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Eprint Archives - Reaching Critical Mass?

Weaver, Belinda (2002-11-01) Eprint Archives - Reaching Critical Mass?. Online Currents, 17 9: 4-8.

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Author(s) Weaver, Belinda
Title Eprint Archives - Reaching Critical Mass?
Journal name Online Currents
Publication date 2002-11-01
Volume number 17
Issue number 9
ISSN 0816-956X
Start page 4
End page 8
Total pages 5
Editor(s) Drynan, Elizabeth
Place of publication Roseville, NSW
Publisher Enterprise Information Management
Collection year 2002
Subject 400302 Archival Studies
CX
280103 Information Storage, Retrieval and Management
700201 Library and related information services
Abstract Universities produce varying amounts of research each year. Yet finding much of that vast output can be problematical. Research findings are scattered across scores of different disciplines, in a range of different scholarly publications or collections of conference papers. Access to such material may be allowed to subscribers only. This limits the availability of research and thus limits its usefulness. If people cannot see results, they cannot build on them. This is one of the problems that e-print archives developed to solve. The aim of an open archive is to make research freely available, in full text, for anyone to use. Some higher education institutions, both abroad and now here in Australia, are beginning to see the value of such archives as a way of showcasing their research in a single, central, searchable space.
Keyword(s) Digital archives
ePrints
preprints
postprints
scholarly publishing
digital repositories
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