JournalServer

JournalServer is an Oxford-based international initiative to create a digital library of academic journals freely available to the public. It involves the collaboration of several leading universities across the world.

As of May, 2007, there were 8 journals listed, of which only 5 had any actual content available. The website officially closed in 2009.

Background information

JournalServer assists peer-reviewed academic journals to be accessible free of cost, and to promote the use of these journals by the international community. The project objectives are:

History

The initiative was formed in the summer of 2001 with the support of the University of Oxford, BITS Pilani and the National Science Council of Taiwan, with seed-funding from the AIT Trust based in Imperial College London. JournalServer.org is registered as a non-profit corporation in the state of New York since August 2002.

Technology

The search engine is being developed by a project team at Centre for Software Development, BITS Pilani, India.

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, August 09, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.