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There is a growing movement in the academic community to make all peer-reviwed literature available for free via the internet – this is known as Open Access http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/.
To realise Open Access requires that Academics self-archive their work in a OAI-compliant archive http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#OAI-compliance. The University of Southampton has developed an open source OAI-compliant archive piece of software called Eprints http://www.eprints.org/ that allows Acdemics to easily self-archive.
The software only runs on UNIX – there are no plans to run it under Windows.
The Authors of Eprints state that it should (does) run under Mac OS X – but to date no documentation exists to build it on this platform.
If we can get it to run under Mac OS X (and provide full documentation) then I am positive that as Open Acess is mandated by Institutions and Academic Departments more Institutions will pick up the Mac platform to run this software.
An article on how to install Eprints would be brilliant!
From their documentation it does look relatively simple to install (requires a few Perl modules)… but I don’t know much about Perl…
Many thanks,
Mike
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