A Feasibility Study for a National Science Foundation Open-Access Publication Repository

摘要：该提案的重点是为建立开放获取的国家科学基金会（NSF）出版物储存库进行可行性研究。 具体来说，约翰霍普金斯大学将与图书馆和信息资源理事会（CLIR）和密歇根大学（UM）一起评估几种方法的技术、政策和商业影响，这些方法包括开发新系统、采用和定制分布式技术以及联合机构知识库网络等。 这一可行性研究的结果将有助于更好地描述和告知决策者当前关于这一主题的对话在技术和经济方面的相对优势和劣势，并进一步解决社区范围内关于未来开放获取知识库的功能性质和设计的遗留问题。 这一可行性研究同样将处理一系列具有挑战性的活动，这些活动涉及通过共同管理和基础设施架构，整合传统共享的数据和开放源码电子出版系统。

Abstract: This proposal focuses on conducting a feasibility study for the institution of an open access National Science Foundation (NSF) publication repository. Specifically, the Johns Hopkins University, in conjunction with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the University of Michigan (UM) will evaluate the technical, policy, and business implications of several approaches that range in options from developing a new system to adopting and customizing distributed technologies to federating a network of institutional repositories. The outcome of this feasibility study will help to better characterize and inform decision makers on the relative strengths and weaknesses for both the technological and economic dimensions characterizing current dialogues on the subject and to further address lingering questions, community wide, about the functional nature and designs for future open access repositories. This feasibility study will similarly address a challenging set of activities pertaining to the integration of traditionally shared data and open-source electronic publishing systems through shared stewardship and infrastructure architectures.