Interoperability Standards

CDSware
An OAI-compliant software for document servers developed at CERN and licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Allows institutions to build their own electronic library and to make it accessible on the web. Features, support, download area.
http://cdsware.cern.ch/

Cross Archive Searching Service
(ARC) Experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old Dominion University. It is used to investigate issues in harvesting Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant repositories and making them accessible through a unified search interface.
http://arc.cs.odu.edu/

DSpace
An Open Archive Initiative (OAI) - compliant open-source software released by MIT for archiving eprints and other kinds of academic content. Mission, policy, technical features, implementations.
http://www.dspace.org/

MAGiC Project
An initiative aiming to establish a new collaborative system for the collection, storage and utilisation of engineering grey literature.
http://www.magic.ac.uk/

Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archive community. Promotion of interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the dissemination of content, by enhancing access to e-print archives. Online documents, links and forums.
http://www.openarchives.org/

The Open Citation Project
OpCit. Project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, whose aim is to develop a citation-linking system to navigate through Open Archives.
http://opcit.eprints.org/

Open Language Archives Community
Worldwide network of language archives developing standard protocols for interoperability.
http://www.language-archives.org/

The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative
A set of relatively simple but potentially quite powerful interoperability agreements that facilitate the creation of mediator services. These services combine and process information from individual archives and offer increased functionality to support discovery, presentation and analysis of data originating from compliant archives.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-oai/02vandesompel-oai.html

University of Illinois Metadata Harvesting Project
A suite of Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-based metadata harvesting services, search services, and tools designed to facilitate discovery and retrieval of certain classes of scholarly works.
http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/

Virtual Library
Free web-based system to build, manage and maintain efficiently medium to large collections of links and their meta information. It provides advanced full-text search capabilities as well as uniform access via categories to information on the Internet.
http://vu.wu-wien.ac.at/virlib/

Electronic Publishing in Science
Proceedings of the second international conference organized by the International Council for Science and UNESCO on issues related to electronic dissemination of scientific works. <small>(February 20, 2001)</small>
http://eos.wdcb.ru/eps2/root4.html

Economics, Real Costs and Benefits of Electronic Publishing in Science
Proceedings of the workshop organized by the International Council for Science and held at Keble College, Oxford in march-april 1998. <small>(March 31, 1998)</small>
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/

Electronic Publishing in Science:
Proceedings of the first conference held in Paris and organized by the International Council for Science and UNESCO. <small>(February 19, 1996)</small>
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/icsu/wedge.htm