Steve Hitchcock Steve HitchcockPhD (Southampton) 2002, BSc Hons (Warwick) 1981
Google Scholar Citations
for Steve
Hitchcock
Publications and presentations
in ePrints Soton repository
Twitter @stevehit
Also as @jiscdatapool, @depositMO, @jisckeepit
Steve Hitchcock is a research fellow and experienced project manager who has worked on a wide range of digital information projects at the University of Southampton since 1995. His broad interest is the effect of time on digital information, with related interests in user interfaces and digital information architecture. His work spans study of the lifecycle of digital information, from creation to long-term preservation. He has been involved with important developments in open access and institutional repositories, notably the EPrints repository software and related services. Most recently he has worked on the Southampton-wide DataPool Project to introduce effective research data management across the university. As project manager Steve has been responsible for initiating new projects, writing successful proposals, building networks of external partners, communicating the work of projects, and formal reporting. Steve has been a prolific author of research papers, has written extensively for numerous project blogs, and uses other social media such as Twitter to extend the reach of projects within the community. Steve was awarded a PhD at Southampton in 2002 for work investigating the emergence of electronic and Web publishing and testing the impact of novel Web linking tools developed at Southampton with a target database of selected Web content.
Enhancing and testing repository deposit interfaces
Steve Hitchcock, David Tarrant, Les Carr
In 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012), Edinburgh, July 2012
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant
Ariadne, Issue 66, 30 January 2011
Towards smart storage for repository preservation services
S Hitchcock, D Tarrant, A Brown, B O'Steen, N Jefferies, L Carr
International Journal of Digital Curation, 5 (1), 2010. In iPRES 2008
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services
Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Jessie Hey and Leslie Carr
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 13 Number 5/6, May/June 2007
The impact of OAI-based search on access to research journal papers
Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge, Les Carr and Stevan Harnad
Serials, Vol. 16, No. 3, November 2003, 255-260
Evaluating Citebase, an open access Web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service
Steve Hitchcock, Arouna Woukeu, Tim Brody, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall and Stevan Harnad
Technical Report ECSTR-IAM03-005, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, in ECS EPrints, 19 September 2003
Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives: the Genesis of Institutional Archives and Independent Services
ARL Bimonthly Report, No. 227, April 2003.
By providing a broad overview of the structure, size and progress of full-text open access eprint archives, this list of lists is intended to assist further quantitative research on the open access eprint phenomenon. See also this updated version of the core list.
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward
Steve Hitchcock, Donna Bergmark, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Carl Lagoze and Stevan Harnad
D-Lib Magazine, Volume 8 Number 10, October 2002
Story of the Open Citation Project, intertwined with the concurrent emergence of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).
How Dynamic E-journals can Interconnect Open Access Archives
Steve Hitchcock and Wendy Hall
ICCC/IFIP 5th Conference on Electronic Publishing - ELPUB2001, Canterbury, UK, July 2001
First paper describing the motivations and functionality of Perspectives in Electronic Publishing, a new model electronic journal providing access to hundreds of full-text papers, commented and interlinked.
Developing
Services for Open Eprint Archives: Globalisation, Integration and the Impact
of Links
Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr, Zhuoan Jiao, Donna Bergmark, Wendy Hall,
Carl Lagoze and Stevan Harnad
5th ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, San Antonio, Texas,
June 2000
The first paper produced by the Open Citation project, and somewhat
ahead of the major results we hope to produce, the paper explores the prospects
for combining a number of powerful reference linking tools to have emerged
recently with some preliminary results. More significantly, perhaps, the
paper considers the convergence of information environments created by
digital libraries through the means of reference linking. As usual, some
provocative comments on how we might improve access to refereed papers.
A
Usage based Analysis of CoRR
A commentary on "CoRR: a Computing Research Repository" by Joseph Y.
