An overview of GNU EPrints 2. EPrints is free software which creates a web based archive and database of scholarly output and is intended for use by a university or university department. This article contains a description of the features and design philosophy of the software including OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), internationalisation of the interface via...

This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The aDORe architecture is highly modular and standards-based. In the architecture, the MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration Language is used as the XML-based format to represent Digit...

Pre-print repositories have seen a significant increase in use over the past fifteen years across multiple research domains. Researchers are beginning to develop applications capable of using these repositories to assist the scientific community above and beyond the pure dissemination of information. The contributions set forth by this paper emphasize a deconstructed publication model in which ...

Introduction Today prominent and comprehensive databases such as Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) or Elsevier’s Scopus are highly in use for bibliometric research. However, these databases do not index full texts hindering researchers to carry out more detailed analyses. Besides, it is possible that some indexed publications do not have DOI numbers playing an important role to access full ...

Over the past fifteen years, our perspective on tackling information interoperability problems for web-based scholarship has evolved significantly. In this opinion piece, we look back at three efforts that we have been involved in that aptly illustrate this evolution: OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, and Memento. Understanding that no interoperability specification is neutral, we attempt to characterize the p...

The fabric of scholarly communication is undergoing radical change. Economic, legal, and technical tensions are straining traditional publisher and journal models. New technologies provide unexplored opportunities for new scholarly communication models. At Cornell Information Science we are exploring this problem from the perspective of social and technical interaction. Our work therefore invol...

This abstract discusses research under development aiming to create an ecosystem of entities connected to a research institution, such as its researchers and the resources produced. In particular, we are investigating ways of being able to enter metadata descriptions in a uniform way on the one hand, and to expose them in various different formats on the other. Here, we aim at supporting curren...