Re: Response to Goodman's comment on librarians

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

Janellyn P Kleiner writes

> One of our biggest challenges today is identifying and evaluating the
> new resources and open access titles available on the Internet. And yes,
> we do have the directories & bibliographies citing such titles but these
> are dated as soon as they are compiled. Managing the array of electronic
> resources has become increasingly complex and demands considerable
> expertise.

I wonder if it is not more sensible for such management to be conducted in
a collaborative fashion between libraries rather than having each of them
doing all the work be themselves, duplicating efforts.

One example I am developing right now, is a system that finds early,
freely available version of computers science papers on the web. The
system is mostly automated. Here is an example page

http://wotan.liu.edu/docis/show?doc=dbl/aicomm/2001_14_3_129_AASFTP.html

All this data is freely available, if anyone would like to work with it
please contact me.

Cheers,

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