The hprints Newsletter

The hprints Newsletter

About hprints

The hprints project aims at providing Open Access to research within the arts and humanities. We, the project consortium, believe that this will result in a number of advantages with respect to the electronic accessibility and visibility of the arts and humanities research area. The initial aim is to make Nordic research available through an Open Access online electronic full text archive. The archive will contain research e-prints in the form of preprints, reprints, working papers, book chapters, conference reports, invited lecture manuscripts etc. Submissions of electronic text material to the archive will be decentral and take place at the individual researcher, or research group level.

hprints presented at Seminar on Open Access

NewsPosted by Bertil Dorch 08 Nov, 2007 21:02
On Thursday November 29th, the hprints project and its status will be presented at the 2007 Copenhagen University Library seminar on Open Access.

hprints' PI, Drs. Bertil Dorch, and Marco Picco from CNRS will present hprints and HAL to the seminar participants. Currently over 70 people have signed up for the seminar, which takes place in The Black Dimond, the danish Royal Library's main building in central Copenhagen.

While most of the participants are from Denmark, the seminar talks will be held in English: Additional talks are by Jens Vigen from CERN who will talk about the SCOAP3 project and partical approaches to Open Access - and Frank Scholtze from University of Stuttgart, representing the DFG and the German DINI project.

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Collaboration with CNRS

NewsPosted by Bertil Dorch 29 Oct, 2007 10:51
At the hprints Advisory Board meeting this friday, October 26th, it was decided to collaborate with the french research council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Hence, the hprints e-print archive for Nordic arts and humanities will be set up as Nordic HAL portal with its own layout and adapted to the requirements of hprints.

Nordbib project P.I. Bertil Dorch from the Royal Library in Denmark says "The tasks before us now is to setup the portal and create a working repository. But also we're going to look into how to communicate the archive to the Nordic humanities community and the researchers, how best to do the outreach and all those important issues."

More to come later...

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A choice to be made

NewsPosted by Bertil Dorch 18 Oct, 2007 15:36

On Friday October 26th 2007, the Advisory Board of the Nordbib "hprints project", will choose the system to be used for the Nordic arts and humanities e-print archive. The battle is between the three alternatives: EPrints from University from the University of Southampton, LUR from Lund University Libraries, and HAL from the French national research council (CNRS). Both EPrints and LUR are free Open Source softwares that can be setup locally e.g. in Copenhagen or hosted commercially, while HAL is a working archive, to which a Nordic portal can be setup.

Stay tuned to learn the result of the meeting... Check out also the hprints webpages at http://www.hprints.org

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