The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service Across E-Print Archives

A meeting was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 21-22, 1999, to generate discussion and consensus about interoperability of publicly available scholarly information archives. The invitees represented several well known e-print and report archive initiatives, as well as organizations with interests in digital libraries and the transformation of scholarly communication. The central goal of the meeting was to agree on recommendations that would make the creation of end-user services -- such as scientific search engines and linking systems -- for data originating from distributed and dissimilar archives easier. The Universal Preprint Service (UPS) Prototype was developed in preparation for this meeting. As a proof-of-concept of a multi-discipline digital library of publicly available scholarly material, the Prototype harvested nearly 200,000 records from several different archives and created an attractive end-user environment. This paper describes the results of the project. This is done in two ways. On the one hand, the experimental end-user service that was created during the project is illustrated. On the other hand, the lessons that the project team drew from the experience of creating the Prototype are presented

A Challenge of Research Outputs in GL Circuit: From Open Access to Open Use

Open Access movement and currently formed GL circuit provide the scientific community with unique opportunity to modernize a fundamental part of research life-cycle: processes by which the scientists reuse research outputs when they produce new knowledge and then the community assesses their impact. When scientists mentally manipulate the research outputs, outcomes and other objects of scientific information space they discover relationships between the objects and thereby they reuse it to produce a new scientific knowledge. Some of these relationships become visible in scientists’ articles (e.g. by citations). Most of them are directly not observable and may exist in a mental form only. In the paper we propose an “open use” approach for the research area and discuss a practical implementation of the model within a research information system "Socionet" supported a grey literature circuit.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notesXAInternationa

The UPS Prototype project: exploring the obstacles in creating a cross-print archive end-user service", D-Lib Magazine

Heath O'Connell hoc@ slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA The Universal Preprint Service (UPS) Prototype was developed in preparation of the first meeting of the UPS initiative - later renamed the Open Archives initiative - held in Santa Fe, New Mexico October 21-22, 1999. The purpose of the meeting was to generate discussion and concensus regarding the interoperability of publicly available scholarly information archives. The invitees represented several renown e-print and report archive initiatives, as well as organizations with an interest in digital libraries and the transformation of scholarly communication. The central goal of the meeting was to agree on recommendations that would make the creation of end-user services - such as scientific search engines, recommendation systems and linking systems - for data originating from distributed and dissimilar archives easier. To facilitate the discussions, the UPS Prototype was constructed as a proof-of-concept of a multi-discipline digital library of publicly available scholarly material. The UPS Prototype harvested its nearly 200,000 records from several different archives and created an attractive end-user environment. As such, the UPS Prototype was a demonstration vehicle for other digital library technologies, such as intelligent digital objects (buckets) and reference linking services (SFX). The paper touches on their applicability in an e-print environment