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try scirus. it's also from elsevier and, i believe, supplies the oa feeds for scopus.
bq
-----Original Message-----
>From: "N. Miradon" <nmiradon_at_YAHOO.FR>
>Sent: May 26, 2008 2:48 AM
>To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
>Subject: Browsing OA archives and IRs
>
>I've just discovered Scopus, "the world~Rs largest abstract and citation
>database of research literature and quality web sources" [0].
>
>Scopus offers a very nice interface to browse the literature; e.g. to search
>for papers, to follow along backwards from each paper to its references, or
>forwards from each paper to the papers that cite it, to output the results
>in RIF etc format, to download the pdfs, etc etc.
>
>But although Scopus covers over 500 OA journals, you can only get into
>Scopus if your institution has taken out a Scopus subscription.
>
>Question - does a similar facility exist for browsing OA archives and IRs? I
>couldn't find anything in "Eprints.org Software: a Review" or in "A Guide to
>Institutional Repository Software" [1,2].
>
>And if scOApus does _not_ exist, how much coding effort would be required to
>at least make a start? Could a Google Summer of Code make a first step?
>
>i.e. What are we waiting for?
>
>N Miradon
>
>[0] http://www.scopus.com
>
>[1] http://caltechlib.library.caltech.edu/15/00/SPARC-EprintsReview.pdf
>via
>http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind08&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=37137
>
>[2] http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_IR_Software_v3.pdf
>http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_IR_Software_Table_v3.pdf
barbara quint
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Received on Mon May 26 2008 - 13:07:46 BST