RE: E-Journal overlays (was: Authors and OA)

["Richard Poynder" <aotg20@dsl.pipex.com>]

The links below may be of interest in the context of overlay/ deconstructed/
disaggregated journals:

http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/papers/jwts/d-journal.htm
http://arxiv.org/blurb/pg02pr.html
http://www.library.yale.edu/scilib/modmodexplain.html

The SPARC position paper (The Case for Institutional Repositories) also
discusses the model and is perhaps the most recent document to do so?
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html

Richard Poynder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu 
> Sent: 17 July 2004 14:04
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: E-Journal overlays (was: Authors and OA)
> 
> In response to Brian's message:  If one searches the liblicense-l
> archives (from the web site, at:  <www.library.yale.edu/~llicense> for
> the word "overlay," one gets a return of a posting entitled
> International "Learned Journals Seminar" Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999
> 19:50:03.
> 
> Part of the seminar's agenda reads:
> 
> o The journal as an overlay on preprint databases:  Bob Kelly, 
> American Physical Society
> 
> This talk will describe the proposed integration of Physical 
> Review articles, from 1893 onwards, with physics literature in 
> electronic preprint archives ("e-prints") along with 
> databases and electronic books. Recognising the value of e-prints, 
> the APS makes bibliographic information (Title, Author and Abstract) 
> freely available on the WWW for browsing and as a target for linking. 
> This bibliographic information is referred to as the "wrapper," 
> and is the focal point for access to the article and for
> APS article connections to other databases, including e-prints.
> 
> Now, it's not quite what Brian proposes, but my recollection is that a
> few years back, the validation of articles in eprint sites was indeed a
> topic of discussion.  I'm not sure how far the idea has advanced
> meanwhile or where or what lists to troll for it, but perhaps others on
> liblicense-l can help out.  Ann Okerson/Yale Library
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Brian Simboli wrote:
> 
> > A question about below.
> > 
> > Couldn't there be a credentialling body for a specific subject that 
> > would give the "seal of approval" for selected articles in 
> > institutional archives? So an article in an institutional repository 
> > could be labelled "this article has received the xyz seal of 
> > approval", where xyz is say a society committee, or an editorial 
> > board along traditional lines. The institutional repositories could be 
> > centralized for long-standing and stable consortia, such that faculty 
> > at member institutions in that consortium could submit articles to the 
> > centralized repository. It would be up to the author to get the seal 
> > of approval from xyz. 

[SNIP]

> > Brian Simboli