Researcher focus
"Open Archiving will not get off the ground until the day I can go to a website, download open-archiving software, then say MAKE ARCHIVE, and an interoperable, OAI-compliant archive is up and running, ready to be filled".
We just made it.
Its name is Freescience. Download
it here,
install it on your own PC, get your username and password (download and
use of Freescience are completely free from any charge), and follow the
simple steps needed to share your papers.
You will instantly enter a community of hundreds of thousands researchers from the most prestigious research institutes worldwide, and they will be able to
read, appreciate and use the papers you shared as well.
As already well
demonstrated, to put online your papers (so-called self-archiving) in an OAI-PMH
compliant repository, will boost the visibility and accessibility of
your research, and hence the usage and impact of your work. Merely
publishing it provides minimal impact; also self-archiving it provides
maximal impact.
To have your own OAI-PMH compliant archive in your PC means that you can manage it at will with the highest simplicity, sharing or removing documents, changing them or their metadata and, as new features will be activated, you will be able to add attachments, comments and new versions to your papers.