Halpern
Les Carr, Steve Hitchcock, Wendy Hall and Stevan Harnad
ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation, May 2000
An invited response to an original paper by Halpern. We focus on the
innovative features of CoRR in terms of eprint archives, and try to explain
why it has yet to make the anticipated impact in terms of the number of
submissions the archive attracts. This analysis is based on a comparison
of submission figures for CoRR with those for the same initial stages of
the Los Alamos physics eprint archives. To succeed CoRR will need to build
stronger support within its target community.
Linking
Electronic Journals: Lessons from the Open Journal Project
Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Steve Harris, Steve Probets,
David Evans and David Brailsford
D-Lib Magazine, December 1998
The concluding paper on the Open Journal project. Assessing the achievements
of the project and considering some of the difficulties it faced, the paper
reports on the different approaches to linking that the project developed,
and summarises the important user responses that indicate what works and
what does not. Looking ahead, the paper reveals the first signs of moves
towards "distributed" journals, where information may be shared and documents
are built dynamically from different sources.
and a related paper
E-PRINT! Making
the Most of Electronic Journals
Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr and Wendy Hall
on The Computing Research Repository (CoRR)-part of the e-print archive
at Los Alamos, December 1998
Making the most of e-journals requires that a distinctive new publishing
model is developed. The paper presents evidence of a broadening demand
for comprehensive linked archives, raising questions about the common practice
of exclusive publication of most journal papers. Whether viewed from the
perspective of Open Journals or that of prospective e-journal users more
generally, we found the needs of the new publishing system for electronic
dissemination of academic papers to be the same; and the limitations of
the current system a severe constraint.
REVISED! Towards
Universal Linking for Electronic Journals
Steve Hitchcock, Freddie Quek, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall, Andrew Witbrock
and Ian Tarr
Serials Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1998) 21-33
This is an updated and revised version of Linking
Everything to Everything: Journal Publishing Myth or Reality? which
was first presented at the ICCC/IFIP conference on Electronic Publishing
‘97: New Models and Opportunities, Canterbury, UK, April 1997.
Citation linking appears to be a straightforward concept but it is
enormously powerful. Coauthored with the publisher Electronic Press, the
paper anticipates the most demanding requirements for citation linking
and examines them in a real publishing context, describing hypermedia approaches
that can support this level of complexity.
Web Journals Publishing:
a UK Perspective
Steve Hitchcock, Leslie Carr and Wendy Hall
Serials, Vol. 10, No. 3, November 1997, 285-299
First presented at the 20th annual conference of the UK Serials
Group in Edinburgh, April 1997, and since published in the Group's
journal.
The popularity of the Web has accelerated the development of scholarly
e-journals since 1996. This new survey, realising a different perspective
from 'The Calm Before the Storm' (below), traces developments in the UK
from two schemes funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils: the Pilot
Site Licence Initiative and its dramatic effect on all journal publishers
in the UK, and the Electronic Libraries (eLib) development programme.
Citation Linking:
Improving Access to Online Journals
S. Hitchcock, L. Carr, S. Harris, J. M. N. Hey and W. Hall
presented at the Second ACM International Conference on Digital
Libraries, Philadelphia, USA, July 1997.
Now that most major publishers are committed to making their primary
journals available online, citation linking is the coming feature in journal
publishing. This paper says what it is, how and where it is happening and
presents a novel example.
ARL E-publishing article of the year 1996
A Survey
of STM Online Journals 1990-95: the Calm Before the Storm
Steve Hitchcock, Leslie Carr and Wendy Hall
in Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion
Lists, edited by D. Mogge, sixth edition, 1996 (Washington, D.C.: Association
of Research Libraries), pp. 7-32.
An extensive survey and analysis of the state of electronic journal
publishing at the end of 1995, with links to over 100 full-text, peer-reviewed
journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine (STM).
ADDED! Citations
of this survey by other online sources. Where is current interest in
electronic journals heading? See this list for some pointers.
And a cautionary note:
The URL of this page is