links for 2008-09-06
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"Having always been at the forefront of information management and open access, High-Energy Physics (HEP) proves to be an ideal test-bed for innovations in scholarly communication including new information and communication technologies. Three selected topics of scholarly communication in High-Energy Physics are presented here: A new open access business model, SCOAP3, a world-wide sponsoring consortium for peer-reviewed HEP literature; the design, development and deployment of an e-infrastructure for information management; and the emerging debate on long-term preservation, re-use and (open) access to HEP data.[…]"
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"High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System
Hamburg, Germany – The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have announced that they will join to build INSPIRE, the next-generation High Energy Physics (HEP) information system, which will empower scientists with innovative tools for successful research at the dawn of an era of new discoveries[…]"
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Information systems in HEP get INSPIREd. CERN Computer Newsletter Vol. 42 Issue 2, April–June 2008"[…]The SPIRES collaboration and the CDS-Invenio open-source community are joining forces to build INSPIRE, a new HEP information portal, which will integrate present databases and repositories to host the entire body of the HEP literature, aiming to become the reference HEP scientific information platform worldwide. It will empower scientists with new tools to discover and access the results most relevant to their research, enable novel text- and data-mining applications, and deploy new metrics to assess the impact of articles and authors. In addition, it will introduce the Web 2.0 paradigm of user-enriched content in the domain of sciences with community-based approaches to the peer-review process. INSPIRE represents a natural evolution of scholarly communication built on successful community-based information systems, and it provides a vision for information management in other fields of science.[…]"