Open Archives Seminar

Facilitating free and efficient scientific communication

At the occasion of the launch of a new global eprints search service, the
Preprint search project of the E-Publications Committee of the Danish Electronic Research Library (DEF),
invites the interested public to a seminar on:
 
Wednesday 18 February 2004 at the Technical University of Denmark, Building 101

Program

10:30-11:00 Registration and morning coffee
11:00-11:30 Welcome - introduction, Open Access, serials crisis, ...
Knut Conradsen, Vice-rector, DTU and Mogens Sandfær, DTU
PDF Powerpoint
11:30-12:00 The Open Archives Initiative - origin, mission, protocol, players, achievements and perspectives
Simeon Warner, Open Archives Initiative
PDF Powerpoint
12:00-12:30 Light lunch sponsored by DEF

Presenting Data Providers: Why, how, experiences, perspectives

12:30-13:00 Organic Eprints - the DK-based open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture
Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe, Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming
PDF Powerpoint
13:00-13:30 ArXiv, the US-based e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
Simeon Warner, Cornell University
PDF Powerpoint
13:30-14:00 Coffee

Presenting Service Providers: Why, how, experiences, perspectives

14:00-14:30 OAIster - the US-based search service for freely available, academically-oriented digital resources world-wide
Kat Hagedorn, University of Michigan
PDF Powerpoint
14:30-15:00 New DK-based search services - developed at DTU and sponsored by the Danish Electronic Research Library
Liv Fugl, Mogens Sandfær & Hans Mikkelsen, DTU - Technical University of Denmark
PDF Powerpoint
15:00-15:10 Official launch of the new DEF Eprints Search Service
15:10-15:30 Discussion and close