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[Stevan Harnad]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Don Gilbert wrote:

> We are adapting Eprints to archive and serve bioinformatics
> software for the biology community.  This is still in
> development, but open to public use now:
> 
> IUBio Archive of Biology Software and Data
>   http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/
>   http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biosoft (Eprints for bio-soft)
> (this redirects for now to http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7780)
> 
> We also are thinking of using Eprints to maintain science
> literature for the FlyBase Drosophila genome database
> (flybase.net)
>
> Don Gilbert IUBio archivist
> Biology Dept., Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405

Many thanks for the notification. Eprints.org has already
listed the IUBio Archive of Biology Software and Data
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:7780/ -- as well as IU's Digital
Library of the Commons http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ -- at:
http://software.eprints.org/#sites

The forthcoming flybase Archive at IU is also very good news.

Setting up the Archives is the easy part, however! The real
challenge is devising an IU policy for filling them!
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling

The IU Archives seem to be doing well in that regard too, but I have a
question: Are these Archives for IU Research output? Or are they
Archives for output for any institution? Both are of course welcome and
useful, but it is the former -- a concerted policy for self-archiving
the university's own research output -- that is the most urgently needed
today. For that policy -- mirrored reciprocally in all universities
and research institutions planet-wide -- will be what ushers in the
open-access era for us all!
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2549.html

Stevan Harnad

NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):

    http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
                            or
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html

Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum at amsci-forum.amsci.org 

See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess

the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories:
    http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm

the OAI site:
    http://www.openarchives.org

and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
    http://www.eprints.org/