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<font size=3>Working with the publishers sounds like a great idea.
We could each approach the publishers most important for our
repositories, i.e. MIT could go after IEEE. And once we have some
publishers who are willing to work with us we could list them in a
registry on dspace.org. <br>
Of course, not all publishers will think this is a great idea :-), but we
can start with the cooperative ones and see how far we get.<br><br>
Margret Branschofsky<br><br>
DSpace User Support Manager<br>
Digital Library Research Group<br>
Bldg. 14S-M24<br>
(617)253-1293<br>
margretb@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://dspace.mit.edu<br><br>
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</a>At 05:25 PM 5/5/2004 -0400, Michael Leach wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Folks,<br><br>
The Harvard Science Libraries will be launching a
pilot institutional repository using DSpace this summer. We are
actively looking at solutions that will gather articles and other digital
objects at the creation stage in our communities.<br>
One avenue we are examining is the development of
author tools that will capture the relevant digital object (e.g. research
article) as a given faculty member, grad student, post doc, etc. is
preparing to submit the article to any given publisher. Picture one
such tool--a web-based form that is customized by the author and contains
those publishers/journals he/she regularly submits to. On this form
is a radio button (default--checked) that asks if the author wants the
preprint deposited into the institutional repository as it is sent off to
review. The form could also have options for sending the article
off to any given preprint server as well (e.g. ArXiv). The author
makes the relevant choices on the form, clicks once, and the article is
sent off to the various parties.<br>
Are any of you developing such a tool or
tools? Similarly, have any of you approached potential publishers
to help in the development of such tools? Obviously, I don't wish
to reinvent the wheel, and this email archive did not show any previous
posting along these lines (unless I missed it). Of course, if
anyone is interested in collaborating, please let me know. I have already
initiated talks with publishers in the physics and biomedical fields on
this topic.<br>
Thanks.<br><br>
Michael<br><br>
Michael R. Leach<br>
Harvard University, Kummel Library of Geological Sciences & Physics
Research Library<br>
617-495-2878 or -2029 (voice); leach@eps.harvard.edu or
mrleach@fas.harvard.edu<br><br>
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