, see
>http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=k0 or contact Rick Johnson, 
>SPARC Enterprise Director, email:  rick@arl.org
>
>
>7. Recent books and articles of interest
>
>Meier, Michael, Dr.  "Returning Science to the Scientists: Der Umbruch im 
>STM-Zeitschriftenmarkt unter Einfluß des Electronic Publishing." Available 
>through 
>http://tel.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/22/57/index_fr.html and 
>through the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) 
>at  http://www.ndltd.org/.
>
>Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 16, no. 4, fall 2002, pps. 227-238
>"Comments: Pricing and Cost of Electronics Journals." (Exchange between 
>Elsevier's Jook Dirkmaat and economist Ted Bergstrom.)
>
>Harmon, Amy.  "New Premise in Science: Get the World Out Quickly, 
>Online."  December 17, 2002.  New York Times.
>
>Nixon, William J. and Pauline Simpson.  "At the Event: 2nd Workshop on the 
>Open Archives Initiative." Ariadne Issue 34. 
>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/geneva/.
>
>Poynder, Richard.  "A True Market Failure: Professor Mark McCabe talks 
>about problems in the STM publishing industry." Information Today, 
>December 2002. http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec02/poynder.htm
>
>Suber, Peter. "Removing the Barriers to Research:  An Introduction to Open 
>Access for Librarians," forthcoming from College & Research Libraries 64 
>(February 2003) pp. 92-94, 113.  (The online version is unabridged: 
>http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm.)
>
>
>8. Article: CARL's Institutional Repository Pilot Project
>
>CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project
>By Kathleen Shearer, Research Associate, Canadian Association of Research 
>Libraries <mkshearer@sprint.ca>
>
>The growing momentum of the open access movement is providing a foundation 
>for new models of scholarly publishing. As a member of SPARC and in of 
>support this movement, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries 
>(CARL) has begun to explore and promote some of these models in Canada. 
>Last November, CARL played host to a very successful conference, "Research 
>Innovation and Scholarship: The Role of Open Access Publishing." The 
>conference served as a forum for discussion and debate surrounding the 
>issues of open access in scholarly publishing. Those attending were 
>introduced to a number of new models being developed in Canada and 
>internationally; as well as practical and organizational issues involved 
>with their implementation. The presentations represented diverse opinions, 
>with such speakers as Jan Velterop, BioMed Central; Rick Johnson, SPARC; 
>and Pieter Bolman, Director of STM Relations at Elsevier, among a host of 
>others. Participants included university administrators, faculty, 
>librarians, academic journal editors, officers of university presses, and 
>members of Granting Councils. The power-point presentations are available 
>on the CARL website (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/meetings/other/recap-e.htm).
>
>One of conference sessions was given by members of the CARL Institutional 
>Repositories Pilot Project. Institutional repositories (IRs) adhere to the 
>open access model by centralizing and preserving the knowledge of an 
>academic institution in digital format and making it accessible to anyone 
>with Internet access. This project is an initiative to implement IRs at 
>several Canadian research libraries and will pave the way for other 
>Canadian institutions by examining the feasibility of IRs in the Canadian 
>context. There are thirteen libraries participating and the aims are to 
>facilitate discussions of lessons learned and best practices. The 
>libraries will share information and assess such aspects of IRs as 
>document types; archiving and preservation policies; software tools; 
>metadata; copyright policies; and promotion and advocacy. The ultimate 
>vision is to create a number of content-rich repositories, which are 
>interoperable and form the basis of a larger archive of Canadian research 
>output.
>
>In support of this project, CARL has created an Online Resource Portal for 
>Institutional Repositories on its website 
>(http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/ir/). Among the resources provided is "A 
>Step by Step Guide to Setting Up an Institutional Repository." The guide 
>takes the reader through the major steps necessary to implement an 
>institutional archive. It discusses issues surrounding pre-implementation, 
>implementation and post-implementation stages and provides links to 
>policies and procedures of existing e-prints and institutional 
>repositories. The site also provides numerous links to other resources 
>such as members' institutional repositories as well as other IRs and open 
>access archives in Canada and internationally; plus access to helpful 
>articles and software tools for building IRs. While the portal is intended 
>to provide members of the project with the tools they need to set-up and 
>maintain an institutional repository, CARL welcomes the public to use and 
>benefit from these resources.
>
>***
>
>(c) SPARC 2003
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>SPARC -- The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
>21 Dupont Circle, Ste. 800, Washington, DC  20036 USA
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